shift /shift/

1. To change
2. To change the clothes of (archaic or dialect)
3. To change the position or direction of
4. To remove
5. To dislodge
6. To transfer
7. To evade (obsolete)
8. To rid
9. To quit
10. To swallow, consume (slang)
11. To sell, get rid of by selling (slang)
12. To put off

1. To manage, get on, do as one can
2. To change
3. To change position or direction
4. To fluctuate
5. To change one's clothes (archaic or dialect)
6. To take appropriate or urgent action
7. To move
8. To go away
9. To move quickly (informal)
10. To undergo phonetic change

1. A group of people who work for a specific period within a working day, alternating with other groups
2. The time worked by such a group
3. A change
4. A change of position or direction
5. A change in the direction of the wind (nautical)
6. A general or bodily displacement of a series (as of lines in the spectrum, consonant or vowel sounds, faulted strata)
7. Displacement of an ordered set of data to the left or right (computing)
8. The movement of two or more offensive players at the same time before the snap (American football)
9. (in violin-playing) any change of position of the hand on the fingerboard
10. A removal
11. The gear change in a motor vehicle (chiefly N American)
12. An expedient
13. An artifice or contrivance
14. A woman's undergarment, a smock, chemise or slip (old)
15. A loose dress, roughly triangular or oblong
16. Provision of clothes or (archaic) other things for use in rotation or substitution

shiftˈable adjective

shiftˈed adjective

shiftˈer noun

1. Someone who or something that shifts, esp a scene-shifter
2. Someone who resorts to shifts, tricks, evasions, or sophistry

shifˈtily adverb

shiftˈiness noun

shiftˈing noun adjective

1. Moving about
2. Unstable
3. Shifty

shiftˈless adjective

1. Without resource or expedient
2. Inefficient
3. Feckless, aimless
4. Without a smock (archaic)

shiftˈlessly adverb

shiftˈlessness noun

shiftˈy adjective

1. Evasive, tricky, suggesting trickery
2. Dubious, shady, furtive
3. Ready with shifts or expedients

shifˈting-boards plural noun

Partitioning to prevent shifting of cargo

shifting cultivation noun

A system of cultivating land, in which an area is cleared and farmed until the fertility of the soil is exhausted, then abandoned for a new area

shifting register same as shift register below.

• effort
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• effortless
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• effortlessness
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• effray
• effronteries
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• effulge
• effulged
• effulgence
• effulgences
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• gruffness
• gruffnesses
• grufted
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• gruing
• grum
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