shift
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(noun) the act of moving from one place to another |
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Synonyms: shifting |
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Related Words: motion, move, movement |
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(verb) "shift the date" |
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Related Words: replace, substitute |
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(verb) move from one setting or context to another; "shift the emphasis"; "shift one's attention" |
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Related Words: alter, change, transfer, transplant, transpose |
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(verb) change in quality; "His tone shifted" |
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Related Words: change |
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(verb) change place or direction; "Shift one's position" |
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Synonyms: dislodge, reposition |
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Related Words: beat down, displace, move |
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(noun) an event in which something is displaced without rotation |
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Synonyms: displacement |
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Related Words: amplitude, luxation, translation |
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(noun) a group of workers who work for a specific period of time |
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Related Words: day shift, day watch, evening shift, hands, manpower, men, night shift, work force, workforce |
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(noun) the time period during which you are at work |
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Synonyms: duty period, work shift |
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Related Words: day shift, evening shift, go, graveyard shift, hours, night shift, spell, split shift, swing shift, tour, trick, turn, watch |
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(verb) lay aside, abandon, or leave for another; "switch to a different brand of beer"; "She switched psychiatrists"; "The car changed lanes" |
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Synonyms: change, switch |
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Related Words: break, channel-surf, cut, diphthongize, jump, leap, surf |
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(verb) move very slightly; "He shifted in his seat" |
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Synonyms: agitate, budge, stir |
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Related Words: move |
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(verb) move around; "transfer the packet from his trouser pockets to a pocket in his jacket" |
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Synonyms: transfer |
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Related Words: bunker, carry, carry forward, carry over, displace, move, remove, shuffle, shunt, transfer, transship |
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(noun) the act of changing one thing or position for another; "his switch on abortion cost him the election" |
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Synonyms: switch, switching |
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Related Words: change, switcheroo |
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(verb) make a shift in or exchange of; "First Joe led; then we switched" |
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Synonyms: change over, switch, turn around |
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Related Words: alter, back, change |
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(verb) move abruptly |
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Synonyms: lurch, pitch |
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Related Words: move |
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(noun) a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist |
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Synonyms: chemise, sack |
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Related Words: dress, frock |
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(noun) a woman's sleeveless undergarment |
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Synonyms: chemise, shimmy, slip, teddies, teddy |
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Related Words: undergarment |
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(noun) a qualitative change |
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Synonyms: transformation, transmutation |
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Related Words: advance, alteration, betterment, change, changeover, conversion, degeneration, improvement, modification, mutation, population shift, retrogression, strengthening, sublimation, tin disease, tin pest, tin plague, transition, weakening |
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(verb) move sideways or in an unsteady way, as of a ship or a vehicle out of control |
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Synonyms: careen, sway, tilt, wobble |
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Related Words: move, totter |
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