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Noun
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters
- a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time
- (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
- the act of moving from one place to another
- his constant shifting disrupted the class
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- his switch on abortion cost him the election
- the time period during which you are at work
- an event in which something is displaced without rotation
Verb
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
- switch to a different brand of beer
- She switched psychiatrists
- change gears
- you have to shift when you go down a steep hill
- change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change
- Grimm showed how the consonants shifted
- use a shift key on a keyboard
- She could not shift so all her letters are written in lower case
- move abruptly
- The ship suddenly lurched to the left
- move sideways or in an unsteady way
- The ship careened out of control
- move and exchange for another
- shift the date for our class reunion
- move from one setting or context to another
- move around
- transfer the packet from his trouser pockets to a pocket in his jacket
- change place or direction
- make a shift in or exchange of; then we switched"