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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)

  1. (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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
    Does it come with a stick-shift?
  5. Alternative spelling of Shift (a modifier button of computer keyboards).
    If you press shift-P, the preview display will change.
  6. (computing) A bit shift.
  7. (baseball) The infield shift.
    Teams often use the shift against this lefty.
  8. (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of kissing passionately.
  9. (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.
  10. (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.
  11. (construction) The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
  12. (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
  13. (genetics) A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
  14. (music) In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.

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Verb

shift (third-person singular simple present shifts, present participle shifting, simple past and past participle shifted)

  1. (transitive, sometimes figuratively) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
  2. (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.
  3. (intransitive) To change position.
  4. (intransitive, India) To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.
    Synonym: move
  5. (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 […].
  6. (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 [] .
  7. (intransitive) To change gears (in a car).
  8. (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.
  9. (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.
  10. (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
  11. (transitive, computing) To remove the first value from an array.
  12. (transitive) To dispose of.
  13. (intransitive) To hurry; to move quickly.
  14. (Ireland, vulgar, slang) To engage in sexual petting.
  15. (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.
  16. 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.
  17. (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)

  1. shift (button on a keyboard)

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reformation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin reformatio, reformationis (reform, change), from ref?rm? (transform, reshape), from re- + f?rm? (shape, form).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /???f??me??n?/
  • (US) IPA(key): /???f??me??n?/
  • Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

reformation (countable and uncountable, plural reformations)

  1. An improvement (or an intended improvement) in the existing form or condition of institutions or practices, etc.; intended to make a striking change for the better in social, political or religious affairs or in the conduct of persons or operation of organizations.
    • 1590, Sir Philip Sidney, Book 2:
      [] olde men long nusled in corruption, scorning them that would seeke reformation []
    • ca. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act I, sc. 2:
      And like bright metal on a sullen ground,
      My reformation, glittering o'er my fault,
      Shall show more goodly, and attract more eyes
      Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
    • 1625, Francis Bacon, "Of Innovation"
      It is good also, not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident; and well to beware, that it be the reformation, that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change, that pretendeth the reformation.
    • 1677, John Dryden, The State of Innocence and the Fall of Man, Author's Apology:
      [] satire lashes vice into reformation, and humour represents folly so as to render it ridiculous.
  2. (law) Change or correction, by a court in equity, to a written instrument to conform to the original intention of the parties.
    • 1893, Christopher Gustavus Tiedeman, A Treatise on Equity Jurisprudence, Chapter XXIX, §507 (footnotes omitted):
      All sorts of legal instruments may be reformed by equity, when the errors, which have been committed in the execution of them, are mutual mistakes or a mistake of one party combined with the fraud of the other. Thus, reformation has been decreed of all kinds of deeds of conveyance, including leases, mortgages, deeds of trust, marriage and family settlements. Likewise, bonds of all kinds, policies of insurance, assignments or release of mortgages, executory contracts for the sale of lands, the indorsement of a note, agreements for the establishment of a highway, military orders. So may, also, judgments and other records be corrected or be reformed.

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Further reading

  • Protestant Reformation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

re- +? formation

Pronunciation

Noun

reformation f (plural reformations)

  1. re-formation

See also

  • réformation

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