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Word: shift (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • a button on a keyboard, chiefly for switching between upper and lower case
  • a change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time
  • an act of shifting; a slight movement or change
  • baseball The infield shift.
  • computing a bit shift
  • historical a type of women's undergarment, a slip
  • US the gear mechanism in a motor vehicle

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Verb:

  • intransitive To change gears (in a car).
  • intransitive to change position.
  • intransitive to hurry.
  • crude|_|slang to engage in sexual petting.
  • transitive To change (one's clothes); also to change (someone's) underclothes.
  • computing to remove the first value from an array.
  • transitive To change, swap.
  • transitive to dispose of.
  • transitive to move from one place to another; to redistribute.

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