• I shifted uncomfortably in my position on a plastic covered sofa.
• Brant shifted uncomfortably, obviously nervous about the gun still pointed directly at him and he began to lower his hands.
• One would ordinarily shift from a physical position which grows increasingly uncomfortable, but the meditator does not.

Synonyms

• While all deaths on the roads are avoidable it seems that your campaign aims to shift the focus and blame away from motorcyclists and onto other road users.
• The economic culture in particular was shifted significantly in the direction of enterprise.
• We can expect to see a push for more of the tax burden to be shifted onto employers.

• If the area is violent, the balance of power can shift in the opposite direction.
• But even as the balance of power on the ground shifted in one direction, the balance of politics at home was shifting in the other.
• The focus of his attention shifted abruptly to the moonlit scene before him.

Synonyms

• As soon as you start facing complaints from your customer you'd better shift.

• I reckon that Old Shifty won't shift himself until there is absolutely no money left in the tea caddy where they keep the pension dosh.
• Use focus to shift yourself to states of motivation, productivity or your goals.
• You will understand how important it is to shift yourself

• And, after the next clock pulse at t5, all logic 1s will have been shifted out, replaced by 0s.
• A register that is capable of shifting data one bit at a time is called a shift register.
• A bidirectional shift register, which is capable of shifting bits to the left (L) or right (R), will then be capable of performing modulo-2 division and multiplication operations.

• This Vanish stain remover can shift bolognaise sauce, tea, coffee, curry, blood, a little engine oil (like if you splash some by accident when you're topping up your car oil), and these are just a few stains of what it is good at getting rid of.
• And she's not afraid to use it, regularly calling in with the solution to a hard-to-shift stain or to correct the advice of the on-air expert.
• If soap and water doesn't shift the stain scrub the area with a nail-brush dipped in vinegar and salt.

Synonyms

• It's very important to finish the design phase before the end of this year (so that we can shift the product to the market at the beginning of next year).
• I know that there is an element of advertising - my whisky must be good because there is a bottle in TWE at £10000! - but they must also want to shift some product.
• We really did shift some stuff last weekend, didn't we?

• And if you think Poleson can shift whisky, you should have seen Macintyre in his prime, I'm amazed he's still alive.

• Single wavelength probes only show changes in intensity on binding with no spectral shift.
• The spectral shift occurs slowly, reaching a plateau after 15-20 min, and is fully reversible.

• This allows one of the keys to double as a shift key similar to a shift key on a keyboard.
• When you put a disc in the drive, hold the shift key on your keyboard - before the disc is inserted.

• But through prescribed borders, shifts in dialect coalesced into distinct languages.
• The stories she listened to intrigued her with their form as well as their content, the myriad dialects, shifts, and cadences of African American voices.

• I thought ForceFed's was a full sequential transmission with computer controlled clutch and all, not just a sequential gear shift.
• All the sequential shifter does is convert the back and forth motion to move the two shifter rods in a standard H pattern gear shift.

• At each time step from t=1 onwards, the right shift results in a state change which indicates a division by two operation.
• Similarly, if we operate in reverse chronological order (i.e. from t=4 to t=1), the left shift will result in a multiplication by two.

• Nebraska is a classic West Coast team with a lot of jumps and scramble shifts before the ball is snapped.
• I always enjoy the shouts among defenders when an offensive team puts a man in motion or shifts before the snap.

• I understood and sat up, searching for my shift on the floor.
• We have a skeleton crew here now, but as soon as the phone stops ringing I am going to hire a second crew and then a third shift and do a weekend run.
• Around 50 people were transported in the first few hours by the team, who were replaced at teatime by a second shift who remained at the village until midnight.

Synonyms

• She stripped down to her shift, putting her dress carefully in a corner, and progressed to the armoire.
• She pulled a brightly coloured gown over her shift, tying it at the waist with a decorative sash.