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shift
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[ verb ] make a shift in or exchange of
Synonyms Examples "First Joe led then we switched" Used in print (Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy....)It was a relief to shift in his mind to technical problems . (Hampton Stone, The Man Who Looked Death...)To make it clearer he shifted to acting_out , but with no change of manner , the killing of Rose_Mallory . (Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land....)Jubal could n't reconstruct the crime from the way the girls behaved because patterns kept shifting - ABC vs D , then BCD vs A & & & or AB vs CD , or AD vs CB , through all ways that four women can gang_up on each other . |
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[ verb ] change place or direction
Synonyms Examples "Shift one's position" Used in print (The Providence Journal...)The sets are remarkably elaborate for a road-show that does n't pause long in any one place , and they are devised so_that they shift with a minimum of interruption or obtrusiveness . ( Several times recently I have wondered whether shows were being staged for the sake of the script or just to entertain the audience with the spectacle of scenery being shifted right in_front_of their eyes . (Edwin L. Bigelow and Nancy H. Otis,...)Since that time the telegraph office has shifted in location from the railroad_station at the Depot and shops at the Center back to the town_clerk 's office and drugstore at the Village . (Robert Penn Warren, Wilderness....)He had seen a dry , old , yellowing hand reach_out , with that painful solicitude , to touch , to rearrange , to shift aimlessly , some object worth a pfennig . With enormous interest , Adam watched his hands as they touched and shifted the objects on the board directly before him . |
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[ noun ] a qualitative change
Synonyms Used in print (James A. Ibers et al., "Proton magnetic resonance...)An isotropic resonance shift of **f to lower applied fields indicates a weak isotropic hyperfine contact interaction . The general theory of resonance shifts is used to derive a general expression for the second_moment **f of a polycrystalline paramagnetic sample and is specialized to **f . Field shifts were derived from the mean value of the resonance line , defined as the field about which the first_moment is zero . Corrections were applied for modulation broadening , apparatus background , and field shift . |
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[ noun ] an event in which something is displaced without rotation
Synonyms Used in print (E. Gellhorn, "Prolegomena to a theory of the emotions"...)Important as these differences are , they should not obscure the basic fact that by shifting the hypothalamic balance sufficiently to the parasympathetic side , we produce depressions , whereas a shift in the opposite direction causes excitatory effects and , eventually , maniclike changes . This explains the beneficial effect of electroshock_therapy in certain depressions and a shift in the reaction from hypo - to normal reactivity of the sympathetic system as shown by the Mecholyl_test . It was assumed that the shift in autonomic hypothalamic balance occurring spontaneously in neuropsychiatric patients from the application of certain therapeutic procedures follows the pattern known from the sleep wakefulness cycle . It has further been shown that : ( 1 ) an experimental neurosis in its initial stages is associated with a reversible shift in the central autonomic balance ; ( 2 ) drugs altering the hypothalamic balance alter conditioned_reactions ; ( 3 ) in a state of depression , the positive conditioned_stimulus may fail to elicit a conditioned_reaction but cause an increased synchrony instead of the excitatory desynchronizing ( alerting ) effect on the EEG . (Bruce Palmer, "My Brother's Keeper", Many Are...)In a confused , soaked and stumbling shift of bodies and lifting arms , the two men were dragged into the same skiff . Related terms |
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[ verb ] move around
Synonyms Examples "transfer the packet from his trouser pockets to a pocket in his jacket" Used in print (Cornell H. Mayer, "Radio Emission of the Moon...)The infrared_emission could then be assumed to originate at the surface of the moon , while the radio_emission originates at some depth beneath the surface , where the temperature variation due_to solar_radiation is reduced in amplitude and shifted in phase . (E. Gellhorn, "Prolegomena to a theory of the emotions"...)Although no drugs act exclusively on the hypothalamus or a part of it , there is sufficient specificity to distinguish drugs which shift the hypothalamic balance to the sympathetic side from those which produce a parasympathetic dominance . Important as these differences are , they should not obscure the basic fact that by shifting the hypothalamic balance sufficiently to the parasympathetic side , we produce depressions , whereas a shift in the opposite direction causes excitatory effects and , eventually , maniclike changes . They shift the hypothalamic balance to the sympathetic side . Related terms move remove carry_over shuffle shunt transpose translocate transship bunker carry |
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[ noun ] (work) the time period during which you are at work
Synonyms Used in print ([Anonymous,] "The Attack on Employee Services"...)What are the possibilities for operating your cafeteria for a single shift only and relying_upon vending_machines or prepackaged sandwiches for the second - and third shift operations ? What are the possibilities for operating your cafeteria for a single shift only and relying_upon vending_machines or prepackaged sandwiches for the second - and third shift operations ? Require each employee to work his last shift both before and after the holiday to be eligible for pay . Related terms hours watch go trick split_shift night_shift evening_shift day_shift workday |
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[ noun ] the act of changing one thing or position for another
Examples "his switch on abortion cost him the election" Used in print (Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)In that apparently simple shift Porter opened the way to the sensitive use of the camera as an instrument of art as_well_as a mechanical recording device . (J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)To derive Utopian communism from the Jerusalem Christian community of the apostolic age or from its medieval successors in spirit , the monastic communities , is with an appropriate shift of adjectives , misleading in the same way as to derive it from Plato 's Republic : Related terms |
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[ verb ] move from one setting or context to another
Examples "shift the emphasis" "shift one's attention" Used in print (The New York Times,...)`` As long as Mr._Khrushchev is convinced that the balance of world_power is shifting his way , no amount of either smiles or toughness , neither Camp_David talks nor kitchen debates , can compel him to enter fruitful negotiations '' . The President had set for himself the task , which he believed vital , of awakening the U._S. and its allies to the hard and complex effort necessary to shift that balance . |
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[ noun ] the act of moving from one place to another
Synonyms Examples "his constant shifting disrupted the class" Used in print (L. Don Leet and Florence J. Leet, editors, The World of...)Sometimes this is accompanied by visible shifts of the ground surface ; often the shifts cannot be seen , but they are there ; and everywhere can be found scars of earlier breaks once deeply buried . Sometimes this is accompanied by visible shifts of the ground surface ; often the shifts cannot be seen , but they are there ; and everywhere can be found scars of earlier breaks once deeply buried . |
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[ verb ] change in quality
Examples "His tone shifted" Used in print (Harold Searles, "Schizophrenic Communication,"...)One learns to become alert to changes in his vocal tone - to his voice 's suddenly shifting to a quality not like his usual one , a quality which sounds somehow artificial or , in some instances , parrotlike . Related terms |
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[ verb ] move and exchange for another
Examples "shift the date for our class reunion" Used in print (Rhode Island Legislative Council. Research Report...)One problem is a matter of shifting dates ; the other , is how to finance the transition . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
Synonyms Examples "they built it right over a geological fault" |
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[ verb ] (writing) use a shift key on a keyboard
Examples "She could not shift so all ther letters are written in lower case" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (work) a group of workers who work for a specific period of time
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