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"word": "allylic shift"
},
{
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"word": "blueshift"
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{
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"word": "chain shift"
},
{
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"word": "chemical shift"
},
{
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"word": "continental shift"
},
{
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"word": "Doppler shift"
},
{
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"word": "field shift"
},
{
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"word": "frequency shift keying"
},
{
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"word": "frequency-shift keying"
},
{
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"word": "gear shift"
},
{
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"word": "hoot owl shift"
},
{
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"word": "hot shift"
},
{
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"word": "isotope shift"
},
{
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"word": "Lamb shift"
},
{
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"word": "language shift"
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{
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"word": "left shift"
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{
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"word": "lift and shift"
},
{
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"word": "lobster shift"
},
{
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"word": "make-shift"
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{
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"word": "mass shift"
},
{
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"word": "money shift"
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{
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"word": "ovulatory shift hypothesis"
},
{
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"word": "paradigm shift"
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"word": "phase-shift keying"
},
{
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"word": "phase shift keying"
},
{
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"word": "Purkinje shift"
},
{
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"word": "put a shift in"
},
{
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"word": "redshift"
},
{
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"word": "red shift"
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{
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"word": "right shift"
},
{
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"word": "seismic shift"
},
{
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"word": "semantic shift"
},
{
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"word": "shift break"
},
{
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"word": "shift dress"
},
{
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"word": "shift in"
},
{
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"word": "Shift In"
},
{
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"word": "Shift JIS"
},
{
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"word": "shift key"
},
{
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"word": "shift lead"
},
{
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"word": "shift lever"
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{
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"word": "shift lock"
},
{
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"word": "shift out"
},
{
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"word": "Shift Out"
},
{
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"word": "shift register"
},
{
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"word": "shift stick"
},
{
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"word": "shiftwork"
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{
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"word": "shift work"
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{
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"word": "sound shift"
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{
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"word": "stickshift"
},
{
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"word": "stick shift"
},
{
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"word": "tax shift"
},
{
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"word": "tilt-shift"
},
{
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"word": "twilight shift"
},
{
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"word": "vibe shift"
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{
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"word": "work shift"
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{
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"word": "you're only as good as your last shift"
}
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"args": {
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"2": "enm",
"3": "schiften"
},
"expansion": "Middle English schiften",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "sċiftan",
"t": "to divide, separate into shares; appoint, ordain; arrange, organise"
},
"expansion": "Old English sċiftan (“to divide, separate into shares; appoint, ordain; arrange, organise”)",
"name": "inh"
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"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*skiftijaną"
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"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *skiftijaną",
"name": "inh"
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{
"args": {
"1": "gem-pro",
"2": "*skiptijaną"
},
"expansion": "*skiptijaną",
"name": "m"
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{
"args": {
"1": "gem-pro",
"2": "*skipatjaną",
"t": "to organise, put in order"
},
"expansion": "*skipatjaną (“to organise, put in order”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*skeyb-",
"t": "to separate, divide, part"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *skeyb- (“to separate, divide, part”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*skey-",
"t": "to cut, divide, separate, part"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut, divide, separate, part”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"2": "schift"
},
"expansion": "Scots schift",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"2": "skift",
"3": "",
"4": "to shift"
},
"expansion": "skift (“to shift”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "skifte"
},
"expansion": "West Frisian skifte",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "skiftsje",
"3": "",
"4": "to sort"
},
"expansion": "skiftsje (“to sort”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "schiften",
"3": "",
"4": "to sort, screen, winnow, part"
},
"expansion": "Dutch schiften (“to sort, screen, winnow, part”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "schichten",
"3": "",
"4": "to stack, layer"
},
"expansion": "German schichten (“to stack, layer”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "skifta",
"3": "",
"4": "to shift, change, exchange, vary"
},
"expansion": "Swedish skifta (“to shift, change, exchange, vary”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "no",
"2": "skifte",
"3": "",
"4": "to shift"
},
"expansion": "Norwegian skifte (“to shift”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "is",
"2": "skipta",
"3": "",
"4": "to switch"
},
"expansion": "Icelandic skipta (“to switch”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ship"
},
"expansion": "ship",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English schiften, from Old English sċiftan (“to divide, separate into shares; appoint, ordain; arrange, organise”), from Proto-Germanic *skiftijaną, *skiptijaną, from earlier *skipatjaną (“to organise, put in order”), from Proto-Indo-European *skeyb- (“to separate, divide, part”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut, divide, separate, part”). Cognate with Scots schift, skift (“to shift”), West Frisian skifte, skiftsje (“to sort”), Dutch schiften (“to sort, screen, winnow, part”), German schichten (“to stack, layer”), Swedish skifta (“to shift, change, exchange, vary”), Norwegian skifte (“to shift”), Icelandic skipta (“to switch”). See ship.",
"forms": [
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"form": "shifts",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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"args": {
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},
"expansion": "shift (countable and uncountable, plural shifts)",
"name": "en-noun"
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"word": "antigenic shift"
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"word": "blueshift"
},
{
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"word": "day shift"
},
{
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"word": "graveyard shift"
},
{
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"word": "locking shift"
},
{
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"word": "make shift"
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{
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"word": "night shift"
},
{
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"word": "redshift"
},
{
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"word": "split shift"
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{
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"word": "swing shift"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"glosses": [
"A movement to do something, a beginning."
],
"id": "en-shift-en-noun-0BVY0iK8",
"tags": [
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},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "There was a shift in the political atmosphere."
},
{
"text": "c. 1620-1626, Henry Wotton, letter to Nicholas Pey\nMy going to Oxford was not merely for shift of air."
},
{
"ref": "2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times",
"text": "The generational shift Mr. Obama once embodied is, in fact, well under way, but it will not change Washington as quickly — or as harmoniously — as a lot of voters once hoped.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An act of shifting; a slight movement or change."
],
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"links": [
[
"movement",
"movement"
],
[
"change",
"change"
]
],
"tags": [
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"uncountable"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "otmestvane",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"word": "отместване"
},
{
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "premestvane",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "преместване"
},
{
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "posun"
},
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "posuv"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"word": "siirtyminen"
},
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"word": "siirto"
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{
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"word": "muutos"
},
{
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"topics": [
"astronomy",
"natural-sciences",
"technology",
"engineering",
"physical-sciences"
],
"word": "décalage"
},
{
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Verschiebung"
},
{
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Verlagerung"
},
{
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Verstellung"
},
{
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"word": "váltás"
},
{
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mutamento"
},
{
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "spostamento"
},
{
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"word": "przesunięcie"
},
{
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "troca"
},
{
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "desvio"
},
{
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "schimbare"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sdvig",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "сдвиг"
},
{
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "peredvižénije",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "передвиже́ние"
},
{
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "smeščénije",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "смеще́ние"
},
{
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "izmenénije",
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"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "измене́ние"
},
{
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"tags": [
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{
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"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"word": "premik"
},
{
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"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"word": "zamik"
},
{
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"word": "cambio"
},
{
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"word": "desviación"
},
{
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"word": "deslizamiento"
},
{
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "desplazamiento"
},
{
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "skifte"
},
{
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "byte"
},
{
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"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "mārpu",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"word": "మార్పు"
},
{
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"word": "değiştirme"
},
{
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"word": "kaydırma"
},
{
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"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"word": "sự chuyển"
},
{
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"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"word": "sự thay đổi"
},
{
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"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"word": "sự giao ban"
}
]
},
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"text": "At length, one night, when the company by some accident broke up much sooner than ordinary, so that the candles were not half burnt out, she was not able to resist the temptation, but resolved to have them some way or other. Accordingly, as soon as the hurry was over, and the servants, as she thought, all gone to sleep, she stole out of her bed, and went down stairs, naked to her shift as she was, with a design to steal them […]",
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"ref": "2023, Colin Walsh, Kala",
"text": "She flicked her hair out of her eyes again and looked into yours as you put your hands on her waist. Then her tongue was in your mouth and yours was in hers. You were getting the shift. Ye were shifting.",
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"usually",
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"text": "Little souls on little shifts rely."
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"Technology",
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"Economics",
"Society",
"Social sciences",
"All topics",
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"Fundamental"
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[
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[
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"All topics",
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"consciousness"
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[
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[
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"ruined"
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"ref": "2012 March 16, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 87",
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{
"ref": "2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68",
"text": "The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.",
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"sense": "to move from one place to another",
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"ref": "2008, June Granatir Alexander, Ethnic Pride, American Patriotism, page ix",
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"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2013, Steven H. Knoblauch, The Musical Edge of Therapeutic Dialogue",
"text": "His voice shifted from song to whisper.",
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"text": "She shifted slightly in her seat.",
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"text": "His political stance shifted daily.",
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"sense": "to change position",
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"text": "I crested the hill and shifted into fifth.",
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"(intransitive) To change gears (in a car)."
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"sense": "to change gears",
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{
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to change gears",
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"sense": "to change gears",
"word": "vált"
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"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to change gears",
"word": "cambiare"
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{
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"code": "fa",
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"sense": "to change gears",
"word": "انداختن"
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"sense": "to change gears",
"word": "trocar"
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"sense": "to change gears",
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"sense": "to change gears",
"word": "cambiar"
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"sense": "to change gears",
"word": "växla"
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"roman": "mārcu",
"sense": "to change gears",
"word": "మార్చు"
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{
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"sense": "to change gears",
"word": "sang số"
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"text": "If you shift, you might make the 2:19.",
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"ref": "2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68",
"text": "Time is running out, so I renounce a spin on a Class 387 for a fast run to Paddington on another Class 800 - a shame as the weather was perfect for pictures. Even so, it's enjoyable - boy, can those trains shift under the wires.",
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"ref": "2018, Sally Rooney, “Two Days Later (April 2011)”, in Normal People",
"text": "The question is what she's done to Waldron, said Eric. Look at him hiding in his locker there. Come on, spit it out. Did you shift her?",
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"ref": "1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, page 112",
"text": "My Fellow-Slaves were […] as courteous to me as I could well-expect; and as they had Plantations of their own, they gave me […] such Victuals as they had; especially on dark Nights, and at such Times as I could not shift for myself.",
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{
"ref": "2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times",
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"examples": [
{
"text": "Just last week she bought a new shift at the market.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1762, Charles Johnstone, The Reverie; or, A Flight to the Paradise of Fools, volume 2, Dublin: Printed by Dillon Chamberlaine, →OCLC, page 202",
"text": "At length, one night, when the company by some accident broke up much sooner than ordinary, so that the candles were not half burnt out, she was not able to resist the temptation, but resolved to have them some way or other. Accordingly, as soon as the hurry was over, and the servants, as she thought, all gone to sleep, she stole out of her bed, and went down stairs, naked to her shift as she was, with a design to steal them […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"A type of women's undergarment of dress length worn under dresses or skirts, a slip or chemise."
],
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[
"slip",
"slip"
],
[
"chemise",
"chemise"
]
],
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"(historical) A type of women's undergarment of dress length worn under dresses or skirts, a slip or chemise."
],
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"countable",
"historical",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A simple straight-hanging, loose-fitting dress."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"examples": [
{
"text": "We'll work three shifts a day till the job's done."
}
],
"glosses": [
"A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time."
],
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{
"word": "workshift"
}
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"American English",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Does it come with a stick-shift?",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle."
],
"links": [
[
"gear",
"gear"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle."
],
"tags": [
"US",
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "a modifier button of computer keyboards",
"word": "Shift"
}
],
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "If you press shift-P, the preview display will change.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”)."
],
"links": [
[
"Shift",
"Shift#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Computing"
],
"glosses": [
"A control code or character used to change between different character sets."
],
"links": [
[
"computing",
"computing#Noun"
],
[
"control code",
"control code"
],
[
"character",
"character"
],
[
"character set",
"character set"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(computing) A control code or character used to change between different character sets."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Computing"
],
"glosses": [
"A control code or character used to change between different character sets.",
"An instance of the use of such a code or character."
],
"links": [
[
"computing",
"computing#Noun"
],
[
"control code",
"control code"
],
[
"character",
"character"
],
[
"character set",
"character set"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(computing) A control code or character used to change between different character sets.",
"(computing) An instance of the use of such a code or character."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Computing"
],
"glosses": [
"A bit shift."
],
"links": [
[
"computing",
"computing#Noun"
],
[
"bit shift",
"bit shift"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(computing) A bit shift."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples",
"en:Baseball"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Teams often use a shift against this lefty.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An infield shift."
],
"links": [
[
"baseball",
"baseball"
],
[
"infield shift",
"infield shift"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(baseball) An infield shift."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"ball-games",
"baseball",
"games",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"sports"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Irish English",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2023, Colin Walsh, Kala",
"text": "She flicked her hair out of her eyes again and looked into yours as you put your hands on her waist. Then her tongue was in your mouth and yours was in hers. You were getting the shift. Ye were shifting.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The act of kissing passionately."
],
"qualifier": "crude slang",
"raw_glosses": [
"(Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of kissing passionately."
],
"tags": [
"Ireland",
"often",
"uncountable",
"usually",
"with the definite article"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with archaic senses"
],
"glosses": [
"A contrivance, a device to try when other methods fail."
],
"links": [
[
"contrivance",
"contrivance"
],
[
"device",
"device"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic) A contrivance, a device to try when other methods fail."
],
"tags": [
"archaic",
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with archaic senses"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Little souls on little shifts rely."
}
],
"glosses": [
"A trick, an artifice."
],
"links": [
[
"trick",
"trick"
],
[
"artifice",
"artifice"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic) A trick, an artifice."
],
"tags": [
"archaic",
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Construction"
],
"glosses": [
"The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints."
],
"links": [
[
"construction",
"construction"
],
[
"extent",
"extent"
],
[
"arrangement",
"arrangement"
],
[
"course",
"course"
],
[
"joint",
"joint"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(construction) The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"business",
"construction",
"manufacturing"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Mining"
],
"glosses": [
"A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault."
],
"links": [
[
"mining",
"mining#Noun"
],
[
"dislocation",
"dislocation"
],
[
"seam",
"seam"
],
[
"fault",
"fault"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"business",
"mining"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Genetics"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2017, Laura Spinney, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World",
"text": "This kind of change, called shift - or more memorably, 'viral sex' - tends to trigger a pandemic, because a radically different virus demands a radically different immune response, and that takes time to mobilise.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine."
],
"links": [
[
"genetics",
"genetics"
],
[
"DNA",
"DNA"
],
[
"RNA",
"RNA"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(genetics) A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"biology",
"genetics",
"medicine",
"natural-sciences",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Music"
],
"glosses": [
"In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut."
],
"links": [
[
"music",
"music"
],
[
"violin",
"violin"
],
[
"nut",
"nut"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(music) In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"entertainment",
"lifestyle",
"music"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A period of time in which one's consciousness resides in another reality, usually achieved through meditation or other means."
],
"links": [
[
"consciousness",
"consciousness"
],
[
"meditation",
"meditation"
]
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"British slang"
],
"glosses": [
"be done; ruined"
],
"links": [
[
"done",
"done"
],
[
"ruined",
"ruined"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(British slang) be done; ruined"
],
"tags": [
"British",
"countable",
"slang",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ʃɪft/",
"tags": [
"Canada",
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪft"
},
{
"audio": "en-ca-shift.oga",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/fc/En-ca-shift.oga/En-ca-shift.oga.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/En-ca-shift.oga",
"tags": [
"Canada"
],
"text": "Audio (CA)"
},
{
"enpr": "shĭft"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "change of workers",
"word": "iş növbəsi"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "change of workers",
"tags": [
"Russianism"
],
"word": "smen"
},
{
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "change of workers",
"word": "txanda"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "zmjéna",
"sense": "change of workers",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "зме́на"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "smjána",
"sense": "change of workers",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "смя́на"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "bān",
"sense": "change of workers",
"word": "班"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "change of workers",
"word": "輪班"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "lúnbān",
"sense": "change of workers",
"word": "轮班"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "change of workers",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "směna"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "change of workers",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ploegendienst"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "change of workers",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ploegenstelsel"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "change of workers",
"word": "vahetus"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "change of workers",
"word": "työvuoro"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "change of workers",
"word": "vuoro"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "change of workers",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "quart"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "change of workers",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "équipe"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "change of workers",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "poste"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "change of workers",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "quenda"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "change of workers",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Schicht"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "várdia",
"sense": "change of workers",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "βάρδια"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "mishméret",
"sense": "change of workers",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "מִשְׁמֶרֶת"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "change of workers",
"word": "műszak"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "change of workers",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cambio"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "change of workers",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "turno"
},
{
"alt": "こうたい",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kōtai",
"sense": "change of workers",
"word": "交代"
},
{
"alt": "いれかえ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "irekae",
"sense": "change of workers",
"word": "入れ替え"
},
{
"alt": "交代",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "gyodae",
"sense": "change of workers",
"word": "교대"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "sipeuteu",
"sense": "change of workers",
"word": "시프트"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "smena",
"sense": "change of workers",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "смена"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "change of workers",
"word": "mahinga"
},
{
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "eelž",
"sense": "change of workers",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "ээлж"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "change of workers",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "skift"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "change of workers",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "skift"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "nowbat",
"sense": "change of workers",
"word": "نوبت"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "šift",
"sense": "change of workers",
"word": "شیفت"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "change of workers",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "zmiana"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "change of workers",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "turno"
},
{
"code": "qu",
"lang": "Quechua",
"sense": "change of workers",
"word": "mit'a"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "change of workers",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "schimb"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sména",
"sense": "change of workers",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "сме́на"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "change of workers",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "сме̏на"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "change of workers",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "смје̏на"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "change of workers",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "smȅna"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "change of workers",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "smjȅna"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "change of workers",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "zmena"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "change of workers",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "izmena"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "change of workers",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "šiht"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "change of workers",
"word": "turno"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "change of workers",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "skift"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "change of workers",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "arbetsskift"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "change of workers",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "arbetspass"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "change of workers",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "pass"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "change of workers",
"word": "tanda"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "badilī",
"sense": "change of workers",
"word": "బదిలీ"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "gà",
"sense": "change of workers",
"word": "กะ"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "change of workers",
"word": "vardiya"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zmína",
"sense": "change of workers",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "змі́на"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "change of workers",
"word": "ban"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "change of workers",
"word": "phiên"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "otmestvane",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"word": "отместване"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "premestvane",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "преместване"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "posun"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "posuv"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"word": "siirtyminen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"word": "siirto"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"word": "muutos"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"topics": [
"astronomy",
"natural-sciences",
"technology",
"engineering",
"physical-sciences"
],
"word": "décalage"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Verschiebung"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Verlagerung"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Verstellung"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"word": "váltás"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mutamento"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "spostamento"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"word": "przesunięcie"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "troca"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "desvio"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "schimbare"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sdvig",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "сдвиг"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "act of shifting",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "передвиже́ние"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "smeščénije",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "смеще́ние"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "izmenénije",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "измене́ние"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "peremeščénije",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "перемеще́ние"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"word": "premik"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"word": "zamik"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"word": "cambio"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"word": "desviación"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"word": "deslizamiento"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "desplazamiento"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "skifte"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "byte"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "mārpu",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"word": "మార్పు"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"word": "değiştirme"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"word": "kaydırma"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"word": "sự chuyển"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"word": "sự thay đổi"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "act of shifting",
"word": "sự giao ban"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "prevključvane",
"sense": "gear mechanism in a motor vehicle",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "превключване"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "gear mechanism in a motor vehicle",
"word": "vaihteisto"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "gear mechanism in a motor vehicle",
"word": "vitesse"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "gear mechanism in a motor vehicle",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Gangschaltung"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "gear mechanism in a motor vehicle",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Schaltung"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "gear mechanism in a motor vehicle",
"word": "váltó"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "gear mechanism in a motor vehicle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cambio"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "gear mechanism in a motor vehicle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "câmbio"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "gear mechanism in a motor vehicle",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "marcha"
},
{
"alt": "переда́ч",
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"sense": "gear mechanism in a motor vehicle",
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"neuter"
],
"word": "переключе́ние"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"neuter"
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"word": "переключе́ние переда́ч"
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"code": "es",
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "gear mechanism in a motor vehicle",
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"common-gender"
],
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{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
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"word": "vites"
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{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "darj",
"sense": "button on a keyboard",
"word": "դարձ"
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "button on a keyboard",
"word": "換檔鍵"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "huàndǎng jiàn",
"sense": "button on a keyboard",
"word": "换档键"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "button on a keyboard",
"word": "移位鍵"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yíwèi jiàn",
"sense": "button on a keyboard",
"word": "移位键"
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{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "button on a keyboard",
"word": "registrumo"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "button on a keyboard",
"word": "vaihto"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "button on a keyboard",
"word": "shift"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "button on a keyboard",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "touche majuscule"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "button on a keyboard",
"word": "Umschalten"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "button on a keyboard",
"word": "Shift"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "button on a keyboard",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Shifttaste"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "button on a keyboard",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Umschalttaste"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "button on a keyboard",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Hochstelltaste"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "button on a keyboard",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "skiptihnappur"
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{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
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"sense": "button on a keyboard",
"word": "シフトキー"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "šift",
"sense": "button on a keyboard",
"word": "شیفت"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "button on a keyboard",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "shift"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "button on a keyboard",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "шифт"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kláviša šift",
"sense": "button on a keyboard",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "кла́виша шифт"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "button on a keyboard",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tecla mayús"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mayús"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "button on a keyboard",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "tecla shift"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
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"feminine"
],
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
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"common-gender"
],
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{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "button on a keyboard",
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"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"natural-sciences"
],
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},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
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"word": "üst karakter tuşu"
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{
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{
"word": "shift about"
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{
"word": "shift gears"
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{
"word": "shift ground"
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{
"word": "shifting baseline syndrome"
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{
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{
"word": "shift one's ground"
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{
"word": "shift one's tides"
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{
"word": "shift the cut"
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{
"word": "shift the deckchairs on the Titanic"
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{
"word": "shift the dial"
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"word": "shift the goalposts"
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"text": "We'll have to shift these boxes to the downtown office.",
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"ref": "2012 March 16, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 87",
"text": "But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.",
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{
"ref": "2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68",
"text": "The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.",
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"ref": "2008, June Granatir Alexander, Ethnic Pride, American Patriotism, page ix",
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"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Steven H. Knoblauch, The Musical Edge of Therapeutic Dialogue",
"text": "His voice shifted from song to whisper.",
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"text": "She shifted slightly in her seat.",
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"text": "His political stance shifted daily.",
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"(intransitive) To change position."
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},
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"text": "We are shifting to America next month.",
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],
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"To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere."
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"word": "move"
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"categories": [
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{
"ref": ", II.ii.2",
"text": "'Tis very good to wash his hands and face often, to shift his clothes, to have fair linen about him, to be decently and comely attired […]."
}
],
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"To change (clothes, especially underwear)."
],
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[
"change",
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},
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[
"change",
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],
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"(obsolete, transitive, reflexive) To change (someone's) clothes; sometimes specifically, to change underwear."
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"transitive"
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{
"text": "I crested the hill and shifted into fifth.",
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}
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"To change gears (in a car)."
],
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"(intransitive) To change gears (in a car)."
],
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"intransitive"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters."
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"(typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters."
]
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{
"glosses": [
"To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters."
],
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"(computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters."
]
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{
"text": "Shifting 1001 to the left yields 10010; shifting it right yields 100.",
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"To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate."
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"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs",
"en:Computing"
],
"glosses": [
"To remove the first value from an array."
],
"links": [
[
"computing",
"computing#Noun"
],
[
"array",
"array"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, computing) To remove the first value from an array."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "How can I shift a grass stain?",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To dispose of."
],
"links": [
[
"dispose of",
"dispose of"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To dispose of."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "If you shift, you might make the 2:19.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68",
"text": "Time is running out, so I renounce a spin on a Class 387 for a fast run to Paddington on another Class 800 - a shame as the weather was perfect for pictures. Even so, it's enjoyable - boy, can those trains shift under the wires.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To hurry; to move quickly."
],
"links": [
[
"hurry",
"hurry"
],
[
"move",
"move"
],
[
"quickly",
"quickly"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To hurry; to move quickly."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations",
"English vulgarities",
"Irish English"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2018, Sally Rooney, “Two Days Later (April 2011)”, in Normal People",
"text": "The question is what she's done to Waldron, said Eric. Look at him hiding in his locker there. Come on, spit it out. Did you shift her?",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To engage in sexual petting."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Ireland, vulgar, slang) To engage in sexual petting."
],
"tags": [
"Ireland",
"slang",
"vulgar"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with archaic senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, page 112",
"text": "My Fellow-Slaves were […] as courteous to me as I could well-expect; and as they had Plantations of their own, they gave me […] such Victuals as they had; especially on dark Nights, and at such Times as I could not shift for myself.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic) To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage."
],
"tags": [
"archaic"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To practice indirect or evasive methods."
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Music"
],
"glosses": [
"In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut."
],
"links": [
[
"music",
"music"
],
[
"violin",
"violin"
],
[
"nut",
"nut"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(music) In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut."
],
"topics": [
"entertainment",
"lifestyle",
"music"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "I finally shifted to Hogwarts last night!",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To change the reality one's consciousness resides in through meditation or other means."
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English slang",
"Nigerian English"
],
"glosses": [
"To steal or kidnap."
],
"links": [
[
"steal",
"steal"
],
[
"kidnap",
"kidnap"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Nigeria, slang) To steal or kidnap."
],
"tags": [
"Nigeria",
"slang"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ʃɪft/",
"tags": [
"Canada",
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪft"
},
{
"audio": "en-ca-shift.oga",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/fc/En-ca-shift.oga/En-ca-shift.oga.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/En-ca-shift.oga",
"tags": [
"Canada"
],
"text": "Audio (CA)"
},
{
"enpr": "shĭft"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "to change, swap",
"word": "interchange"
},
{
"word": "swap"
},
{
"sense": "to move from one place to another",
"word": "relocate"
},
{
"word": "transfer"
},
{
"sense": "to change position",
"word": "reposition"
},
{
"sense": "to dispose of",
"word": "get rid of"
},
{
"word": "remove"
},
{
"sense": "to hurry",
"word": "hasten"
},
{
"word": "rush"
},
{
"sense": "to engage in sexual petting",
"word": "fondle"
},
{
"word": "grope"
},
{
"word": "fondle"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "smenjam",
"sense": "to change, swap",
"word": "сменям"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "promenjam",
"sense": "to change, swap",
"word": "променям"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zhuǎnbiàn",
"sense": "to change, swap",
"word": "转变"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to change, swap",
"word": "muuttaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to change, swap",
"word": "échanger"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to change, swap",
"word": "permuter"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to change, swap",
"word": "switcher"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to change, swap",
"word": "scambiare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to change, swap",
"word": "permutare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to change, swap",
"word": "barattare"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to change, swap",
"word": "mudar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to change, swap",
"word": "trocar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "menjátʹ",
"sense": "to change, swap",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "меня́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pomenjátʹ",
"sense": "to change, swap",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "поменя́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "izmenjátʹ",
"sense": "to change, swap",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "изменя́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "izmenítʹ",
"sense": "to change, swap",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "измени́ть"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to change, swap",
"word": "cambiar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to change, swap",
"word": "byta"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to change, swap",
"word": "skifta"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to change, swap",
"word": "ändra"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to change, swap",
"word": "växla"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "mārcu",
"sense": "to change, swap",
"word": "మార్చు"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to change, swap",
"word": "thay đổi"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to change, swap",
"word": "thay"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to change, swap",
"word": "đổi"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "mestja",
"sense": "to move from one place to another",
"word": "местя"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "premestvam",
"sense": "to move from one place to another",
"word": "премествам"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to move from one place to another",
"word": "siirtää"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to move from one place to another",
"word": "décaler"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to move from one place to another",
"word": "verschieben"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to move from one place to another",
"word": "verlagern"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to move from one place to another",
"word": "verstellen"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to move from one place to another",
"word": "spostarsi"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to move from one place to another",
"word": "muoversi"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to move from one place to another",
"word": "slittare"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "jâ-be-jâ kardan",
"sense": "to move from one place to another",
"word": "جابهجا کردن"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to move from one place to another",
"word": "przesuwać"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to move from one place to another",
"word": "mover"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "peremeščátʹ",
"sense": "to move from one place to another",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "перемеща́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "peremestítʹ",
"sense": "to move from one place to another",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "перемести́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "dvígatʹ",
"sense": "to move from one place to another",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "дви́гать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "dvínutʹ",
"sense": "to move from one place to another",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "дви́нуть"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to move from one place to another",
"word": "mover"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to move from one place to another",
"word": "flytta"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to move from one place to another",
"word": "skifta"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "mārcu",
"sense": "to move from one place to another",
"word": "మార్చు"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to move from one place to another",
"word": "dời"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to move from one place to another",
"word": "di dời"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "otmestvam se",
"sense": "to change position",
"word": "отмествам се"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "premestvam se",
"sense": "to change position",
"word": "премествам се"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to change position",
"word": "siirtyä"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to change position",
"word": "spostarsi"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "jâ-be-jâ šodan",
"sense": "to change position",
"word": "جابهجا شدن"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to change position",
"word": "se mover"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "peremeščátʹsja",
"sense": "to change position",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "перемеща́ться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "peremestítʹsja",
"sense": "to change position",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "перемести́ться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "dvígatʹsja",
"sense": "to change position",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "дви́гаться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "dvínutʹsja",
"sense": "to change position",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "дви́нуться"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to change position",
"word": "moverse"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to change position",
"word": "flytta"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to change position",
"word": "skifta"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to change position",
"word": "ändra"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "māru",
"sense": "to change position",
"word": "మారు"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to change position",
"word": "đổi chỗ"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to change position",
"word": "chuyển chỗ"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "smenjam",
"sense": "to change gears",
"word": "сменям"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "prevključvam",
"sense": "to change gears",
"word": "превключвам"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to change gears",
"word": "vaihtaa"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to change gears",
"word": "umschalten"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to change gears",
"word": "vált"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to change gears",
"word": "cambiare"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "andâxtan",
"sense": "to change gears",
"word": "انداختن"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to change gears",
"word": "trocar"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to change gears",
"word": "schimba"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pereključátʹ",
"sense": "to change gears",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "переключа́ть"
},
{
"alt": "переда́чи",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pereključítʹ",
"sense": "to change gears",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "переключи́ть"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to change gears",
"word": "cambiar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to change gears",
"word": "växla"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "mārcu",
"sense": "to change gears",
"word": "మార్చు"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to change gears",
"word": "sang số"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"shift"
],
"word": "shift"
}
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