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shift
English
- 🔊 the act of moving from one place to another“his constant shifting disrupted the class”
- 🔊 an event in which something is displaced without rotation
- 🔊 a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time
- 🔊 the time period during which you are at work
- 🔊 the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters
- 🔊 the act of changing one thing or position for another“his switch on abortion cost him the election”
- 🔊 a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
- 🔊 a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- 🔊 a qualitative change
- 🔊 (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other“they built it right over a geological fault”
- 🔊 move and exchange for another“shift the date for our class reunion”
- 🔊 change gears“you have to shift when you go down a steep hill”
- 🔊 move from one setting or context to another“shift the emphasis”
- 🔊 change in quality“His tone shifted”
- 🔊 change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change“Grimm showed how the consonants shifted”
- 🔊 use a shift key on a keyboard“She could not shift so all her letters are written in lower case”
- 🔊 change place or direction“Shift one's position”
- 🔊 lay aside, abandon, or leave for another“switch to a different brand of beer”
- 🔊 move very slightly“He shifted in his seat”
- 🔊 move around“transfer the packet from his trouser pockets to a pocket in his jacket”
- 🔊 make a shift in or exchange of“First Joe led; then we switched”
- 🔊 move abruptly“The ship suddenly lurched to the left”
- 🔊 move sideways or in an unsteady way“The ship careened out of control”
Spanish
- 🔊 tanda shift
- 🔊 mover to shift
- 🔊 mayús shift, shift key
- 🔊 tecla mayús shift, shift key
- 🔊 transición shift, changeover, switchover