Shifting
noun, verb
noun, verb ·2 syllables ·Common ·Middle school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A shift or change; a shifting movement.
"I remember the last time I saw Macbeth played, the discrepancy I felt at the changes of garment which he varied, the shiftings and reshiftings, like a Romish priest at mass."
- 2 the act of moving from one place to another wordnet
- 3 The phenomenon by which two or more constituents appearing on the same side of their common head exchange positions to obtain non-canonical order.
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of shift form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
- 1 (of soil) unstable wordnet
- 2 changing position or direction wordnet
- 3 continuously varying wordnet
Example
More examples"The shifting pattern of world trade is made clear in the following table."