Shifting can be categorized as a noun, a verb and an adjective.
Adjective |
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| shifting - changing position or direction; "he drifted into the shifting crowd"; "their nervous shifting glances"; "shifty winds" | ||
| shifting - (of soil) unstable; "shifting sands"; "unfirm earth" | ||
| shifting - continuously varying; "taffeta with shifting colors" | ||
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. | adj. | He drifted into the shifting crowd. | |
| 2. | adj. | Their nervous shifting glances. | |
| 3. | adj. | Shifting sands. | |
| 4. | adj. | Taffeta with shifting colors. | |
| 5. | noun | Such consequences include shifting and, in some cases, contraction of ranges and changes in species composition within ecosystems. | |
| 6. | 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. | |
| 7. | 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. | |
| 8. | 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. | |
| 9. | noun | Shift the sofa so that it faces the fireplace. | |
| 10. | noun | Working so long on the graveyard shift made his health suffer badly. | |
| 11. | noun | I'm sorry but Paul called in sick and I'm going to need you to work his shift. | |
| 12. | noun | Tom works the night shift. | |
| 13. | noun | Tom works the evening shift. | |
| 14. | noun | Tom is on the night shift this week. | |
| 15. | noun | Tom is on the day shift this month. | |
| 16. | noun | Tom doesn't like working the graveyard shift. | |
| 17. | noun | I haven't had a night shift like that in a while. | |
| 18. | noun | This week he works the early shift. | |
| 19. | noun | Next week I'll have the late shift. | |
| 20. | verb | The target for NASA & Company probably to get by 2018 all the ambitious space program countries shifting towards this model, through the propaganda of another moon mission; deliberately failing this or trying hard for another moon landing hoax; achieving the real aim of space unity between space programs of other countries. | |
| 21. | verb | The shifting pattern of world trade is made clear in the following table. | |
| 22. | verb | He kept shifting his weight from one foot to the other. | |
| 23. | verb | On either side of the Equator the prevailing winds blow in opposite directions. Shifting of the boundary north and south creates the monsoon. | |
| 24. | verb | The U.S. Pacific Islands region includes more than 2,000 islands spanning millions of square miles of ocean. Rising air and ocean temperatures, shifting rainfall patterns, changing frequencies and intensities of storms and drought, decreasing streamflows, rising sea levels, and changing ocean chemistry will threaten the sustainability of globally important and diverse ecosystems as well as local communities, livelihoods, and cultures. | |
| 25. | verb | The wind is shifting. | |
| 26. | verb | Politics in this country is shifting towards the center. | |
| 27. | verb | Politics in this country is shifting towards the right. | |
| 28. | verb | Politics in this country is shifting towards the left. | |
| 29. | verb | "Through shifting hazards, by the Fates' decree, / to Latin shores we steer, our promised land to see. / There quiet settlements the Fates display, / there Troy her ruined fortunes shall repair. / Bear up; reserve you for a happier day." | |
| 30. | verb | Far away / he sees the firmament all calm and clear, / and from the stern gives signal. We obey, / and shifting camp, set sail and tempt the doubtful way. | |
| 31. | verb | I stood there shifting from one foot to the other as I waited for Tom to get out of the bathroom. | |
| 32. | verb | I feel like my opinions are constantly shifting. | |
| 33. | verb | Algeria is shifting towards a more market-oriented economy. | |
| 34. | verb | Algeria is shifting towards a free market economy. |
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| adj. | |
| He drifted into the shifting crowd. |
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| Their nervous shifting glances. |
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| Shifting sands. |
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| Taffeta with shifting colors. |
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| noun | |
| Such consequences include shifting and, in some cases, contraction of ranges and changes in species composition within ecosystems. |
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| 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. | |
| verb | |
| The target for NASA & Company probably to get by 2018 all the ambitious space program countries shifting towards this model, through the propaganda of another moon mission; deliberately failing this or trying hard for another moon landing hoax; achieving the real aim of space unity between space programs of other countries. |
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| The shifting pattern of world trade is made clear in the following table. | |
| He kept shifting his weight from one foot to the other. | |
| On either side of the Equator the prevailing winds blow in opposite directions. Shifting of the boundary north and south creates the monsoon. | |
| The U.S. Pacific Islands region includes more than 2,000 islands spanning millions of square miles of ocean. Rising air and ocean temperatures, shifting rainfall patterns, changing frequencies and intensities of storms and drought, decreasing streamflows, rising sea levels, and changing ocean chemistry will threaten the sustainability of globally important and diverse ecosystems as well as local communities, livelihoods, and cultures. | |
| The wind is shifting. | |
| Politics in this country is shifting towards the center. | |
| Politics in this country is shifting towards the right. | |
| Politics in this country is shifting towards the left. | |
| "Through shifting hazards, by the Fates' decree, / to Latin shores we steer, our promised land to see. / There quiet settlements the Fates display, / there Troy her ruined fortunes shall repair. / Bear up; reserve you for a happier day." | |
| Far away / he sees the firmament all calm and clear, / and from the stern gives signal. We obey, / and shifting camp, set sail and tempt the doubtful way. | |
| I stood there shifting from one foot to the other as I waited for Tom to get out of the bathroom. | |
| I feel like my opinions are constantly shifting. | |
| Algeria is shifting towards a more market-oriented economy. | |
| Algeria is shifting towards a free market economy. | |