shift
verb
[ ʃɪft ]
• move or cause to move from one place to another, especially over a small distance.
• "a team from the power company came to shift the cables away from the house"
Similar:
move,
carry,
transfer,
transport,
convey,
take,
bring,
bear,
lug,
cart,
haul,
fetch,
switch,
move around,
transpose,
relocate,
reposition,
rearrange,
displace,
slide,
slip,
be displaced,
• change gear in a vehicle.
• "she shifted down to fourth"
• be evasive or indirect.
• "they know not how to shift and rob as the old ones do"
shift
noun
• a slight change in position, direction, or tendency.
• "a shift in public opinion"
Similar:
movement,
move,
shifting,
transference,
transport,
conveyance,
switch,
transposition,
relocation,
repositioning,
rearrangement,
change,
alteration,
adjustment,
adaptation,
amendment,
recasting,
variation,
modification,
revision,
reversal,
retraction,
sea change,
U-turn,
rowback,
about-turn,
• each of two or more recurring periods in which different groups of workers do the same jobs in relay.
• "Anne was on the night shift"
• a woman's straight unwaisted dress.
• an ingenious or devious device or stratagem.
• "the thousand shifts and devices of which Hannibal was a master"
Similar:
stratagem,
scheme,
subterfuge,
expedient,
dodge,
trick,
ruse,
wile,
artifice,
deception,
strategy,
device,
plan,
Origin:
Old English sciftan ‘arrange, divide, apportion’, of Germanic origin; related to German schichten ‘to layer, stratify’. A common Middle English sense ‘change, replace’ gave rise to shift (sense 3 of the noun) (via the notion of changing one's clothes) and shift (sense 2 of the noun) (via the concept of relays of workers).
