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Dictionary quizzes to help you remember the meaning

shift

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Source Word

shift

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ʃɪft/

Verb

figuratively sometimes transitive intransitive India obsolete reflexive Ireland slang vulgar archaic

(transitive, sometimes figuratively) To move from one place to another; to redistribute. / (transitive, figuratively) To change in form or character; swap. / (intransitive) To change position.

Japanese Meaning

ある場所から別の場所へ移動させる、あるいは再配置する / 形状や性格が変わる、または交換する / 位置が変わる

What is this buttons?

Please shift the boxes to the back of the warehouse before noon.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

正午までに倉庫の奥に箱を移動させてください。

Sense（1）

(transitive, sometimes figuratively) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.

We'll have to shift these boxes to the downtown office.

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Sense（2）

(transitive, figuratively) To change in form or character; swap.

Sense（3）

(intransitive) To change position.

She shifted slightly in her seat.

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Sense（4）

(intransitive, India) To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.

We are shifting to America next month.

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Sense（5）

(obsolete, transitive) To change (clothes, especially underwear).

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Sense（6）

(obsolete, transitive, reflexive) To change (someone's) clothes; sometimes specifically, to change underwear.

As it were, to ride day and night; and […] not to have patience to shift me.

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Sense（7）

(intransitive) To change gears (in a car).

I crested the hill and shifted into fifth.

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Sense（8）

(typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.

Sense（9）

(computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.

Sense（10）

(transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.

Shifting 1001 to the left yields 10010; shifting it right yields 100.

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Sense（11）

(transitive, computing) To remove the first value from an array.

Sense（12）

(transitive) To dispose of.

How can I shift a grass stain?

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Sense（13）

(intransitive) To hurry; to move quickly.

If you shift, you might make the 2:19.

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Sense（14）

(Ireland, vulgar, slang) To engage in sexual petting.

Sense（15）

(archaic) To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.

check it out online

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Sense（16）

To practice indirect or evasive methods.

But this I dare auow of all those Schoole-men, that though they were exceeding wittie, yet they better teach all their Followers to shift, then to resolue, by their distinctions.

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Sense（17）

(music) In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut.

Sense（18）

To change the reality one's consciousness resides in through meditation or other means.

I finally shifted to Hogwarts last night!

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shifts

（ present singular third-person ）

shifting

（ participle present ）

shifted

（ participle past ）

shifted

（ past ）

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