Word: Shift
How to pronounce: ʃɪft
Verb
Definitions:
1. Move or cause to move from one place to another, especially over a small distance.
Example sentences: "I shift the weight back to the other leg"
Noun
Definitions:
1. A slight change in position, direction, or tendency.
Example sentences: "A shift in public opinion"
2. One of two or more recurring periods in which different groups of workers do the same jobs in relay.
Example sentences: "The night shift"
3. A woman's straight unwaisted dress.A long, loose-fitting undergarment.
Example sentences: "Today she is wearing a simple shift dress and no make-up and the sight of her looking so ordinary and conventional is indeed slightly shocking."
4. An ingenious or devious device or stratagem.
Example sentences: "The thousand shifts and devices of which Hannibal was a master"
Synonyms:
drift
displacement
offset
misalignment
transfer
switching
switchover
change
fault
transformation
switch
toggle
budge
displace
slip
step
move
remove
fluctuate
stir
dislodge
work shift
alternation
swap
exchange
trade
reposition
motion
movement
chemise
vary
break
mutate
changeover
transpose
relocate
dislocate
change over
substitute
tilt
Antonyms:
adjustment
alignment
distance
spacing
Derivations:
shifting
shifted
shifty
shifter
shiftwork
shiftiness
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Shift in Other Languages...
Spanish: Cambio
German: Shift
French: Changement
Italian: Shift
Turkish: Değiştirme
