Lexic.us

Definition of Shift

1. Noun. An event in which something is displaced without rotation.

2. Verb. Make a shift in or exchange of. "First Joe led; then we switched"

3. Verb. Change place or direction. "Shift one's position"

4. Noun. A qualitative change.

5. Verb. Move around. "Transfer the packet from his trouser pockets to a pocket in his jacket"

6. Noun. The time period during which you are at work.

7. Verb. Move very slightly. "The streets shift with crowds"; "He shifted in his seat"

8. Noun. The act of changing one thing or position for another. "His switch on abortion cost him the election"

9. Verb. Move from one setting or context to another. "Shift one's attention"

10. Noun. The act of moving from one place to another. "His constant shifting disrupted the class"

11. Verb. Change in quality. "His tone shifted"

12. Noun. (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other. "He studied the faulting of the earth's crust"

13. Verb. Move and exchange for another. "Shift the date for our class reunion"

14. Noun. A crew of workers who work for a specific period of time.

15. Verb. Move sideways or in an unsteady way. "The ship careened out of control"

16. Noun. The key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters.

17. Verb. Move abruptly. "The ship suddenly lurched to the left"

18. Noun. A woman's sleeveless undergarment.

19. Noun. A loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist.

20. Verb. Use a shift key on a keyboard. "She could not shift so all her letters are written in lower case"

21. Verb. Change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change. "Grimm showed how the consonants shifted"

22. Verb. Change gears. "You have to shift when you go down a steep hill"

23. Verb. Lay aside, abandon, or leave for another. "The car changed lanes"

Definition of Shift

1. v. t. To divide; to distribute; to apportion.

2. v. i. To divide; to distribute.

3. n. The act of shifting.

Definition of Shift

1. Noun. (computing) A modifier key whose main function is shifting between two or more functions of any of certain other keys (usually by pressing Shift and the other button simultaneously). ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To change, swap. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) to move from one place to another; to redistribute. ¹

4. Verb. (intransitive) to change position. ¹

5. Verb. (obsolete transitive) To change (one's clothes); also to change (someone's) underclothes. ¹

6. Verb. (intransitive) To change gears (in a car). ¹

7. Verb. (transitive computing) to manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate ¹

8. Verb. (transitive computing) to remove the first value from an array. ¹

9. Verb. (transitive) to dispose of. ¹

10. Verb. (intransitive) to hurry. ¹

11. Verb. (Ireland vulgar slang) to engage in sexual petting. ¹

12. Noun. (historical) a type of women's undergarment, a slip ¹

13. Noun. a change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time ¹

14. Noun. an act of shifting; a slight movement or change ¹

15. Noun. (American English) the gear mechanism in a motor vehicle ¹

16. Noun. (alternative spelling of Shift the modifier button of computer keyboards) ¹

17. Noun. (computing) a bit shift ¹

18. Noun. (baseball) The infield shift. ¹

19. Noun. (context: Ireland crude slang often with the definite article usually uncountable) The act of sexual petting. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shift

1. to move from one position to another [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Shift

1. 1. The act of shifting. Specifically: The act of putting one thing in the place of another, or of changing the place of a thing; change; substitution. "My going to Oxford was not merely for shift of air." (Sir H. Wotton) A turning from one thing to another; hence, an expedient tried in difficalty; often, an evasion; a trick; a fraud. "Reduced to pitiable shifts." "I 'll find a thousand shifts to get away." (Shak) "Little souls on little shifts rely." (Dryden) 2. Something frequently shifted; especially, a woman's under-garment; a chemise. 3. The change of one set of workmen for another; hence, a spell, or turn, of work; also, a set of workmen who work in turn with other sets; as, a night shift. 4. In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc, that are placed in courses so as to break joints. 5. A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault. 6. A change of the position of the hand on the finger board, in playing the violin. To make shift, to contrive or manage in an exigency. "I shall make shift to go without him." "[They] made a shift to keep their own in Ireland." (Milton) Origin: Cf. Icel skipti. See Shift. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shift

shieldtail shieldtails shieldwise shieled shieling shielings shiels shier shiers shies

shies away shies away from shiest shiesty shife shift gears shift key shift keys shift lever shift register

shift to the left shift to the right shift work shifta shiftable shiftas shifted shifted maxwellian

Literary usage of Shift

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Who's Minding the Kids: Child Care Arrangements Fall 1991 by Lynne W. Casper (1994)
"Children Under 5 Cared for in Their Own Home, by Parents' shift-Work Status: ... Both work non-days Care by father Split-shift schedules employed is much ..."

2. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"The first tentative advances towards the adoption of the • shift ' took the form ... Beyond a doubt, many professional violinists could shift in the first ..."

3. OECD Environmental Performance Reviews by OECD., Lorents G. (FRW) Lorentsen, OECD Staff (2004)
"Box 5.2 Green tax shift The 2000 spring finance hill introduced an environmental tax reform called the green tax shift: a reallocation of taxes from labour ..."

4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: In by Sandford Nevile, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, William Montagu Manning (1839)
"The pit in which the pauper was employed some- Inhabitants of times worked single shift and sometimes double shift. The pauper worked from the said 5th ..."

5. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"shift, the time of working for one day where sets of men (shifts) relieve each other. In a colliery the first period of working is called the fore-shift and ..."

6. Mineral Deposits by Waldemar Lindgren (1913)
"The word "shift" is used to denote the relative displacements of the rock ... The shift, or net shift, is the maximum relative displacement of points on ..."

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