Crossword clues for shifter
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shifter \Shift"er\, n.
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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 cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.
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(Mach.)
An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.
(Knitting Mach.) A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.
(construction, tunneling) A foreman responsible for the work on one shift in one area, as in one heading[4].
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.
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 engineering English) An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another. 5 (context engineering textiles English) A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc. 6 (context cycling English) A component used by the rider to control the gearing mechanisms and select the desired gear ratio, usually connected to the derailleur by a mechanical actuation cable. 7 A spanner with an adjustable jaw size. 8 (context mythology science fiction fantasy English) A shape-shifter, or a person or other being capable of changing their physical form. 9 (context erotica English) A genre of erotica focusing on lycanthropes or other shapeshifters, such as werewolves.
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]
Wikipedia
Shifter may mean:
- "Shifter" is a common term for the gear selector lever of a manual or automatic automobile or truck transmission.
- Shifter (bicycle part), or gear lever, a bicycle part that selects which gear the chain rests on
- Shifter (tool), an adjustable wrench/spanner
- Shifter (Justice League Unlimited), a former superhero featured in the animated television series
- Shifter (Dungeons & Dragons), a prestige class in the role-playing game
- Shifter (Eberron), a race in the Eberron campaign setting of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game
- In US English, The Gear stick lever, gearstick or gear lever of an automatic or manual transmission
- A shapeshifting character in science fiction, fantasy fiction, and role-playing games
- A switcher in the terminology of the Pennsylvania Railroad
- Jenny Everywhere aka The Shifter, open source webcomic character
- Barrel shifter, part of a computer processor that performs bit shifts
- Shiphtur, pseudonym of Danny Le, Canadian League of Legends player
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 is operated by moving a cable that connects the shifter to the gear mechanism. Shifters are mounted on the down tube of the frame, stem, or various locations on the handlebars. Manufacturers of shifters include Shimano, Campagnolo, Microshift, Sturmey Archer, and SRAM.
Shifter controls are mounted so that the right shifter controls the rear derailleur and the left shifter controls the front derailleur. For hub gears, the control is also mounted on the right.
Various shifters designs have included friction shifters and index shifters, which do not require fine-tuning during a gear change, as well as shifters integrated with the brake controls.
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.