English Dictionary

shift

/ʃɪft/

verb

(transitive, sometimes figuratively) To move from one place to another; to redistribute. / (transitive, figuratively) To change in form or character; swap. / (intransitive) To change position.

I need to shift the furniture to the other room.

意味（1）

(transitive, sometimes figuratively) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.

We'll have to shift these boxes to the downtown office.

意味（2）

(transitive, figuratively) To change in form or character; swap.

As a result, I shifted my approach to focus on group-generated activities and broadened the chronological time frame.

意味（3）

(intransitive) To change position.

She shifted slightly in her seat.

意味（4）

(intransitive, India) To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.

We are shifting to America next month.

意味（5）

(obsolete, transitive) To change (clothes, especially underwear).

, II.ii.2:

, II.ii.2: '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 […].

意味（6）

(obsolete, transitive, reflexive) To change (someone's) clothes; sometimes specifically, to change underwear.

As it were, to ride day and night; and […] not to have patience to shift me.

意味（7）

(intransitive) To change gears (in a car).

I crested the hill and shifted into fifth.

意味（8）

(typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.

意味（9）

(computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.

意味（10）

(transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.

Shifting 1001 to the left yields 10010; shifting it right yields 100.

意味（11）

(transitive, computing) To remove the first value from an array.

意味（12）

(transitive) To dispose of.

How can I shift a grass stain?

意味（13）

(intransitive) To hurry; to move quickly.

If you shift, you might make the 2:19.

意味（14）

(Ireland, vulgar, slang) To engage in sexual petting.

意味（15）

(archaic) To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.

[…] men in distress will look to themselves in the First Place, and leave their Companions to Shift as well as they can.

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意味（16）

To practice indirect or evasive methods.

But this I dare auow of all those Schoole-men, that though they were exceeding wittie, yet they better teach all their Followers to shift, then to resolue, by their distinctions.

意味（17）

(music) In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut.

意味（18）

To change the reality one's consciousness resides in through meditation or other means.

I finally shifted to Hogwarts last night!