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Definition shift

Etymology

From Middle English schiften, from Old English s?iftan (“to divide, separate into shares; appoint, ordain; arrange, organise”), from Proto-Germanic *skiftijan?, *skiptijan?, for earlier *skipatjan? (“to organise, put in order”), from Proto-Indo-European *skeyb- (“to separate, divide, part”), from Proto-Indo-European *sk?y- (“to cut, divide, separate, part”). Cognate with Scots schift, skift (“to shift”), West Frisian skifte, skiftsje (“to sort”), Dutch schiften (“to sort, screen, winnow, part”), German schichten (“to stack, layer”), Swedish skifta (“to shift, change, exchange, vary”), Norwegian skifte (“to shift”), Icelandic skipta (“to switch”). See ship.

Noun

shift (countable and uncountable, plural shifts)

1. (historical) A type of women's undergarment, a slip.
2. A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
3. An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
4. (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
5. Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).
6. (computing) A bit shift.
7. (baseball) The infield shift.
8. (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of kissing passionately.
9. (archaic) A contrivance, a device to try when other methods fail.
10. (archaic) A trick, an artifice.
11. (construction) The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
12. (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
13. (genetics) A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
14. (music) In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.

Verb

shift (third-person singular simple present shifts, present participle shifting, simple past and past participle shifted)

1. (transitive) To change, swap.
2. (transitive) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
3. (intransitive) To change position.
4. (intransitive, India) To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.
5. (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To change (one's clothes); also to change (someone's) underclothes.
6. (intransitive) To change gears (in a car).
7. (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.
8. (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.
9. (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
10. (transitive, computing) To remove the first value from an array.
11. (transitive) To dispose of.
12. (intransitive) To hurry.
13. (Ireland, vulgar, slang) To engage in sexual petting.
14. (archaic) To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
15. To practice indirect or evasive methods.
16. (music) In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut.

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