[zeinabdeen]

Shift:
verb (used with object)
1.
to put (something) aside and replace it by another or others; change or exchange: to shift friends; to shift ideas.


2.
to transfer from one place, position, person, etc., to another: to shift the blame onto someone else.


3.
Automotive. to change (gears) from one ratio or arrangement to another.


4.
Linguistics. to change in a systematic way, esp. phonetically.

–verb (used without object)
5.
to move from one place, position, direction, etc., to another.


6.
to manage to get along or succeed by oneself.


7.
to get along by indirect methods; use any expediency, trick, or evasion to get along or succeed: He shifted through life.


8.
to change gears in driving an automobile.


9.
Linguistics. to undergo a systematic, esp. phonetic, change.


10.
to press a shift key, as on a typewriter keyboard.


11.
Archaic. to change one's clothes.



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