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Defenition of the word shift

    • Defenition of the word shift

      • To change the position of something or someone.
      • To move slightly.
      • move sideways or in an unsteady way, as of a ship or a vehicle out of control
      • a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
      • a woman's sleeveless undergarment
      • move abruptly
      • a group of workers who work for a specific period of time
      • "shift the date"
      • move from one setting or context to another; "shift the emphasis"; "shift one's attention"
      • change in quality; "His tone shifted"
      • change place or direction; "Shift one's position"
      • an event in which something is displaced without rotation
      • the act of moving from one place to another
      • the time period during which you are at work
      • move very slightly; "He shifted in his seat"
      • make a shift in or exchange of; "First Joe led; then we switched"
      • lay aside, abandon, or leave for another; "switch to a different brand of beer"; "She switched psychiatrists"; "The car changed lanes"
      • the act of changing one thing or position for another; "his switch on abortion cost him the election"
      • move around; "transfer the packet from his trouser pockets to a pocket in his jacket"
      • a qualitative change
      • the act of moving from one place to another; "his constant shifting disrupted the class"
      • a woman''s sleeveless undergarment
      • (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"; "shift one''s attention"
      • 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 ther letters are written in lower case"
      • move abruptly; "The ship suddenly lurched to the left"
      • change place or direction; "Shift one''s position"
      • move sideways or in an unsteady way; "The ship careened out of control"
      • the act of changing one thing or position for another
      • the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters
      • a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time
      • (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
      • make a shift in or exchange of
      • move and exchange for another
      • lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
      • change gears
      • move from one setting or context to another
      • change in quality
      • change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change
      • use a shift key on a keyboard
      • change place or direction
      • move sideways or in an unsteady way
      • move very slightly
      • move around

    Synonyms for the word shift

      • agitate
      • alter
      • alteration
      • budge
      • careen
      • change
      • change over
      • chemise
      • dislodge
      • displacement
      • duty period
      • get rid of
      • lift
      • loosen
      • lurch
      • modification
      • modify
      • move
      • period
      • pitch
      • reallocate
      • remove
      • reposition
      • sack
      • scheduled time
      • shifting
      • shimmy
      • slip
      • spell
      • stint
      • stir
      • sway
      • swing
      • switch
      • switching
      • teddies
      • teddy
      • tilt
      • transfer
      • transferal
      • transformation
      • transmutation
      • turn
      • turn around
      • wobble
      • work shift

    Similar words in the shift

      • shift
      • shiftier
      • shiftiest
      • shiftily
      • shiftiness
      • shiftiness's
      • shiftless
      • shiftlessness
      • shifty

    Meronymys for the word shift

      • shoulder strap
      • strap
      • workday
      • working day

    Hyponyms for the word shift

      • advance
      • amplitude
      • back
      • beat down
      • betterment
      • break
      • bunker
      • carry
      • carry forward
      • carry over
      • changeover
      • channel-surf
      • conversion
      • cut
      • day shift
      • day watch
      • degeneration
      • Denali Fault
      • diphthongise
      • diphthongize
      • evening shift
      • go
      • graveyard shift
      • improvement
      • inclined fault
      • jump
      • leap
      • luxation
      • night shift
      • population shift
      • pyrolysis
      • relay
      • remove
      • retrogression
      • San Andreas Fault
      • sea change
      • shift
      • shuffle
      • shunt
      • spell
      • split shift
      • strengthening
      • strike-slip fault
      • sublimation
      • surf
      • swing shift
      • switcheroo
      • tin disease
      • tin pest
      • tin plague
      • tour
      • transfer
      • transition
      • translocate
      • transplant
      • transpose
      • transship
      • trick
      • turn
      • veer
      • watch
      • weakening

    Hypernyms for the word shift

      • alter
      • alteration
      • change
      • cleft
      • crack
      • crevice
      • crew
      • displace
      • dress
      • exchange
      • fissure
      • frock
      • gang
      • hands
      • hours
      • interchange
      • key
      • manpower
      • men
      • modification
      • modify
      • motion
      • move
      • movement
      • replace
      • scissure
      • shift
      • substitute
      • switch
      • translation
      • type
      • typewrite
      • undergarment
      • unmentionable
      • work force
      • work party
      • workforce

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