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shifting
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In linguistics, shifting occurs when two or more constituents appearing on the same side of their common head exchange positions in a sense, so that non-canonical order obtains. The most widely acknowledged type of shifting is heavy NP shift , although ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shifting \Shift"ing\, a. Changing in place, position, or direction; varying; variable; fickle; as, shifting winds; shifting opinions or principles. Adapted or used for shifting anything. Shifting backstays (Naut.), temporary stays that have to be let go ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. continuously moving or changing from position or direction; "he drifted into the shifting crowd"; "their nervous shifting glances" continuously varying; "taffeta with shifting colors" (of soil) unstable; "shifting sands"; "unfirm earth" [syn: unfirm ...
Usage examples of shifting.
I segued into the second movement, that sense of bright expectation replaced by the slow, haunting strains of the Adagio, at once lyrical and sad -- mirroring the turns my own life had taken, the shifting harmonies sounding to me like the raised voices of ghosts, of echoes.
Her sails spread slowly, catching the outwind of the local sun, their lead surfaces adazzle in shifting, light show display.
We could not, I adjudged, shifting my knees lower on his barrel, gain the trees before true day.
And even if they did, when adolescence came, when most people started shifting, would they be able to control their urges to shift?
Thure and Bud, their eyes shifting restlessly from the face of the alcalde to the faces of the surrounding crowd.
Pio moved the Alfa Romeo off, shifting through the H of the manual transmission.
A concept introduced into the culture, like the Anachronists, to allow a mundane society some practice in the idea of shifting worlds and cultures?
As the only incorporated man in Argali, Maxard Argali had governed the province for Kamoj when she was young and was shifting his role to that of advisor now that she had reached her adulthood.
And smacked into a hard body, as the Argon deftly thwarted her attempt by shifting himself into her path.
So much for easy dreams of shifting into an Elator and flicking outside the walls, or shifting into an Armiger to carry Silkhands to safety through the air from her window.
The Armorer bit his lip, shifting his feet as he noticed that the pool of blood from the three corpses was spreading near him.
Bellis felt faintly dismayed by exhaustion when she sat with Tanner Sack and the other engineers in the afternoon, but Aum continued without apparent difficulty, shifting his attention from the conceptual problems and philosophy of the avancs to practical issues of bait, and control, and capture of something the size of an island.
The two men waited for an explanation but he gave none, and they stood uncomfortably for a moment, shifting their weight until Axal Foss conceded with a nod.
Some 250 of these new escort vessels had been authorized in January 1942, but the shifting of priority work in American shipyards to beaching and landing craft for the cross-Channel operation that never came off so delayed the program that by 2 June only 42 had been launched.
He punched in the coordinates and blinked and fired and felt the shiftings and he was seated in a luxurious chair in a comfortable room.