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Definition of "shift"

shift

Từ điển Collocation

shift noun

¹ change

ADJ. distinct, dramatic, fundamental, major, marked, profound, pronounced, radical, significant, substantial | discernible | slight, subtle | gradual | abrupt, sudden | decisive, irreversible, long-term | climate, cultural, demographic, ideological, policy, population

VERB + SHIFT be, represent These proposals represent a dramatic shift in policy. | bring about, cause, lead to, produce, result in | mark, see The moment marked a significant shift in attitudes to the war. | detect I detected a subtle shift towards our point of view. | explain one factor which may explain the president's policy shift

SHIFT + VERB occur, take place These climate shifts occurred over less than a decade.

PREP. ~ between the many shifts between verse and prose that occur in Shakespeare | ~ (away) from the shift away from direct taxation | ~ in a shift in public opinion | ~ to a sudden shift to the right in British politics | ~ towards a shift towards part-time farming

² division of the working day

ADJ. double, long, split I agreed to work double shifts for a few weeks. | day, early, late, night | eight-hour, ten-hour, etc. | afternoon, evening, morning, weekend

VERB + SHIFT be/come/go on, do, work (in) ~s I'm doing the early shift this week. I didn't realize that I'd have to work shifts. The clinic is staffed by ten doctors who work in shifts. | change (your) ~s It was 8.00 a.m. and the nurses were changing shifts. My husband has changed his shifts, from the afternoon shift to the night one. | be/go/come off

SHIFT + NOUN work | supervisor, manager, worker | pattern, system They'd altered his shift pattern twice in the past fortnight.

PREP. on a/the ~ a decision for the chief nurse on each shift

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Từ điển WordNet

n.

• an event in which something is displaced without rotation; displacement
• a qualitative change; transformation, transmutation
• the time period during which you are at work; work shift, duty period
• the act of changing one thing or position for another; switch, switching

  his switch on abortion cost him the election

• the act of moving from one place to another; shifting

  his constant shifting disrupted the class

• (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other; fault, faulting, geological fault, fracture, break

  they built it right over a geological fault

  he studied the faulting of the earth's crust

• a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time
• the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters; shift key
• a woman's sleeveless undergarment; chemise, shimmy, slip, teddy
• a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist; chemise, sack

v.

• make a shift in or exchange of; switch, change over

  First Joe led; then we switched

• change place or direction; dislodge, reposition

  Shift one's position

• move around; transfer

  transfer the packet from his trouser pockets to a pocket in his jacket

• move very slightly; stir, budge, agitate

  He shifted in his seat

• move from one setting or context to another

  shift the emphasis

  shift one's attention

• change in quality

  His tone shifted

• move and exchange for another

  shift the date for our class reunion

• move sideways or in an unsteady way; careen, wobble, tilt

  The ship careened out of control

• move abruptly; lurch, pitch

  The ship suddenly lurched to the left

• use a shift key on a keyboard

  She could not shift so all her letters are written in lower case

• change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change

  Grimm showed how the consonants shifted

• change gears

  you have to shift when you go down a steep hill

• lay aside, abandon, or leave for another; switch, change

  switch to a different brand of beer

  She switched psychiatrists

  The car changed lanes

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Microsoft Computer Dictionary

vb. In programming, to move the bit values one position to the left or right in a register or memory location. See also end-around shift. Compare rotate (definition 2).

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English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary

shifts|shifted|shifting
syn.: alter change substitute vary