| 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 |
| shifter | (noun) a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears | Synonyms: gear lever, gearshift, gearstick |
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| (noun) a stagehand responsible for moving scenery | Synonyms: sceneshifter |
| shiftily | (adverb) in a shifty manner | - |
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| shiftiness | (noun) the quality of being a slippery rascal | Synonyms: rascality, slipperiness, trickiness |
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| (noun) the quality of being changeable in direction | - |
| shifting | (adjective) (of soil) unstable | Synonyms: unfirm |
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| (adjective) changing position or direction | Synonyms: shifty |
| (adjective) continuously varying | - |
| (noun) the act of moving from one place to another | Synonyms: shift |
| shiftless | (adjective) lacking or characterized by lack of ambition or initiative | - |
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| shiftlessness | (noun) a failure to be active as a consequence of lack of initiative or ambition | - |
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| shifty | (adjective) changing position or direction | Synonyms: shifting |
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| (adjective) characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive | Synonyms: devious |