Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word SHIFT

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Definitions of SHIFT

1. A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
2. An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
3. A movement to do something, a beginning.
4. A simple straight-hanging, loose-fitting dress.
5. A period of time in which one's consciousness resides in another reality, usually achieved through meditation or other means.
6. (historical) A type of women's undergarment of dress length worn under dresses or skirts, a slip or chemise.
7. (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
8. Alternative spelling of Shift ("a modifier button of computer keyboards")..
9. (computing) A control code or character used to change between different character sets.
10. (computing) A bit shift.
11. (baseball) An infield shift.
12. (Ireland, crudeslang, often with the definite article, usuallyuncountable) The act of kissing passionately.
13. (archaic) A contrivance, a device to try when other methods fail.
14. (archaic) A trick, an artifice.
15. (construction) The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
16. (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
17. (genetics) A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
18. (music) In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.
19. (transitive, sometimes, figurative) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
20. (intransitive, India) To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.
21. (obsolete, transitive, reflexive) To change (someone's) clothes; sometimes specifically, to change underwear.
22. (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
23. (intransitive) To hurry; to move quickly.
24. (computing) 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).
25. (obsolete) A share, a portion assigned on division.
26. (UK slang) be done; ruined
27. (Nigeria, slang) To steal or kidnap.
28. (ergative, figurative) To change in form or character; switch.
29. (intransitive, sometimes, reflexive and figurative) To change position; to move.
30. (obsolete, transitive) To change (clothes, especially underwear); to change the clothes of.
31. (intransitive) To change gears (in an automobile).
32. (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters or special characters.
33. (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters or special characters.
34. (transitive, computing) To remove (the first value from an array).
35. (transitive) To dispose of, remove.
36. (Ireland, vulgar, slang, transitive) To engage in sexual petting with.
37. (archaic, intransitive) To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to cope, get by, manage, make do.
38. (intransitive) To practice indirect or evasive methods; to contrive.
39. (intransitive, music) In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut.
40. (intransitive) To use meditation or other means to change the reality that one's consciousness resides in.

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Examples of Using SHIFT in a Sentence

• It was also adopted by other peoples as their own alphabet when empires and their subjects underwent linguistic Aramaization during a language shift for governing purposes — a precursor to Arabization centuries later — including among the Assyrians and Babylonians who permanently replaced their Akkadian language and its cuneiform script with Aramaic and its script, and among Jews, but not Samaritans, who adopted the Aramaic language as their vernacular and started using the Aramaic alphabet, which they call "Square Script", even for writing Hebrew, displacing the former Paleo-Hebrew alphabet.
• His major foreign policy achievement was the Franco-Russian Alliance, a major shift in international relations that eventually embroiled Russia in World War I.
• This means that for every feature that one sees in the frequency response of the analog filter, there is a corresponding feature, with identical gain and phase shift, in the frequency response of the digital filter but, perhaps, at a somewhat different frequency.
• He played a pivotal role in elevating the status of Christianity in Rome, decriminalizing Christian practice and ceasing Christian persecution in a period referred to as the Constantinian shift.
• The 20th century saw a vast language shift, with the islanders adapting and changing their communications to the extent that there were no monolingual Corsican-speakers left by the 1960s.
• A common example of Doppler shift is the change of pitch heard when a vehicle sounding a horn approaches and recedes from an observer.
• In most cases these linear filters are also time invariant (or shift invariant) in which case they can be analyzed exactly using LTI ("linear time-invariant") system theory revealing their transfer functions in the frequency domain and their impulse responses in the time domain.
• In physics and general relativity, gravitational redshift (known as Einstein shift in older literature) is the phenomenon that electromagnetic waves or photons travelling out of a gravitational well lose energy.
• At the time the retired Heizei had quarreled with his brother over the ideal location of the court, the latter preferring the Heian capital, while the former was convinced that a shift back to the Nara plain was necessary, and Heizei, exploiting Saga's weakened health, seized the opportunity to foment a rebellion, known historically as the Kusuko Incident; however, forces loyal to Emperor Saga, led by taishōgun Sakanoue no Tamuramaro, quickly defeated the Heizei rebels which thus limited the adverse consequences which would have followed any broader conflict.
• His initial two terms were centered on combating the Great Depression, while his third and fourth saw him shift his focus to America's involvement in World War II.
• High German is marked by the High German consonant shift, separating it from Low German (Low Saxon) and Low Franconian (including Dutch) within the continental West Germanic dialect continuum.
• It marked a shift away from Scott's prior practice of setting stories in Scotland and in the more recent past.
• The Kattegat is a rather shallow sea and can be very difficult and dangerous to navigate because of the many sandy and stony reefs and tricky currents, which often shift.
• Afterwards, the city experienced a dramatic shift in population and demography with the arrival of hundreds of thousands of Muslim immigrants from India, coupled with an exodus of most of its Hindu residents.
• The range of definitions of literacy used by NGOs, think tanks, and advocacy groups since the 1990s suggests that this shift in understanding from "discrete skill" to "social practice" is both ongoing and uneven.
• On September 11, 2001, Sweeney, who had been a flight attendant for 12 years, was asked by American Airlines to take an extra shift because the other crew member, who was assigned to the position, was ill.
• Modafinil is also approved for stimulating wakefulness in people with sleep apnea and shift work sleep disorder.
• Even though Kuhn restricted the use of the term to the natural sciences, the concept of a paradigm shift has also been used in numerous non-scientific contexts to describe a profound change in a fundamental model or perception of events.
• "Mutant" alleles can vary to a great extent, and even become the wild type if a genetic shift occurs within the population.
• That time zone shift was a reform made by Governor–General Narciso Claveria on August 16, 1844, in order to align the local calendars in the country with the rest of Asia as trade interests with Imperial China, Dutch East Indies and neighboring countries increased, after Mexico became independent in 1821.

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