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shift

the act of moving from one place to another; "his constant shifting disrupted the class"

an event in which something is displaced without rotation

a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time

the time period during which you are at work

move and exchange for another; "shift the date for our class reunion"

change gears; "you have to shift when you go down a steep hill"

move from one setting or context to another; "shift the emphasis"; "shift one's attention"

change in quality; "His tone shifted"

change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change; "Grimm showed how the consonants shifted"

use a shift key on a keyboard; "She could not shift so all her letters are written in lower case"

change place or direction; "Shift one's position"

Synonyms:

• Doppler effect,
• aberrancy,
• aberration,
• about ship,
• about the bush,
• about-face,
• accommodation,
• action,
• ad hoc measure,
• adaptation,
• adjustment,
• advance,
• alchemy,
• alter,
• alteration,
• alternate,
• ameliorate,
• amelioration,
• amotion,
• anchor watch,
• answer,
• apostasy,
• around the bush,
• art,
• artful dodge,
• artifice,
• ascend,
• assimilate to,
• assimilation,
• assumption,
• back,
• back and fill,
• back up,
• bag of tricks,
• be changed,
• be converted into,
• be renewed,
• bear away,
• bear off,
• bear to starboard,
• beat,
• beat about,
• beat around,
• become,
• becoming,
• beg the question,
• bend,
• betterment,
• bias,
• bicker,
• bit,
• blind,
• blouse,
• bluff,
• bodice,
• boggle,
• bosey,
• bottom out,
• bout,
• box off,
• branch off,
• branching off,
• break,
• bring about,
• bring round,
• bring to,
• budge,
• cadre,
• caftan,
• cant,
• cant round,
• carry away,
• carry off,
• cart away,
• cast,
• cast about,
• catch,
• cavil,
• change,
• change course,
• change into,
• change of heart,
• change over,
• change place,
• change the bearing,
• change the heading,
• change-over,
• changeableness,
• changeover,
• cheat,
• checker,
• chemise,
• chicanery,
• chop,
• chop and change,
• choplogic,
• chouse,
• circle,
• circuitousness,
• climb,
• come about,
• come around,
• come round,
• conspiracy,
• constructive change,
• continuity,
• contrivance,
• conversion,
• convert,
• corner,
• corps,
• corsage,
• countermove,
• coup,
• course of action,
• craft,
• crew,
• crook,
• curve,
• curve-ball,
• cute trick,
• day shift,
• deceit,
• deceive,
• declination,
• defection,
• deflection,
• degenerate,
• degeneration,
• degenerative change,
• delocalization,
• delocalize,
• demarche,
• depart from,
• departure,
• deracination,
• dernier ressort,
• descend,
• design,
• deteriorate,
• deterioration,
• detour,
• deviance,
• deviancy,
• deviate,
• deviation,
• device,
• deviousness,
• dickey,
• difference,
• digress,
• digression,
• dirty deal,
• dirty trick,
• disarrangement,
• disarticulation,
• discontinuity,
• discursion,
• disjointing,
• dislocation,
• dislodge,
• displace,
• displacement,
• dither,
• divagate,
• divagation,
• divaricate,
• divarication,
• diverge,
• divergence,
• diversification,
• diversify,
• diversion,
• diversity,
• do over,
• dodge,
• dogleg,
• dogwatch,
• double,
• double a point,
• drift,
• drifting,
• duck,
• ebb,
• ebb and flow,
• edge,
• effort,
• equivocate,
• errantry,
• evade,
• evade the issue,
• excursion,
• excursus,
• exorbitation,
• expediency,
• expedient,
• fakement,
• fast deal,
• feint,
• fence,
• fetch,
• fetch about,
• ficelle,
• finesse,
• fitting,
• flip-flop,
• flop,
• flounder,
• flow,
• fluctuate,
• forcible shift,
• full time,
• gambit,
• game,
• gang,
• get over,
• gimmick,
• go,
• go about,
• go around,
• go round,
• go sideways,
• go through phases,
• googly,
• gradual change,
• graveyard shift,
• grift,
• group,
• growth,
• gybe,
• gyrate,
• hairpin,
• half time,
• haul around,
• heave round,
• hedge,
• heel,
• hem and haw,
• heterotopia,
• hocus-pocus,
• hours,
• improve,
• improvement,
• improvisation,
• incoherence,
• indirection,
• intrigue,
• jibe,
• jibe all standing,
• joker,
• juggle,
• jugglery,
• jury-rig,
• jury-rigged expedient,
• knavery,
• lapse,
• last expedient,
• last resort,
• last shift,
• lay aside,
• lie,
• linen,
• little game,
• lobster trick,
• look after,
• luxation,
• make,
• make do,
• make it,
• make over,
• makeshift,
• manage,
• maneuver,
• manhandle,
• market,
• means,
• measure,
• meliorate,
• melioration,
• miss stays,
• mitigate,
• mitigation,
• modification,
• modulate,
• modulation,
• mount,
• move,
• move over,
• movement,
• moving,
• mutate,
• muu-muu,
• mystify,
• naturalization,
• naturalize,
• night shift,
• nitpick,
• obliquity,
• obscure,
• oscillate,
• overthrow,
• overtime,
• palter,
• parry,
• part time,
• party,
• pass,
• passage,
• pendulate,
• pererration,
• pick nits,
• pis aller,
• plot,
• ploy,
• plunge,
• ply,
• prevaricate,
• progress,
• pull away,
• pull back,
• pussyfoot,
• put about,
• put aside,
• put back,
• put off,
• qualification,
• quibble,
• racket,
• radical change,
• rambling,
• re-creation,
• re-formation,
• realignment,
• rearrange,
• recoil,
• reconversion,
• reconvert,
• recourse,
• red herring,
• red shift,
• redesign,
• reduce to,
• reduction,
• reform,
• reformation,
• refuge,
• regress,
• relay,
• relocate,
• relocation,
• remaking,
• remotion,
• removal,
• remove,
• removement,
• render,
• renewal,
• reshaping,
• resolution,
• resolve into,
• resort,
• resource,
• restructuring,
• retrogress,
• reversal,
• reverse,
• revival,
• revive,
• revivification,
• revolution,
• ring the changes,
• ripping out,
• rise,
• rotate,
• round a point,
• run,
• ruse,
• schedule,
• scheme,
• scurvy trick,
• seesaw,
• sell,
• send,
• set aside,
• shake-up,
• sheer,
• sheer off,
• shift about,
• shift off,
• shifting,
• shifting course,
• shifting path,
• shilly-shally,
• shirt,
• shrink,
• shuffle,
• shunt,
• shy,
• shy away,
• shy off,
• side,
• sidestep,
• sink,
• skew,
• slant,
• sleight,
• sleight of hand,
• sleight-of-hand trick,
• slew,
• smock,
• soar,
• solution,
• spin,
• split hairs,
• split schedule,
• split shift,
• squad,
• staff,
• stagger,
• step,
• step aside,
• stint,
• stir,
• stopgap,
• stratagem,
• strategy,
• straying,
• stream,
• stroke,
• stroke of policy,
• subside,
• substitute,
• subterfuge,
• succeed,
• sudden change,
• sunrise watch,
• sway,
• sweep,
• swerve,
• swerving,
• swing,
• swing round,
• swing shift,
• swing the stern,
• swinging,
• switch,
• switch over,
• switch-over,
• tack,
• tactic,
• take a turn,
• take away,
• take care of,
• team,
• teeter,
• teeter-totter,
• temporary expedient,
• tergiversate,
• throw about,
• time,
• total change,
• totter,
• tour,
• tour of duty,
• transfer,
• transform,
• transformation,
• transit,
• transition,
• transpose,
• travel,
• trend,
• trick,
• trickery,
• trump,
• turn,
• turn aside,
• turn back,
• turn into,
• turn of work,
• turn the corner,
• turnabout,
• turning,
• turning into,
• twist,
• twist and turn,
• undergo a change,
• unhinging,
• unjointing,
• upheaval,
• uprooting,
• vacillate,
• variation,
• variety,
• vary,
• veer,
• violent change,
• volte-face,
• waist,
• wandering,
• wane,
• ward off,
• warp,
• watch,
• waver,
• wax and wane,
• wear,
• wear ship,
• whirl,
• wile,
• wily device,
• wind,
• wobble,
• work shift,
• workers,
• working hypothesis,
• working proposition,
• worsen,
• worsening,
• yaw,
• zigzag