shifts
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Definitions ofshifts
- 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).
- A type of women's undergarment, a slip.
Example: "Just last week she bought a new shift at the market."
- A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
Example: "We'll work three shifts a day till the job's done."
- An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
Example: "There was a shift in the political atmosphere."
- The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
Example: "Does it come with a stick-shift?"
- A bit shift.
- The infield shift.
Example: "Teams often use the shift against this lefty."
- (often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of kissing passionately.
- A contrivance, a device to try when other methods fail.
- A trick, an artifice.
- The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
- A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
- A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
- In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.
- (sometimes figurative) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
Example: "We'll have to shift these boxes to the downtown office."
- To change in form or character; swap.
- To change position.
Example: "His political stance shifted daily."
- To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.
Synonyms: move
Example: "We are shifting to America next month."
- To change (clothes, especially underwear).
- To change (someone's) clothes; sometimes specifically, to change underwear.
- To change gears (in a car).
Example: "I crested the hill and shifted into fifth."
- (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.
- (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.
- To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
Example: "Shifting 1001 to the left yields 10010; shifting it right yields 100."
- To remove the first value from an array.
- To dispose of.
Example: "How can I shift a grass stain?"
- To hurry.
Example: "If you shift, you might make the 2:19."
- To engage in sexual petting.
- To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
- To practice indirect or evasive methods.
- In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut.
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