Etymology : Middle English, from Old English sciftan to divide, arrange; akin to Old Norse skipa to arrange, assign
Pronunciation : shift
Function : verb
Date : 13th century
1. scheduled work period; change in position, change in direction; replacement, substitution; transfer, exchange; ruse, trick; loose-fitting woman's dress; woman's slip. move; cause to move; transfer from one place to another; exchange, switch; change gears; manage on one's own. shift\shift\ , v. t. [imp. & p. p. shifted; p. pr. & vb. n. shifting.] [oe. shiften, schiften, to divide, change, remove. as. sciftan to divide; akin to lg. & d. schiften to divide, distinguish, part icel. skipta to divide, to part, to shift, to change, dan skifte, sw. skifta, and probably to icel. skīfa to cut into slices, as n., a slice, and to e. shive, sheave, n., shiver, n.].
2. to divide; to distribute; to apportion. [obs.] to which god of his bounty would shift crowns two of flowers well smelling.
3. to change the place of; to move or remove from one place to another; as, to shift a burden from one shoulder to another; to shift the blame. hastily he schifte him[self]. pare saffron between the two st. mary's days, or set or go shift it that knowest the ways.
4. to change the position of; to alter the bearings of; to turn; as, to shift the helm or sails. carrying the oar loose, [they] shift it hither and thither at pleasure. w. raleigh.
5. to exchange for another of the same class; to remove and to put some similar thing in its place; to change; as, to shift the clothes; to shift the scenes. i would advise you to shift a shirt.
6. to change the clothing of; -- used reflexively. [obs.] as it were to ride day and night; and not to have patience to shift me.
7. to put off or out of the way by some expedient. "i shifted him away.".
8. To divide; to distribute; to apportion.
9. To change the place of; to move or remove from one place to another; as, to shift a burden from one shoulder to another; to shift the blame.
10. To change the position of; to alter the bearings of; to turn; as, to shift the helm or sails.
11. To exchange for another of the same class; to remove and to put some similar thing in its place; to change; as, to shift the clothes; to shift the scenes.
12. To change the clothing of; used reflexively.
13. To put off or out of the way by some expedient.
14. To divide; to distribute.
15. To make a change or changes; to change position; to move; to veer; to substitute one thing for another; used in the various senses of the transitive verb.
16. To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
17. To practice indirect or evasive methods.
18. To slip to one side of a ship, so as to destroy the equilibrum; said of ballast or cargo; as, the cargo shifted.
19. The act of shifting.
20. The act of putting one thing in the place of another, or of changing the place of a thing; change; substitution.
21. Something frequently shifted; especially, a woman's under-garment; a chemise.
22. The change of one set of workmen for another; hence, a spell, or turn, of work; also, a set of workmen who work in turn with other sets; as, a night shift.
23. In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
24. A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
25. A change of the position of the hand on the finger board, in playing the violin. the act of moving from one place to another; "his constant shifting disrupted the class" an event in which something is displaced without rotation a group of workers who work for a specific period of time the time period during which you are at work move and exchange for another; "shift the date for our class reunion" change gears; "you have to shift when you go down a steep hill" move from one setting or context to another; "shift the emphasis"; "shift one's attention" change in quality; "His tone shifted" 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 ther letters are written in lower case" change place or direction; "Shift one's position".
26. 1. If you shift something or if it shifts, it moves slightly. He stopped, shifting his cane to his left hand He shifted from foot to foot The entire pile shifted and slid, thumping onto the floor. the squeak of his boots in the snow as he shifted his weight.
27. If someone's opinion, a situation, or a policy shifts or is shifted, it changes slightly. Attitudes to mental illness have shifted in recent years The emphasis should be shifted more towards Parliament. Shift is also a noun. a shift in government policy.
28. disapproval If someone shifts the responsibility or blame for something onto you, they unfairly make you responsible or make people blame you for it, instead of them. It was a vain attempt to shift the responsibility for the murder to somebody else.
29. If a shop or company shifts goods, they sell goods that are difficult to sell. Some suppliers were selling at a loss to shift stock.
30. If you shift gears in a car, you put the car into a different gear.
31. If a group of factory workers, nurses, or other people work shifts, they work for a set period before being replaced by another group, so that there is always a group working. Each of these set periods is called a shift. You can also use shift to refer to a group of workers who work together on a particular shift. His father worked shifts in a steel mill. see also:
shifting.
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