"shift the cut" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "shifts the cut",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shifting the cut",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shifted the cut",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shifted the cut",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "shift the cut (third-person singular simple present shifts the cut, present participle shifting the cut, simple past and past participle shifted the cut)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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          "parents": [
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [
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            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Card games",
          "orig": "en:Card games",
          "parents": [
            "Games",
            "Recreation",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1902, S. W. Erdnase, Artifice, Ruse and Subterfuge at the Card Table: A Treatise on the Science and Art of Manipulating Cards",
          "text": "In the average game where the players keep their hands, and arms also, on the table there is little opportunity to shift the cut.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1949, John Scarne, Scarne on Cards",
          "text": "The cards are slightly crimped, just enough to indicate to the cheater's sensitive fingers exactly where to shift the cut. This move cannot be made without a cover.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To surreptitiously restore a deck of cards to their original sequence after having cut the deck."
      ],
      "id": "en-shift_the_cut-en-verb-hvYEIaOF",
      "links": [
        [
          "surreptitious",
          "surreptitious"
        ],
        [
          "deck",
          "deck"
        ],
        [
          "card",
          "card"
        ],
        [
          "sequence",
          "sequence"
        ],
        [
          "cut",
          "cut"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "shift the cut"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "shifts the cut",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shifting the cut",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shifted the cut",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shifted the cut",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "shift the cut (third-person singular simple present shifts the cut, present participle shifting the cut, simple past and past participle shifted the cut)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Card games"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1902, S. W. Erdnase, Artifice, Ruse and Subterfuge at the Card Table: A Treatise on the Science and Art of Manipulating Cards",
          "text": "In the average game where the players keep their hands, and arms also, on the table there is little opportunity to shift the cut.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1949, John Scarne, Scarne on Cards",
          "text": "The cards are slightly crimped, just enough to indicate to the cheater's sensitive fingers exactly where to shift the cut. This move cannot be made without a cover.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To surreptitiously restore a deck of cards to their original sequence after having cut the deck."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "surreptitious",
          "surreptitious"
        ],
        [
          "deck",
          "deck"
        ],
        [
          "card",
          "card"
        ],
        [
          "sequence",
          "sequence"
        ],
        [
          "cut",
          "cut"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "shift the cut"
}