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shift
English
Etymology
From Middle English schiften, from Old English s?iftan (“to divide, separate into shares; appoint, ordain; arrange, organise”), from Proto-Germanic *skiftijan?, *skiptijan?, from earlier *skipatjan? (“to organise, put in order”), from Proto-Indo-European *skeyb- (“to separate, divide, part”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut, divide, separate, part”). Cognate with Scots schift, skift (“to shift”), West Frisian skifte, skiftsje (“to sort”), Dutch schiften (“to sort, screen, winnow, part”), German schichten (“to stack, layer”), Swedish skifta (“to shift, change, exchange, vary”), Norwegian skifte (“to shift”), Icelandic skipta (“to switch”). See ship.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) enPR: sh?ft, IPA(key): /??ft/
- (Canada)
- Rhymes: -?ft
Noun
shift (countable and uncountable, plural shifts)
- (historical) A type of women's undergarment, a slip.
- Just last week she bought a new shift at the market.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 47
- Some wear black shifts and flesh-coloured stockings; some with curly hair, dyed yellow, are dressed like little girls in short muslin frocks.
- A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
- We'll work three shifts a day till the job's done.
- An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
- There was a shift in the political atmosphere.
- c. 1620-1626, Henry Wotton, letter to Nicholas Pey
- My going to Oxford was not merely for shift of air.
- (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
- Does it come with a stick-shift?
- Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).
- If you press shift-P, the preview display will change.
- (computing) A bit shift.
- (baseball) The infield shift.
- Teams often use the shift against this lefty.
- (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of kissing passionately.
- (archaic) A contrivance, a device to try when other methods fail.
- 1596, Shakespeare, History of King John
- If I get down, and do not break my limbs,
- I'll find a thousand shifts to get away:
- As good to die and go, as die and stay.
- 1596, Shakespeare, History of King John
- (archaic) A trick, an artifice.
- 1593, Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
- And if the boy have not a woman's gift
- To rain a shower of commanded tears,
- An onion will do well for such a shift
- Little souls on little shifts rely.
- 1593, Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
- (construction) The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
- (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
- (genetics) A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
- (music) In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
shift (third-person singular simple present shifts, present participle shifting, simple past and past participle shifted)
- (transitive, sometimes figuratively) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
- (transitive, figuratively) To change in form or character; swap.
- 2008, June Granatir Alexander, Ethnic Pride, American Patriotism (page ix)
- As a result, I shifted my approach to focus on group-generated activities and broadened the chronological time frame.
- 2008, June Granatir Alexander, Ethnic Pride, American Patriotism (page ix)
- (intransitive) To change position.
- (intransitive, India) To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.
- Synonym: move
- (obsolete, transitive) To change (clothes, especially underwear).
- , II.ii.2:
- 'Tis very good to wash his hands and face often, to shift his clothes, to have fair linen about him, to be decently and comely attired […].
- , II.ii.2:
- (obsolete, transitive, reflexive) To change (someone's) clothes; sometimes specifically, to change underwear.
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act V, Scene 5,[3]
- As it were, to ride day and night; and […] not to have patience to shift me.
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, I.21:
- The first thing he did was to secure a convenient lodging at the inn where he dined; then he shifted himself, and according to the direction he had received, went to the house of Mrs. Gauntlet […] .
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act V, Scene 5,[3]
- (intransitive) To change gears (in a car).
- (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.
- (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.
- (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
- (transitive, computing) To remove the first value from an array.
- (transitive) To dispose of.
- (intransitive) To hurry; to move quickly.
- (Ireland, vulgar, slang) To engage in sexual petting.
- (archaic) To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
- 1692, Roger L’Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists with Morals and Reflexions, London: R. Sare et al., Fable 83, Reflexion, p. 81,[4]
- […] men in distress will look to themselves in the First Place, and leave their Companions to Shift as well as they can.
- 1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, p. 112,[5]
- My Fellow-Slaves were […] as courteous to me as I could well-expect; and as they had Plantations of their own, they gave me […] such Victuals as they had; especially on dark Nights, and at such Times as I could not shift for myself.
- 1692, Roger L’Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists with Morals and Reflexions, London: R. Sare et al., Fable 83, Reflexion, p. 81,[4]
- To practice indirect or evasive methods.
- 1614, Walter Raleigh, History of the World, London: Walter Burre, Part 1, Chapter 3, Section 7, p. 45,[6]
- But this I dare auow of all those Schoole-men, that though they were exceeding wittie, yet they better teach all their Followers to shift, then to resolue, by their distinctions.
- 1614, Walter Raleigh, History of the World, London: Walter Burre, Part 1, Chapter 3, Section 7, p. 45,[6]
- (music) In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut.
Synonyms
- (to change, swap): interchange, swap; See also Thesaurus:switch
- (to move from one place to another): relocate, transfer; See also Thesaurus:move
- (to change position): reposition
- (to dispose of): get rid of, remove; See also Thesaurus:junk
- (to hurry): hasten, rush; See also Thesaurus:rush
- (to engage in sexual petting): fondle, grope; see also Thesaurus:fondle
Antonyms
- (computing): unshift
Derived terms
- ever-shifting, evershifting
- preshift
- unshift
Translations
Portuguese
Noun
shift m (plural shifts)
- shift (button on a keyboard)
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conversion
English
Etymology
From Middle English conversion, conversioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conversion, from Latin conversi?, from convert?.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /k?n?v???(?)n/, /-?(?)n/
- (US) enPR: k?n-vûr?zh?n, IPA(key): /k?n?v???n/
- Rhymes: -??(?)??n, -??(?)??n
- Hyphenation: con?ver?sion
Noun
conversion (countable and uncountable, plural conversions)
- The act of converting something or someone.
- (computing) A software product converted from one platform to another.
- 1988, Crash (issue 59, December 1988)
- Mike Follin […] also programmed the Spectrum version of The Sentinel (97%, Issue 40), and the excellent coin-op conversions Bubble Bobble (90%, Issue 45) and Bionic Commando (92%, Issue 53).
- 1988, Crash (issue 59, December 1988)
- (chemistry) A chemical reaction wherein a substrate is transformed into a product.
- (rugby) A free kick, after scoring a try, worth two points.
- (American football) An extra point (or two) scored by kicking a field goal or carrying the ball into the end zone after scoring a touchdown.
- (marketing) An online advertising performance metric representing a visitor performing whatever the intended result of an ad is defined to be.
- (law) Under the common law, the tort of the taking of someone's personal property with intent to permanently deprive them of it, or damaging property to the extent that the owner is deprived of the utility of that property, thus making the tortfeasor liable for the entire value of the property.
- Or bring my action of conversion / And trover for my goods.
- (linguistics) The process whereby a new word is created without changing the form, often by allowing the word to function as a new part of speech.
- Hyponyms: anthimeria, shift, shifting
- (obsolete) The act of turning round; revolution; rotation.
- (logic) The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or vice versa.
- (mathematics) A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition.
Antonyms
- deconversion
Hyponyms
- type conversion
Derived terms
Related terms
- convert
Translations
See also
- penalty
French
Etymology
From Latin conversi?, from convert?.
Pronunciation
Noun
conversion f (plural conversions)
- conversion
Related terms
- convertir
Further reading
- “conversion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- convierons
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