Definizione monolingua

shift

shift (third-person singular simple present shifts, present participle shifting, simple past and past participle shifted)

1. (transitive) To change, swap.

   His political stance shifted daily.

2. (transitive) to move from one place to another; to redistribute.

   Well have to shift these boxes to the downtown office.

3. (intransitive) to change position.

   She shifted slightly in her seat.

4. (obsolete, transitive) To change (ones clothes); also to change (someones) underclothes.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, 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 [...].

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

   I crested the hill and shifted into fifth.

6. (transitive, computing) to remove the first value from an array.
7. (transitive) to dispose of.

   How can I shift a grass stain?

8. (intransitive) to hurry.

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

9. (Ireland, crude slang) to engage in sexual petting.

shift (plural shifts)

1. (historical) a type of womens undergarment, a slip

   Just last week she bought a new shift at the market.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book V, chapter x

     No; without a gown, in a shift that was somewhat of the coarsest, and none of the cleanest, bedewed likewise with some odoriferous effluvia, the produce of the days labour, with a pitchfork in her hand, Molly Seagrim approached.

2. a change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time

   Well work three shifts a day till the jobs done.

3. an act of shifting; a slight movement or change

   There was a shift in the political atmosphere.

4. (US) the gear mechanism in a motor vehicle

   Does it come with a stick-shift?

5. Alternative spelling of Shift (“the modifier button of computer keyboards”).

   If you press shift-P, the preview display will change.

6. (computing) a bit shift
7. (baseball) The infield shift.

   Teams often use the shift against this lefty.

Definizione dizionario shift

turno

	spostare
	Cambiare la posizione di qualcosa o di qualcuno.
	To change the position of something or someone.

brigata

cambiamento

cambiare

cambiarsi

modifica

movimento

muovere

	cambio
	change of workers

	scorrere
	In programming, to move the bit values one position to the left or right in a register or memory location.

avvicendamento

decentramento verticale

gruppo

muoversi

mutare

rimuovere

smuovere

sostituire

sostituzione

spostamento

stratagemma

trasferire

trasferirsi

trasformazione

trucco

Altri significati:

(transitive) to move from one place to another; to redistribute.

gear mechanism in a motor vehicle

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

(intransitive) to change position.

(historical) a type of women's undergarment, a slip

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

(transitive) to dispose of.

(transitive) To change, swap.

(Irish, crude slang) to engage in sexual petting.

(baseball) The infield shift.

substitution (sports, etc.)

(Should we delete <sup>(+)</sup> this sense?) Alternative spelling of Shift (“the modifier button of computer keyboards”).

(US) the gear mechanism in a motor vehicle

act of shifting

move (e.g. something out of the way)

To change, swap

(computing) a bit shift

(intransitive) to hurry.

to change position

a change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time

To change gears

an act of shifting; a slight movement or change

to move from one place to another

(obsolete, transitive) To change (one's clothes); also to change (someone's) underclothes.