intransitive verb. To exchange (one thing) for another of the same class.

intransitive verb. To move or transfer from one place or position to another.

intransitive verb. To alter (position or place).

intransitive verb. To change (gears), as in an automobile.

intransitive verb. To alter phonetically as part of a systematic historical change.

intransitive verb. To change position, direction, place, or form.

intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To provide for one's own needs; get along.

intransitive verb. To get along by tricky or evasive means.

intransitive verb. To change gears, as when driving an automobile.

intransitive verb. To be altered as part of a systematic historical change. Used of speech sounds.

intransitive verb. To use a shift key.

noun. A change from one person or configuration to another; a substitution.

noun. undefined

noun. A group of workers that relieve another on a regular schedule.

noun. The working period of such a group.

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noun. A means to an end; an expedient.

noun. A stratagem; a trick.

noun. A change in direction.

noun. A change in attitude, judgment, or emphasis.

noun. A change in position, as.

noun. A change of the hand position in playing the violin or a similar instrument.

noun. A rearrangement of players from one formation to another just prior to the snap of the ball.

noun. A rearrangement of one or more fielders for improved defense against a particular hitter.

noun. undefined

noun. Movement of characters in a register to the left or right, as of the bits in a byte.

noun. The act or an instance of using a shift key.

noun. A change in wavelength, causing a movement of a spectral band or line.

noun. undefined

noun. A systematic change of the phonetic or phonemic structure of a language.

noun. Functional shift.

noun. undefined

noun. A loosely fitting dress that hangs straight from the shoulder; a chemise.

noun. A woman's undergarment; a slip or chemise.

noun. In pianoforte-making, the action of the shifting pedal (which see).

To divide; partition; distribute; apportion; assign: as, to shift lands among coheirs.

To transfer or move, as from one person, place, or position to another: as, to shift the blame; to shift one's quarters; to shift the load to the other shoulder.

To cause or induce to move off or away; get rid of, as by the use of some expedient.

To remove and replace with another or others; put off and replace; change: as, to shift one's clothes; to shift the scenes on a stage.

To clothe (one's self) afresh or anew; change the dress of.

To alter or vary in character, form, or other respect; change.

To put away; disengage or disencumber one's self of, as of a burden or inconvenience.

To make division or distribution.

To change.

To change place, position, direction, or the like; move.

To change dress, particularly the under-garments.

To use changing methods or expedients, as in a case of difficulty, in earning a livelihood, or the like; adopt expedients; contrive in one way or another; do the best one can; seize one expedient when another fails: as, to shift for a living; to shift for one's self.

To pick up or make out a livelihood; manage to succeed.

To practise indirect methods.

angle of shift  shift of butts  shift of crops  shift the helm  shifting-pivot carriage  

blueshift  day shift  graveyard shift  night shift  preshift  

change  dress  exchange  frock  interchange  

break  channel-surf  cut  diphthongise  diphthongize  

Clift  Swift  adrift  clift  drift  

adjustment  alteration  change  decline  error  

Doppler effect  aberrancy  aberration  about ship  about the bush  

shifted  shifting  shifts