Shift can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| shift - change place or direction; "Shift one's position" | ||
| shift - move from one setting or context to another; "shift the emphasis"; "shift one's attention" | ||
| shift - move and exchange for another; "shift the date for our class reunion" | ||
| shift - change gears; "you have to shift when you go down a steep hill" | ||
| shift - change in quality; "His tone shifted" | ||
| shift - change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change; "Grimm showed how the consonants shifted" | ||
| shift - use a shift key on a keyboard; "She could not shift so all her letters are written in lower case" | ||
| shift - move around; "transfer the packet from his trouser pockets to a pocket in his jacket" | ||
| shift - lay aside, abandon, or leave for another; "switch to a different brand of beer"; "She switched psychiatrists"; "The car changed lanes" | ||
| shift - make a shift in or exchange of; "First Joe led; then we switched" | ||
| shift - move abruptly; "The ship suddenly lurched to the left" | ||
| shift - move sideways or in an unsteady way; "The ship careened out of control" | ||
| shift - move very slightly; "He shifted in his seat" | ||
Noun |
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| shift - the act of moving from one place to another; "his constant shifting disrupted the class" | ||
| shift - the time period during which you are at work | ||
| shift - an event in which something is displaced without rotation | ||
| shift - a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time | ||
| shift - a qualitative change | ||
| shift - the act of changing one thing or position for another; "his switch on abortion cost him the election" | ||
| shift - (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other; "they built it right over a geological fault"; "he studied the faulting of the earth's crust" | ||
| shift - the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters | ||
| shift - a woman's sleeveless undergarment | ||
| shift - a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist |
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| 1. | verb | Shift one's position. | |
| 2. | verb | Shift the emphasis. | |
| 3. | verb | Shift one's attention. | |
| 4. | verb | Shift the date for our class reunion. | |
| 5. | verb | You have to shift when you go down a steep hill. | |
| 6. | verb | She could not shift so all her letters are written in lower case. | |
| 7. | verb | My family and I are planning to shift to Fujairah in a couple of years. | |
| 8. | verb | When I speak to a Westerner, I have to shift mental gears, so to speak. | |
| 9. | verb | In order to keep our feet warm we had to shift from one foot to another and keep moving. | |
| 10. | verb | You're just trying to shift blame away from yourself. | |
| 11. | verb | Never shift gears when you're crossing railroad tracks, as it could cause your car to stall straddling the tracks. | |
| 12. | verb | To follow a council is to shift the responsibility. | |
| 13. | verb | European Union finance ministers agreed to new measures on Tuesday to force accountants and banks to report aggressive tax schemes that help companies shift profits to low-tax countries. | |
| 14. | verb | Sami's camera started to shift over. | |
| 15. | verb | Distillery workers say they’re happy to shift their business model because it helps the local community while also keeping them employed. | |
| 16. | noun | In a major regional shift reflecting the newly strengthened position of Karzai, Iran, Russia and India which have traditionally backed the Tajik dominated former Northern Alliance made strenuous efforts to convince presidential candidate Younis Qanooni to strike a deal with Karzai before the elections and not to oppose Karzai. | |
| 17. | noun | Freddy's been working the graveyard shift the past month, so he hasn't been able to see any of his friends who work normal hours. | |
| 18. | noun | Forming an information infrastructure, the real impact of the information highway is an expectation of new economic development due to a shift from a tangible hardware-industry to brain-oriented software-industry. | |
| 19. | noun | Shift the sofa so that it faces the fireplace. | |
| 20. | noun | Working so long on the graveyard shift made his health suffer badly. | |
| 21. | noun | I'm sorry but Paul called in sick and I'm going to need you to work his shift. | |
| 22. | noun | Tom works the night shift. | |
| 23. | noun | Tom works the evening shift. | |
| 24. | noun | Tom is on the night shift this week. | |
| 25. | noun | Tom is on the day shift this month. | |
| 26. | noun | Tom doesn't like working the graveyard shift. | |
| 27. | noun | I haven't had a night shift like that in a while. | |
| 28. | noun | This week he works the early shift. | |
| 29. | noun | Next week I'll have the late shift. | |
| 30. | noun | When you get on the highway, shift into fifth gear. |
| Sentence | |
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| verb | |
| Shift one's position. |
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| Shift the emphasis. |
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| Shift one's attention. |
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| Shift the date for our class reunion. |
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| You have to shift when you go down a steep hill. |
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| She could not shift so all her letters are written in lower case. |
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| My family and I are planning to shift to Fujairah in a couple of years. |
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| When I speak to a Westerner, I have to shift mental gears, so to speak. | |
| In order to keep our feet warm we had to shift from one foot to another and keep moving. | |
| You're just trying to shift blame away from yourself. | |
| Never shift gears when you're crossing railroad tracks, as it could cause your car to stall straddling the tracks. | |
| To follow a council is to shift the responsibility. | |
| European Union finance ministers agreed to new measures on Tuesday to force accountants and banks to report aggressive tax schemes that help companies shift profits to low-tax countries. | |
| Sami's camera started to shift over. | |
| Distillery workers say they’re happy to shift their business model because it helps the local community while also keeping them employed. | |
| noun | |
| In a major regional shift reflecting the newly strengthened position of Karzai, Iran, Russia and India which have traditionally backed the Tajik dominated former Northern Alliance made strenuous efforts to convince presidential candidate Younis Qanooni to strike a deal with Karzai before the elections and not to oppose Karzai. |
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| Freddy's been working the graveyard shift the past month, so he hasn't been able to see any of his friends who work normal hours. | |
| Forming an information infrastructure, the real impact of the information highway is an expectation of new economic development due to a shift from a tangible hardware-industry to brain-oriented software-industry. | |
| Shift the sofa so that it faces the fireplace. | |
| Working so long on the graveyard shift made his health suffer badly. | |
| I'm sorry but Paul called in sick and I'm going to need you to work his shift. | |
| Tom works the night shift. | |
| Tom works the evening shift. | |
| Tom is on the night shift this week. | |
| Tom is on the day shift this month. | |
| Tom doesn't like working the graveyard shift. | |
| I haven't had a night shift like that in a while. | |
| This week he works the early shift. | |
| Next week I'll have the late shift. | |
| When you get on the highway, shift into fifth gear. | |