shifting
adjective
[ ˈʃɪftɪŋ ]
• changing, especially unpredictably.
• "diverse districts with shifting demographics"
shift
verb
• 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"
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).
