Word Finder - shifting

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(sometimes figurative) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.

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

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To change in form or character; swap.

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To change position.

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His political stance shifted daily.

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To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.

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We are shifting to America next month.

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• move

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To change (clothes, especially underwear).

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

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To change gears (in a car).

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I crested the hill and shifted into fifth.

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

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

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To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.

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

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To remove the first value from an array.

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To dispose of.

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How can I shift a grass stain?

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To hurry.

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

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To engage in sexual petting.

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

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To practice indirect or evasive methods.

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

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A shift or change; a shifting movement.

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The phenomenon by which two or more constituents appearing on the same side of their common head exchange positions to obtain non-canonical order.

Finally he looked away, shifting his attention to the improvements.

Instead of shifting with each step, the ground felt solid.

He was shifting up for a sprint when it happened.

He obeyed and sat across from her, shifting in his seat several times under her gaze.

It's the oldest bond there is, old enough to keep the mating bond from shifting when she wins her deal.

She wisely chose not to meet the challenging gaze of a restlessly shifting man among the king's company but focused on Taran's leg.

The jar made by shifting the men from one hole to another tells me when it is my turn.

The clouds far above were starting to swirl with hypnotic slowness, the rain beginning to fall again, and the sea beneath their feet rippling and shifting beneath the rubbery surface.

He turned to Cynthia, awkwardly shifting him around so she could take him.

They joined a larger group shifting from the eastern to the southern wall.

The use of the slips for the purpose of multiplication is now evident; thus to multiply 2085 by 736 we take out in this manner the multiples corresponding to 6, 3, 7, and set down the digits as they are obtained, from right to left, shifting them back one place and adding up the columns as in ordinary multiplication, viz.

The rainbow tints from the colored suns fell upon the glass city softly and gave to the buildings many delicate, shifting hues which were very pretty to see.

With shifting eyes but eyebrows still raised, Telyanin handed him the purse.

Prince Andrew smiled involuntarily as he looked at the artillery officer Tushin, who silent and smiling, shifting from one stockinged foot to the other, glanced inquiringly with his large, intelligent, kindly eyes from Prince Andrew to the staff officer.

She scooted closer to him, shifting the blanket so that she could drape the excess around his shoulders.

His crying and shifting distracted her from the strange world around her and made her head pulse, as if he were trying to pry his way into her unwilling mind.

They moved like smoke, shifting and swirling as they crawled the walls.

He said nothing but let her strike several times before shifting to the offensive.

She nudged him with her nose then licked his face, her demeanor shifting to the gentle wolf he knew.

Shifting her position to relieve a cramp in her hip, she twisted the injured shoulder and cried out in pain.

Maybe that was what the dream was about – shifting from one family to the next.

He gazed at her, shifting to lean forward, the only sign of his unease.

It took her a few minutes to become accustomed to the gearing, but she was shifting smoothly much quicker than he expected.

He did so impatiently, shifting his gear around his body.

Shifting to his highest gear, Dean raced in pursuit down a long incline.

Thoughts shifting to the task at hand, Xander stepped back to watch the Grey God do his job.

In depths beyond the reach of wave motion, and apart from suspension across a submarine gully, which will sooner or later result in a rupture of the cable, the most frequent cause of interruption is seismic or other shifting of the ocean bed, while in shallower waters and near the shore the dragging of anchors or 40 fishing trawls has been mostly responsible.

There has been in effect a successive shifting of zones of vegetation southwards from the pole.

Under the act of 1892 this shifting of the burden of proof only occurred if the circular had been sent to any person at any university, college, school or other place of education.

As early as 1573, Thomas Digges had suggested that this theory should necessitate a parallactic shifting of the stars, and, consequently, if such stellar parallaxes existed, then the Copernican theory would receive additional confirmation.

There was apparently no shifting of the star, which was therefore thought to be at its most southerly point.

The financial difficulties of Italy were due to many causes, notably to a shifting of trade routes; but those of the papal states seem caused chiefly by misgovernment.

These attain at places a height of from z oo to 150 ft., and are continually shifting to the westward.

Sow tender annuals for succession, potting and shifting those sown at an earlier period; sow cinerarias for succession; and a few hardy annuals and tenweek stock, &c., for late crops.

Due attention must be paid to shifting well-rooted plants into larger pots; and, if space is desired, many kinds of hardier plants can be safely put out in cold frames.

But carbon affects the properties of iron not only by giving rise to varying proportions of cementite, but also both by itself shifting from one molecular state to another, and by enabling us to hold the iron itself in its unmagnetic allotropic forms, 0and 7-iron, as will be explained below.

In the shifting of offices which took place at the beginning of the new reigns, Alaric apparently hoped that he would receive one of the great war ministries of the empire, and thus instead of being a mere commander of irregulars would have under his orders a large part of the imperial legions.

Farther down the Rhone meanders for a time with shifting channels in a bed about 2 m.

But his plans were traversed again and again by unforeseen complications, the failure of the most promising presumptions, the perpetual shifting of apparently stable alliances; and again and again he had to modify his means to attain his ends.

Since 1900 the development of the naval establishment and of the town has been exceptionally rapid, coincident with the growth of the German navy, and with the shifting of political and naval activity from the Baltic to the North Sea.

The shifting of the balance of power that followed belongs to the history of Europe; for Austria the only important outcome was that in 1731 Charles found himself isolated.

With the enormous extension of Greek territory a great shifting took place in the old centres of gravity.

Others, which may be called " earth-tiltings," show themselves by a slow bending and unbending of the surface, so that a post stuck in the ground, vertical to begin with, does not remain vertical, but inclines now to one side and now to another, the plane of the ground in which it stands shifting relatively to the horizon.

The only other tributary of any size that the sea receives is the Jaxartes (Sihun, Syr-darya) which enters towards the northern extremity of the east coast, and is suspected to be shifting its embouchure more and more to the north.

It is clear that where the bottom of a lake or sea consists of oozy mud or shifting sand, it is impossible for algae to secure a foothold.

Finally, it is important to remember that the fundamental characteristic of a living organism is its power of response to environment, a response or series of responses being necessary in a continuous environment for the normal facies of the organism to appear, and necessary in a shifting environment if the organism is to change suitably and not to perish.

The native population consists of Malay fishermen, Chinese, Tamils and small shifting communities of Kadayans, Tutongs and other natives of the neighbouring Bornean coast.

The seaward banks of the lagoons are frequently broken in storms, and the narrow channels through them are constantly shifting.

Up to the middle of the 19th century the destruction of forests by timber-cutters, by charcoal-burners, and above all by shifting cultivation, was allowed to go on everywhere unchecked.

Restrictions necessary for the proper conservancy of the forests are, however, imposed, and the system of shifting cultivation, which denudes a large area of forest growth in order to place a small area under crops, is held to cost more to the community than it is worth, and is only permitted, under due regulation, where forest tribes depend on it for their sustenance.