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A mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears
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shifter
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 One who, or that which, shifts or changes. 2 (context dated English) One who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener. 3 (context nautical English) An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions. 4 (context ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A bicycle shifter or gear control or gear levers is a component used to control the gearing mechanisms and select the desired gear ratio. Typically, they operate either a derailleur mechanism or an internal hub gear mechanism. In either case, the control ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, "one who shifts" in any way; agent noun from shift (v.). As a mechanical contrivance, from 1869; specifically of the gear-changing mechanism in a motor-vehicle, from 1910.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a stagehand responsible for moving scenery [syn: sceneshifter ] a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears; "in England they call a gearshift a gear lever" [syn: gearshift , gearstick , gear lever ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shifter \Shift"er\, n. One who, or that which, shifts; one who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener. 'T was such a shifter that, if truth were known, Death was half glad when he had got him down. --Milton. (Naut.) An assistant to the ship's ...
Usage examples of shifter.
And although she had worked to wrest control of the shifter pack from his nephew Acier, in the end Acier had been victorious.
The Demesne of a Shifter is very small but very intense, and it goes away quickly.
He had never used a singularity shifter himself-it was an Embe device, still experimental, powered by a mini-black hole and capable of functioning as a stasis field, a teleportation device, even a power source, but fantastically expensive, its secrets zealously guarded by the Network.
If the shifter had malfunctioned, the Embe might have teleported into airless space, or the bottom of the ocean, or .
With these, he would locate the Embe singularity shifter, to power his transmission to the stars.
So the children, looking upon all this changing about, found a kind of giggly prurience in it despite the fact that they were shifter children every one, or hoped they were soon to be.
He was as tall as Roi with a head of deep red hair and a set of biceps that rivaled any other I-Op, but Green had never taken to the beast side of his shifter abilities.
Missy fired a shot off the second Roi was clear, hitting a shifter in the chest, sending him lurching backwards.
Shifter blood because Running Bear saw to it he and his twin had vasectomies when they were young teens.
One queue of whifflers, antiques shifters, nurtured the antiques on to auto-trolleys, forming up at the end of the loading bay.
It is a hypermutant, a shape shifter, spontaneously altering its character as it moves through populations and through individuals.
It continued to work on the sand castle it had been building, an elegant edifice of circuits and shifters, sculpted components and thermoplastic armature, accurately rendered in a turgid blend of sand and water.
As the shifter children were often told, there were child markets operating in the Gameworld, and whether a child might be shifter or no, the bodies of the young were saleable.
She knew them by the fustigar shapes they had taken, ones often seen in processionals at the Danderbat keep, as familiar in their way as the actual shapes of the two shifter men.
He has friends among the supernatural community there, the vampires, shifters, and Weres.