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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).
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A type of women's undergarment, a slip.
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Just last week she bought a new shift at the market.
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A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
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We'll work three shifts a day till the job's done.
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An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
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There was a shift in the political atmosphere.
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The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
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Does it come with a stick-shift?
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A bit shift.
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The infield shift.
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Teams often use the shift against this lefty.
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(often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of kissing passionately.
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A contrivance, a device to try when other methods fail.
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A trick, an artifice.
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The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
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A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
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A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
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In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.
verb
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(sometimes figurative) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
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We'll have to shift these boxes to the downtown office.
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To change in form or character; swap.
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To change position.
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His political stance shifted daily.
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To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.
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We are shifting to America next month.
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To change (clothes, especially underwear).
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To change (someone's) clothes; sometimes specifically, to change underwear.
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To change gears (in a car).
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I crested the hill and shifted into fifth.
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(typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.
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(computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.
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To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
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Shifting 1001 to the left yields 10010; shifting it right yields 100.
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To remove the first value from an array.
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To dispose of.
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How can I shift a grass stain?
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To hurry.
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If you shift, you might make the 2:19.
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To engage in sexual petting.
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To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
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To practice indirect or evasive methods.
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In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut.
Examples of shift in a Sentence
It was hardly fair to shift that responsibility solely to him.
He felt the subtle shift and stopped on the stairwell down to the gym.
She felt the air around him shift, darken.
My shift doesn't end until nine.
Snaking her upper torso over the back of the seat, she began to shift her weight toward the back of the car.
Today we are on the cusp of a substantially more profound shift in work life.
Computers hummed, the sound enough to lull Lana to sleep nearly every shift she spent alone in the vault despite the sleep replacement supplements—known as anti-sleepers—she took.
Actually, I just got off my shift and thought I'd check in on her.
She felt the shift in him.
Of course Prince Andrew is not a child and can shift without him, but it's not nice to enter a family against a father's will.
The emotion was fleeting, more in a subtle shift of his eyebrows than in a smile or sudden change.
They make shift to live merely by conformity, practically as their fathers did, and are in no sense the progenitors of a noble race of men.
Instead of everyone running around, slipping and sliding, shoveling slushy muck and shivering, here people just shift into a lower gear, listen to the quiet and enjoy the temporary peace.
It is said that the output of single shafts has been raised by this method to 3500 and 4500 tons in the double shift of sixteen hours.
Randy had called a few days before with an invitation but Dean was putting in a Sunday shift and was forced to decline.
It would shift the focus from Lori to Jonathan and make him feel more welcome.
In the United Kingdom the drawing of coal is generally confined to the day shift of eight hours, with an output of from 100 to 150 tons per hour, according to the depth, capacity of coal tubs, and facilities for landing and changing tubs.
He let her take it and saw her attention shift to the bracelet.
Speranski did not shift his eyes from one face to another as people involuntarily do on entering a large company and was in no hurry to speak.
When your car gets to that point, you need to remove your foot from the gas, press the clutch to the floor, and shift the car into second.
It was a subtle shift, an undercurrent of cool energy that brushed by him, like when Sofi used her voodoo fortune-telling powers around him.
While a shift of men is being lowered the miners of the preceding shift are usually raised to the surface in the ascending cages, the entire shift being thus changed in the time required for lowering.
The two admirals engaged in a species of personal conflict, and each was compelled to shift his flag to another vessel.
He heard her stir and shift.
He tried to shift Destiny so that he had an unobstructed view of Lori.
Many agree that this shift toward neo-liberal economics and away from Keynesianism signaled the beginning of the sometimes rather nebulous term ' globalization ' .
The authors argue that policies which shift more costs of non-marital childbearing to men reduce non-marital childbearing.
With designer track lighting, it is easy to reconfigure lighting when focal points shift.
And their machines beep when they shift into backward gear.
Scapegoats The story shows how ready some people are to shift the blame for their own actions onto someone else.
This will keep stellar brightness near normal, with some minor color shift.
The TiC STi Shift Linkage bushings replace the soft rubber bushings in the actual shift linkage joint.
Are time limitations included and is shift changeover dealt with?
This method is still called the Caesar cipher, regardless the size of the shift used for the substitution.
Staffing comprises of one emergency nurse practitioner per shift and is supported by a health care assistant, who undertakes clerical and nursing duties.
A slight shift in the angle of illumination reveals that this critter has some wonderfully metallic green coloration.
Complementarity â A shift toward more " strategic complementarity â A shift toward more " strategic complementarity " among the international community.
The Bush administration is seizing advantage of the present conjuncture in order to shift the terms further in the favor of US capitalism " .
Such a shift would help revitalize rural economies decimated by the global economy.
I have argued for a shift away from welfare dependency for single parents with children of secondary school age.
Since 1997 there has been a dramatic shift in public opinion in favor of welsh devolution.
The speed at which the range has diversified reveals a major shift in attitudes toward Fairtrade.
If there is a change in inflation expectations in the economy we see a shift in the Phillips Curve.
How do we promote additional modal shift from road freight to rail and waterborne freight?
Not least it could be used, as could the London canal system, to shift bulk freight, and to transport waste.
There has also been a 6% shift to rail from road freight transport.
That is, they need to shift the focus from " How can we sell more hamburgers?
His stellar performance complete failure to help out the peugeot workers at Ryton has probably hastened his shift to another portfolio.
With a shift to spring calving herds, more beef producers left bull buying until the sales early in the year.
The new shift in policy has led magic mushroom shop owners to detect a whiff of government hypocrisy.