The meaning of Shift

noun

The action or process of adapting or being adapted.

Usage examples:

The adaptation of teaching strategy to meet students' needs

noun

Something produced to adjust to different conditions or uses, or to meet different situations

Usage examples:

[ c ] the movie was an adaptation of a novel.

noun

A small alteration or movement made to achieve a desired fit, appearance, or result.

Usage examples:

I've made a few adjustments to my diet

noun

A slight change made to something to make it fit, work better, or be more suitable, or the act of making such a change

Usage examples:

A small adjustment at the right place can make a significant difference., if the colour does not ap…

noun

The action or process of altering or being altered.

Usage examples:

Careful alteration of old buildings

noun

A minor change or addition designed to improve a text, piece of legislation, etc.

Usage examples:

An amendment to existing bail laws

noun

A change or addition to the us constitution

Usage examples:

The first/fifth/fourteenth amendment, a constitutional amendment

noun

A change made to something, especially the words of a text

Usage examples:

He insisted that the speech did not need any amendment., make amendments other countries have based…

noun

Clever or cunning devices or expedients, especially as used to trick or deceive others.

Usage examples:

An industry dominated by artifice

noun

(the use of) a clever trick or something intended to deceive

Usage examples:

Amazingly for hollywood, she seems almost entirely without artifice.

verb

Carry the weight of; support.

Usage examples:

The bees form large colonies and need the thick branches of tall trees to bear the weight of their …

noun

A large, heavy mammal that walks on the soles of its feet, having thick fur and a very short tail. bears are related to the dog family but most species are omnivorous.

Usage examples:

Recent dna analysis indicates that giant pandas are more closely related to bears and red pandas ar…

noun

Be pregnant with

verb

Take or go with (someone or something) to a place.

Usage examples:

She brought luke home from hospital

verb

To take or carry someone or something to a place or a person, or in the direction of the person speaking

Usage examples:

Bring me that book./bring that book to me., i brought my daughter to the office., [ m ] next time y…

verb

To make something come to a particular place, point, or level

Usage examples:

Producers need to bring oil production to levels that create more stable and more sustainable oil p…

verb

Support and move (someone or something) from one place to another.

Usage examples:

Medics were carrying a wounded man on a stretcher

noun

An act of carrying something from one place to another.

Usage examples:

We did a carry of equipment from the camp

verb

To transport or take from one place to another

Usage examples:

The plane carried 116 passengers and a crew of seven., would you like me to carry your bag for you?…

noun

A strong open vehicle with two or four wheels, typically used for carrying loads and pulled by a horse.

Usage examples:

A horse and cart

verb

Convey or put in a cart or similar vehicle.

Usage examples:

The meat was pickled in salt and carted to el paso

noun

A vehicle with either two or four wheels that is pushed by a person, or pulled by an animal, esp. a horse, and is used for carrying goods

verb

Make (someone or something) different; alter or modify.

Usage examples:

Both parties voted against proposals to change the law

noun

An act or process through which something becomes different.

Usage examples:

The change from a nomadic to an agricultural society

verb

Transport or carry to a place.

Usage examples:

Pipes were laid to convey water to the house

noun

The action or process of transporting or carrying someone or something from one place to another.

Usage examples:

A busy centre for the conveyance of agricultural produce from the billingshurst area

noun

A legal document that states that land or property has passed from one owner to another

Usage examples:

Notaries have the right to prepare wills, conveyances, and other contracts., the expense of the con…

noun

The action of deceiving someone.

Usage examples:

Obtaining property by deception

noun

A thing made or adapted for a particular purpose, especially a piece of mechanical or electronic equipment.

Usage examples:

A measuring device

noun

An object or machine that has been invented to fulfill a particular purpose

Usage examples:

A handheld device, a safety device, electronic/mechanical devices, he invented a device for measuri…

noun

An object or machine which has been invented for a particular purpose

Usage examples:

Biotech and medical devices, you should not use any personal electronic device, such as a cell phon…

verb

Take over the place, position, or role of.

Usage examples:

He believes that books may be displaced by the electronic word

verb

To force something or someone out of its usual or original place

Usage examples:

A major government offensive against rebel groups threatens to displace large numbers of people.

verb

Avoid (someone or something) by a sudden quick movement.

Usage examples:

Marchers had to dodge missiles thrown by loyalists

noun

A sudden quick movement to avoid someone or something.

Usage examples:

A guard shot at me but with a quick dodge from my new agility i managed to avoid at it.

verb

A quick evasive movement

adjective

(of an action) convenient and practical although possibly improper or immoral.

Usage examples:

Either side could break the agreement if it were expedient to do so

noun

A means of attaining an end, especially one that is convenient but possibly improper or immoral.

Usage examples:

The current policy is a political expedient

adjective

Helpful or useful in a particular situation, and without considering any moral question that might influence your decision

Usage examples:

We thought it expedient not to pay the builder until he finished the work., political expediency

verb

Go for and then bring back (someone or something) for someone.

Usage examples:

He ran to fetch help

noun

The distance travelled by wind or waves across open water.

Usage examples:

Wave disturbance was estimated by measuring the fetch for wave height on maps as the width of the r…

noun

The apparition or double of a living person, formerly believed to be a warning of that person's impending death.

Usage examples:

I saw a fetch who looked like me

verb

(of a person) pull or drag with effort or force.

Usage examples:

He hauled his bike out of the shed

noun

A quantity of something that has been stolen or is possessed illegally.

Usage examples:

They escaped with a haul of antiques

verb

Draw slowly or heavily

verb

Carry or drag (a heavy or bulky object) with great effort.

Usage examples:

She began to lug her suitcase down the stairs

noun

A box or crate used for transporting fruit.

Usage examples:

A truck piled high with wooden lugs of grapes

noun

A person's ear.

Usage examples:

I couldn't hear what they were saying with that leather over my lugs

verb

Go in a specified direction or manner; change position.

Usage examples:

She moved to the door

noun

A change of place, position, or state.

Usage examples:

She made a sudden move towards me

verb

Change location

noun

An act of moving.

Usage examples:

A slight movement of the body

noun

The act or process of changing a situation or event, or of changing the way something happens or is done

Usage examples:

[ c ] there has been a movement toward smaller families., the women’s movement works for better job…

noun

A change in a number, price, etc. for example on a financial market

Usage examples:

Movements in sth short-term movements in currency are difficult to predict., this stock market repo…

noun

A detailed proposal for doing or achieving something.

Usage examples:

The un peace plan

verb

Decide on and make arrangements for in advance.

Usage examples:

They were planning a trip to egypt

verb

A series of steps to be carried out or goals to be achieved

verb

Change the position of.

Usage examples:

She rearranged her skirt as she sat back in her chair

verb

To change the order, position, or time of arrangements already made

Usage examples:

Our bedrooms are so small we can’t rearrange the furniture., [ c ] there was a last-minute rearrang…

noun

The action or process of changing the position, time, or order of something.

Usage examples:

Rearrangement of the furniture

noun

The act of changing the order, position, or time of arrangements already made

Usage examples:

A rearrangement of/to our plans, as students of chemistry know, even small rearrangements of a mole…

verb

Give (a metal object) a different form by melting it down and reshaping it.

Usage examples:

In 1919, the bells were recast

verb

Move to a new place and establish one's home or business there.

Usage examples:

Sixty workers could face redundancy because the firm is relocating

verb

To move to a new place

Usage examples:

[ i ] the company will relocate, but a new home has not been chosen yet., big contracts make the re…

verb

To move to a different place to work, or to be moved to a different place to work

Usage examples:

Many businesses in the region have closed or relocated abroad., relocate (sb/sth) to/from/in somewh…

noun

The action of moving to a new place and establishing one's home or business there.

Usage examples:

The planned relocation of national headquarters to warwickshire

noun

The process of moving to a different place to work, or of moving employees to a different place to work

Usage examples:

Those in charge of planning the relocation will need to establish exactly what key tasks need to be…

verb

Place in a different position; adjust or alter the position of.

Usage examples:

Try repositioning the thermostat in another room

verb

To change the way that people think about a product, service, or company

Usage examples:

She has completely repositioned the newspaper, from the political right to a broadly left of centre…

verb

Place in a different position; adjust or alter the position of.

Usage examples:

Try repositioning the thermostat in another room

noun

An action intended to deceive someone; a trick.

Usage examples:

Emma tried to think of a ruse to get paul out of the house

proper noun

An industrial city and the principal port of bulgaria, on the river danube; population 156,959 (2008). turkish during the middle ages, it was captured by russia in 1877 and ceded to bulgaria.

noun

A large-scale systematic plan or arrangement for attaining a particular object or putting a particular idea into effect.

Usage examples:

The occupational sick pay scheme

verb

Make plans, especially in a devious way or with intent to do something illegal or wrong.

Usage examples:

Envious of their wealth, he schemed to bring about their downfall

noun

A plan for doing or organizing something

Usage examples:

The committee came up with a creative fundraising scheme., the yellow and white color scheme bright…

adjective

Changing, especially unpredictably.

Usage examples:

Diverse districts with shifting demographics

verb

Move or cause to move from one place to another, especially over a small distance.

Usage examples:

A team from the power company came to shift the cables away from the house

adjective

Changing all the time

Usage examples:

Our marketing needs to keep up with shifting consumer profiles.

verb

Move smoothly along a surface while maintaining continuous contact with it.

Usage examples:

She slid down the bank into the water

noun

A structure with a smooth sloping surface for children to slide down.

Usage examples:

Anna played on the slide

verb

Move smoothly along a surface

verb

Lose one's footing and slide unintentionally for a short distance.

Usage examples:

I slipped over on the ice

noun

An act of sliding unintentionally for a short distance.

Usage examples:

A single slip could send them plummeting down the mountainside

noun

A small piece of paper, typically a form for writing on or one giving printed information.

Usage examples:

His monthly salary slip

verb

Supply a very ungenerous or inadequate amount of (something).

Usage examples:

Stowage room hasn't been stinted

noun

A person's fixed or allotted period of work.

Usage examples:

His varied career included a stint as a magician

noun

A small short-legged sandpiper of northern eurasia and alaska, with a brownish back and white underparts.

Usage examples:

More than half a dozen species of birds have come to roost, which include black-winged stilts, catt…

noun

A plan or scheme, especially one used to outwit an opponent or achieve an end.

Usage examples:

A series of devious stratagems

noun

A plan or trick to achieve something

Usage examples:

Barry devised several stratagems for escape.

noun

A plan of action designed to achieve a long-term or overall aim.

Usage examples:

Time to develop a coherent economic strategy

noun

A long-range plan for achieving something or reaching a goal, or the skill of making such plans

Usage examples:

[ u ] chess is a game that requires strategy., the hill was of strategic importance for control of …

noun

The way in which a business, government, or other organization carefully plans its actions over a period of time to improve its position and achieve what it wants

Usage examples:

Business environments and strategies are constantly changing in response to economic and financial …

verb

(of something soft or elastic) be made or be capable of being made longer or wider without tearing or breaking.

Usage examples:

My jumper stretched in the wash

noun

An act of stretching one's limbs or body.

Usage examples:

I got up and had a stretch

verb

To reach across a distance or become longer or wider, or to cause something to do this

Usage examples:

[ i ] rubber stretches when you pull it., [ t ] the banner was stretched across the street., [ m ] …

noun

Deceit used in order to achieve one's goal.

Usage examples:

He had to use subterfuge and bluff on many occasions

noun

An action taken to hide something from someone

Usage examples:

[ u ] his excuse sounded more like subterfuge than a real reason.

noun

A device for making and breaking the connection in an electric circuit.

Usage examples:

The guard hit a switch and the gate swung open

verb

Change the position, direction, or focus of.

Usage examples:

The company switched the boats to other routes

verb

Device for making or breaking the connections in a circuit

verb

Lay hold of (something) with one's hands; reach for and hold.

Usage examples:

Mrs morgan took another biscuit

noun

A scene or sequence of sound or vision photographed or recorded continuously at one time.

Usage examples:

He completed a particularly difficult scene in two takes

verb

Get into one's hands

verb

Move from one place to another.

Usage examples:

He intends to transfer the fund's assets to the treasury

noun

An act of moving something or someone to another place, organization, team, etc.

Usage examples:

A transfer of wealth to the eu's poorer nations

verb

Move from one place to another

noun

The action of transferring something or the process of being transferred.

Usage examples:

Education involves the transference of knowledge

noun

The transfer of ideas or methods from one situation to another

verb

Take or carry (people or goods) from one place to another by means of a vehicle, aircraft, or ship.

Usage examples:

The bulk of freight traffic was transported by lorry

noun

A system or means of conveying people or goods from place to place.

Usage examples:

Many possess their own forms of transport

verb

To take goods or people from one place to another

Usage examples:

The movers will transport thousands of pictures, charts, and recordings to the library., in many ci…

verb

Cause (two or more things) to exchange places.

Usage examples:

The situation might have been the same if the parties in opposition and government had been transpo…

noun

A matrix obtained from a given matrix by interchanging each row and the corresponding column.

Usage examples:

The new matrix is called the transpose of a

verb

To change the order of something

Usage examples:

The total was wrong because i had transposed two numbers.

noun

The action of transposing something.

Usage examples:

Transposition of word order

noun

The act or process of changing something from one position to another, or of exchanging the positions of two things

Usage examples:

In accounting, an error in copying a number from one place to another is a transposition error., so…

noun

A cunning act or scheme intended to deceive or outwit someone.

Usage examples:

He's a double-dealer capable of any mean trick

verb

Cunningly deceive or outwit.

Usage examples:

Many people have been tricked by villains with false identity cards

adjective

Intended or used to deceive or mystify, or to create an illusion.

Usage examples:

A trick question

noun

A change or slight difference in condition, amount, or level, typically within certain limits.

Usage examples:

Regional variations in house prices

noun

Change in quality, amount, or level

Usage examples:

[ u ] the variation in the price during the past month is startling., [ c ] her movies are all vari…

noun

A change in the amount or level of something

Usage examples:

Unemployment rates for individual counties are not adjusted for seasonal variations., variation in …

noun

Devious or cunning stratagems employed in manipulating or persuading someone to do what one wants.

Usage examples:

She didn't employ any feminine wiles to capture his attention

verb

Lure; entice.

Usage examples:

She could be neither driven nor wiled into the parish kirk

adjective

Very bad; terrible.

Usage examples:

He was wile when he was young