Word Finder - shifter

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One who, or that which, shifts or changes.

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A word whose meaning changes depending on the situation, as by deixis.

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One who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener.

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An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.

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An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.

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A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.

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A component used by the rider to control the gearing mechanisms and select the desired gear ratio, usually connected to the derailleur by a mechanical actuation cable.

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A spanner with an adjustable jaw size.

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A person employed to repair the horseways and other passages, and keep them unobstructed.

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A switcher or shunter: a railroad locomotive used for shunting.

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A shape-shifter, or a person or other being capable of changing their physical form.

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(erotica) A genre of erotica focusing on lycanthropes or other shapeshifters, such as werewolves.

Jacob Black - The shape shifter Jacob is a year younger than Bella and becomes her best friend.

With the clutch and brake still on, move the shifter into first gear.

Short Throw Shifter Barely six inches long, this shift handle designed for 5.0 Mustangs is machined from ½ thick aluminum.

Designs include linear phase filters, a wideband phase shifter, and chirp filters with fractional bandwidths exceeding 100% .

Never before has a shifter and rear derailleur been faster, lighter and more precise than the new SRAM X.0 system.

Gears are changed not with a standard stick shifter, but with steering wheel-mounted paddles to enable quick, smooth transitions and response.

Bella's father Charlie is good friends with a local Quileute Indian and Bella is good friends with his son Jacob, who later becomes a shifter because of the vampire's presence.

He becomes a shape shifter as part of the Quileute biological response to the vampires in their territory.

The next feature of a boot you should be looking for is a shifter pad.

In the television series, that pig turns out to be Daphne (Ashley Jones), a shape shifter who is eventually murdered by Maryann.

By the fourth season, Sam had begun to work on his anger issues, flirted with a relationship with fellow shape shifter Luna and continued to look after his family and friends around Merlotte's.

As a true shape shifter, Sam is not limited to changing at full moons or by the animal he can change into.

According to the book's mythology, a true shape shifter turns into the last creature he saw.

Some vehicles may have a button on the handle of the shifter that allows you to shift.

Get Familiar With the Clutch and Shifter - Before you start the car for the first time, get used to the clutch and shifter.

If you slow all the way to a stop, you will need to move the shifter back to first gear so you can start again.

You will likely see several letters and numbers running down the side of the shifter.

If the car is off, this is where the shifter will be.

There are probably five gears as well as reverse on your shifter.

With the clutch in, move the shifter through the gears starting with first gear.

Get a feel for how the car's shifter works and how it feels to move through the gears.

By carefully studying how the experts describe the method of using the clutch, the gas pedal and the shifter in a smooth and easy process, you'll realize that it's actually not all that hard to drive a standard car.

With the car still turned off, push in the clutch pedal, and practice moving the shifter knob into different gears.

To do this, simply remove your right foot from the brake, depress the clutch with your left foot, and move the gear shifter into second gear.

However, in a manual transmission, the driver must use the gear shifter and the clutch pedal to select and change gears.

The "stick" - the gear shifter that allows you to select your preferred speed in the transmission.

The repairs were necessary to prevent owners from being able to remove the ignition key prior to putting the shifter in park.

As a shape shifter, it transforms its appearance, can recover from physical damage quickly and can mimic sounds including voices almost perfectly.

The big three was comprised of Commander Benjamin Sisko, a Starfleet officer and Major Kira Nerys, a Bajoran military officer and Security Offiicer Odo, a shape shifter from another quadrant.

Adopted by the Merlottes, his birth family turned him out when he was revealed as a shape shifter.