Shift
To divide; to distribute; to apportion.
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.
To change the position of; to alter the bearings of; to turn; as, to shift the helm or sails.
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.
To change the clothing of; -- used reflexively.
To put off or out of the way by some expedient.
The act of shifting.
The act of putting one thing in the place of another, or of changing the place of a thing; change; substitution.
Something frequently shifted; especially, a woman's under-garment; a chemise.
The change of one set of workmen for another; hence, a spell, or turn, of work; also, a set of workmen who work in turn with other sets; as, a night shift.
In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
A change of the position of the hand on the finger board, in playing the violin.
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Shift Quotations
When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.
Marianne Williamson
There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
Washington Irving
We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive.
Neale Donald Walsch
All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies.
David Attenborough
The job numbers are positive. We've had more jobs created now than were lost during the recession. We're seeing that the creation, we're seeing those numbers not only grow but shift toward the private sector and shift toward full-time employment and these are all signs that the recovery is taking some hold but we're not out of woods.
Stephen Harper
A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.
Maurice Strong
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
Tom Stoppard
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.
John W. Gardner
I would like to shift more into writing for and producing people.
Geddy Lee
But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to building Iraqi security capacity.
John Abizaid
There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing.
John Deacon
See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
Thomas More
What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!
Laurence Sterne
Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.
Laurence Sterne
The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.
Rem Koolhaas
I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing.
Paul Hawken
People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies.
Paul Hawken
Thus, the forces and value systems that are most threatened by this shift are becoming the most coherent and are rising to the top as minority or plurality powers. But they do not represent either the shift, the change, or the future.
Paul Hawken
I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of rhythm without change of measure.
Allen Tate
We need to fix this. It hasn't been done yet because there's still a reluctance to admit that there was even a problem - anywhere above seven rogue soldiers who got out of control on the night shift.
Janis Karpinski
In a time of constrained resources we will have to shift emphasis. but not necessarily from the traditional Political Officer to the traditional Economic Officer.
Lawrence Eagleburger
The question is not really about a shift to the economic cone where officers are writing about the balance of payments and the need for economic stabilization.
Lawrence Eagleburger
It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it.
Clifford Geertz
In these times of the 'Great Recession', we shouldn't be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. We should be celebrating and encouraging people to make as much money as they can. Profits equal tax money. While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.
Mark Cuban
If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality.
Christopher Meloni
My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy.
Marc Andreessen
In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms.
Ron Chernow
In fact, the recent increase in intra-firm trading enables businesses to shift their activities across borders smoothly, thereby strengthening the response of economic activity to exchange rate movements in the long run.
Toshihiko Fukui
So far, Indian companies have focused more on customer application. This needs to shift to packaged software for sectors such as banking and financial services.
Sanjay Kumar
Maybe I should have taken a few chances. That's not to say I want to go make 'Star Wars,' but I need to shift my career into the studio world. That's where my head was at when I thought of the original plot.
Edward Burns
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Shift Translations
shift in Dutch is verschuiving
shift in German is umschalten, Schicht/schieben, Umschaltung
shift in Italian is muovere
shift in Latin is amoveo
shift in Portuguese is deslocamento
shift in Spanish is impulsar
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