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shift
[ shift ]
verb (used with object)
- to put (something) aside and replace it by another or others; change or exchange:
to shift friends;
to shift ideas.
Synonyms:
- to transfer from one place, position, person, etc., to another:
to shift the blame onto someone else.
- Automotive. to change (gears) from one ratio or arrangement to another.
- Linguistics. to change in a systematic way, especially phonetically.
verb (used without object)
- to move from one place, position, direction, etc., to another.
- to manage to get along or succeed by oneself.
- to get along by indirect methods; use any expediency, trick, or evasion to get along or succeed:
He shifted through life.
- to change gears in driving an automobile.
- Linguistics. to undergo a systematic, especially phonetic, change.
- to press a shift key, as on a typewriter keyboard.
- Archaic. to change one's clothes.
noun
- a change or transfer from one place, position, direction, person, etc., to another:
a shift in the wind.
- a person's scheduled period of work, especially the portion of the day scheduled as a day's work when a shop, service, office, or industry operates continuously during both the day and night:
She prefers the morning shift.
- a group of workers scheduled to work during such a period:
The night shift reported.
- Baseball. a notable repositioning by several fielders to the left or the right of their normal playing position, an occasional strategy against batters who usually hit the ball to the same side of the field.
- Automotive. a gearshift.
- Clothing.
- a straight, loose-fitting dress worn with or without a belt.
- a woman's chemise or slip.
- Football. a lateral or backward movement from one position to another, usually by two or more offensive players just before the ball is put into play.
- Mining. a dislocation of a seam or stratum; fault.
- Music. a change in the position of the left hand on the fingerboard in playing a stringed instrument.
- Linguistics.
- a change or system of parallel changes that affects the sound structure of a language, as the series of related changes in the English vowel system from Middle English to Modern English.
- a change in the meaning or use of a word. Compare functional shift.
- an expedient; ingenious device.
Synonyms: , ,
- an evasion, artifice, or trick.
Synonyms: , , ,
- change or substitution.
- Bridge. shift bid.
- Agriculture. (in crop rotation)
- any of successive crops.
- the tract of land used.
- an act or instance of using the shift key, as on a typewriter keyboard.
shift
/ ʃɪ´Ú³Ù /
verb
- to move or cause to move from one place or position to another
- tr to change for another or others
- to change (gear) in a motor vehicle
- intr (of a sound or set of sounds) to alter in a systematic way
- intr to provide for one's needs (esp in the phrase shift for oneself )
- intr to proceed by indirect or evasive methods
- to remove or be removed, esp with difficulty
no detergent can shift these stains
- slang.intr to move quickly
- tr computing to move (bits held in a store location) to the left or right
noun
- the act or an instance of shifting
- a group of workers who work for a specific period
- the period of time worked by such a group
- an expedient, contrivance, or artifice
- the displacement of rocks, esp layers or seams in mining, at a geological fault
- an underskirt or dress with little shaping
Derived Forms
- ˈ²õ³ó¾±´Ú³Ù±ð°ù, noun
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ²õ³ó¾±´Ú³Ùi²Ô²µÂ·±ô²â adverb
- ²õ³ó¾±´Ú³Ùi²Ô²µÂ·²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
- ¾±²Ôt±ð°ù·²õ³ó¾±´Ú³Ùi²Ô²µ adjective
- °ù±ð·²õ³ó¾±´Ú³Ù verb
- ³Ù°ù²¹²Ô²õ·²õ³ó¾±´Ú³Ù verb
- ³Ü²Ô·²õ³ó¾±´Ú³Ùi²Ô²µ adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of shift1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of shift1
Idioms and Phrases
- shift gears. gear ( def 19 ).
Example Sentences
Ms Gavin does not believe that Agoa is now a priority given the global upheaval Trump's drastic and unpredictable policy shifts have created.
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La. – who voted down the measure on reversing Canada duties – told CNN that the president’s calculation that tariffs would shift manufacturing back in the long run wasn’t a safe bet.
She told police her husband's long hours and shifts meant they had been "strangers in the night" and it had not been difficult to hide her growing bump by wearing baggy clothing.
She did not tell her husband, Neil Sharkey, describing their relationship at the time as like "ships in the night" due to his shift patterns.
It's the latest example of big shifts in stock markets making the news, whether they are booms or falls.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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