Crossword clues for shifting
shifting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shift \Shift\ (sh[i^]ft), 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. sk[=i]fa to cut into slices, as n., a slice, and to E. shive, sheave, n., shiver, n.]
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To divide; to distribute; to apportion. [Obs.]
To which God of his bounty would shift Crowns two of flowers well smelling.
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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].
--Piers Plowman.Pare saffron between the two St. Mary's days, Or set or go shift it that knowest the ways.
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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.
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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.
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To change the clothing of; -- used reflexively. [Obs.]
As it were to ride day and night; and . . . not to have patience to shift me.
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To put off or out of the way by some expedient. ``I shifted him away.''
--Shak.To shift off, to delay; to defer; to put off; to lay aside.
To shift the scene, to change the locality or the surroundings, as in a play or a story.
Shift the scene for half an hour; Time and place are in thy power.
--Swift.
Shifting \Shift"ing\, a.
Changing in place, position, or direction; varying; variable; fickle; as, shifting winds; shifting opinions or principles.
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Adapted or used for shifting anything.
Shifting backstays (Naut.), temporary stays that have to be let go whenever the vessel tacks or jibes.
Shifting ballast, ballast which may be moved from one side of a vessel to another as safety requires.
Shifting center. See Metacenter.
Shifting locomotive. See Switching engine, under Switch.
Wiktionary
n. A shift or change; a shifting movement. vb. (present participle of shift English)
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]
n. the act of moving from one place to another; "his constant shifting disrupted the class" [syn: shift]
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 shifting involving a heavy NP is but one particular manifestation of the shifting mechanism. Shifting occurs in most if not all European languages, and it may in fact be possible in all natural languages. Shifting is not inversion, and inversion is not shifting, but the two mechanisms are similar insofar as they are both present in languages like English that have relatively strict word order. The theoretical analysis of shifting varies in part depending on the theory of sentence structure that one adopts. If one assumes relatively flat structures, shifting does not result in a discontinuity. Shifting is often motivated by the relative weight of the constituents involved. The weight of a constituent is determined by a number of factors, e.g. number of words, contrastive focus, semantic content, etc.
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.