| downshift | (noun) a change to a lower gear in a car or bicycle | - |
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| (noun) a change from a financially rewarding but stressful career to a less well paid but more fulfilling one | - |
| gearshift | (noun) a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears | Synonyms: gear lever, gearstick, shifter |
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| makeshift | (adjective) done or made using whatever is available | Synonyms: improvised, jury-rigged |
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| (noun) something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency | Synonyms: make-do, stopgap |
| redshift | (noun) (astronomy) a shift in the spectra of very distant galaxies toward longer wavelengths (toward the red end of the spectrum); generally interpreted as evidence that the universe is expanding | Synonyms: red shift |
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| shift | (noun) the act of moving from one place to another | Synonyms: shifting |
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| (noun) the act of changing one thing or position for another | Synonyms: switch, switching |
| (noun) a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist | Synonyms: chemise, sack |
| (noun) a woman's sleeveless undergarment | Synonyms: chemise, shimmy, slip, teddy |
| (noun) the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters | Synonyms: shift key |
| (noun) an event in which something is displaced without rotation | Synonyms: displacement |
| (noun) a qualitative change | Synonyms: transformation, transmutation |
| (noun) a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time | - |
| (noun) (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other | Synonyms: break, fault, faulting, fracture, geological fault |
| (noun) the time period during which you are at work | Synonyms: duty period, work shift |
| (verb) make a shift in or exchange of | Synonyms: change over, switch |
| (verb) move and exchange for another | - |
| (verb) lay aside, abandon, or leave for another | Synonyms: change, switch |
| (verb) move from one setting or context to another | - |
| (verb) change in quality | - |
| (verb) change gears | - |
| (verb) change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change | - |
| (verb) use a shift key on a keyboard | - |
| (verb) change place or direction | Synonyms: dislodge, reposition |
| (verb) move very slightly | Synonyms: agitate, budge, stir |
| (verb) move around | Synonyms: transfer |
| (verb) move abruptly | Synonyms: lurch, pitch |
| (verb) move sideways or in an unsteady way | Synonyms: careen, tilt, wobble |