Shift

//ʃɪft//

Synonyms for "shift" (720 found)

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Closest matches (144)

Verb(29 words)

budge pitch reposition stir switch transfer interchange move relocate swap 86 agitate bin blitz bustle can canoodle careen caress carry

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cast aside cast away cast off change change over chuck chuck away chuck out chuckle

chemise relocate stir switch transfer transformation shift key aberrancy aberration about face about ship about the bush about-face accommodation action ad hoc measure adaptation adjustment advance alchemy

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Noun(3 words)

shift key break chemise

Strong matches (216)

circle circuitousness climb come about come around come round commit conspiracy constructive change consume continuity contrivance conversion convert corner corps corsage countermove coup course of action

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craft crew crook curve curve-ball cute trick day shift deceit deceive declination defection deflection degenerate degeneration degenerative change delocalization delocalize demarche depart from departure deracination dernier ressort descend design deteriorate deterioration detour deviance deviancy deviate deviation device deviousness dickey difference digress digression dirty deal dirty trick disarrangement disarticulation discontinuity discursion disjointing dislocate dislocation dislodge displace displacement disturb dither divagate divagation divaricate divarication diverge divergence diversification diversify diversion diversity divert divide do over dodge dogleg dogwatch doppler effect double double a point drift drifting duck ebb ebb and flow edge effort equivocate errantry evade evade the issue evasion excursion excursus excuse exorbitation expediency expedient fakement falsify fast deal fault feint fence fetch fetch about ficelle finesse fitting flip flop flip-flop flop flounder flow fluctuate fondle forcible shift full time gambit game gang get get over get rid of gimmick go go about go around go round go sideways go through phases googly gradual change graveyard shift grift group growth gybe gyrate hairpin half time hasten haul around heave round hedge heel hem and haw heterotopia hocus pocus hocus-pocus hours improve improvement improvisation incoherence indirection interchange intrigue jibe jibe all standing joker juggle

Verb(36 words)

coax commute convert cosset counterchange dally dandle dawt develop discard dislodge dispose of ditch draw dump evolve exchange faddle feel up fly

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fond fondle get a move on get rid of grabble grope hasten haul haul ass haul one's ashes hie hump it hurry hurtle hustle jettison

Noun(8 words)

displacement duty period evasion fault faulting fracture french kiss geological fault

Related words (360)

jugglery jury rig jury-rig jury-rigged expedient knavery lapse last expedient last resort last shift lay aside lie linen little game lobster trick look after lurch luxation make make do make it

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make over makeshift manage maneuver manhandle market means means to an end measure meliorate melioration miss stays mitigate mitigation modification modulate modulation motion mount move move over movement moving mutate muu-muu mystify naturalization naturalize night shift nitpick obliquity obscure oscillate overthrow overtime palter parcel parry part time party pass passage pendulate pererration petticoat pick nits pis aller plot ploy plunge ply portion prevaricate progress prorate pull away pull back punish pussyfoot put about put aside put away put back put off qualification quibble quota racket radical change rambling ration re creation re-creation re-formation realignment rearrange recoil reconversion reconvert recourse red herring red shift redesign reduce reduce to reduction reform reformation refuge regress relay relocation remaking remotion removal remove removement render renewal reposition reshaping resolution resolve into resort resource restructuring retrogress reversal reverse revival revive revivification revolution ring the changes ripping out rise rotate round a point run ruse schedule scheme scurvy trick second seesaw sell send set aside shake up shake-up share sheer sheer off shift about shift off shifting shifting course shifting path shilly shally shilly-shally ship shirt shrink shuffle shunt shy shy away shy off side sidestep sink skew slant sleight sleight of hand sleight-of-hand trick slew slide smock soar solution spell spin split hairs split schedule split shift squad squirm staff stagger step step aside stint stopgap stratagem strategy straying stream string stroke stroke of policy subside substitute subterfuge succeed succession sudden change sunrise watch sway sweep swerve swerving swill swing swing round swing shift swing the stern swinging switch over switch-over tack tactic take a turn take away take care of team teeter teeter totter teeter-totter temporary expedient tendency tergiversate throw about time total change totter tour tour of duty transform transit transition transplant transpose travel trend trick trickery trump turn turn aside turn back turn into turn of work turn the corner turnabout turning turning into twist twist and turn undergarments undergo a change unhinging unjointing upheaval uproot uprooting vacillate variation variety vary veer violent change volte face volte-face waist wandering wane ward off warp watch waver wax and wane wear wear ship whirl wile wily device wind wobble work shift workers working hypothesis working proposition worsen worsening yaw zigzag

Verb(50 words)

junk lurch make haste make tracks metamorphize metamorphose move it nantle nudge pet pettle position race rattle one's hocks rearrange reconvert redistribute remove replace rush

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Noun(13 words)

sack shifting shimmy slip switch switching teddy transformation transmutation transport turn of duty work shift workshift

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

12 relation types

More general

34 entries

abandon alter alteration change cleft crack crevice crew displace dress exchange fissure frock gang hours

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More specific

11 entries

antigenic shift blueshift day shift graveyard shift locking shift make shift night shift redshift split shift swing shift wind shift

Antonyms

1 entries

unshift

Synonyms

15 entries

careen chemise fault fondle get rid of hasten interchange lurch relocate reposition shift key stir switch transfer transformation

Related terms

2 entries

arsed bothered

derived

81 entries

Bezold-Brücke shift Doppler shift Lamb shift Purkinje shift Shift JIS allylic shift blue shift blueshift chain shift chemical shift continental shift dative shift ever-shifting evershifting field shift first shift

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has context

13 entries

baseball computer keyboards computing crude genetics historical ireland mining phonetics slang typewriters us vulgar

is a

4 entries

gang hours motion translation

manner of

5 entries

change move substitute switch type

part of

2 entries

work force workday

related to

19 entries

array binary bit shift change digit dislocation dispose of fault function gear hurry infield shift key modifier key movement rotate

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similar

4 entries

change commute convert exchange

Translations

266 translations across 59 languages.

Albanian

2 entries

ndërresë noun (change of workers)
turn noun (change of workers)

Arabic

1 entries

نَوْبَة noun (change of workers)

Armenian

2 entries

դարձ noun (button on a keyboard)
հերթափոխություն noun (change of workers)

Azerbaijani

2 entries

iş növbəsi noun (change of workers)
smen noun (change of workers)

Basque

1 entries

txanda noun (change of workers)

Belarusian

1 entries

зме́на noun (change of workers)

Bulgarian

4 entries

отме́стване noun (act of shifting)
превклю́чване noun (gear mechanism in a motor vehicle)
преме́стване noun (act of shifting)
смя́на noun (change of workers)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

換檔鍵 /换档键 noun (button on a keyboard)
班 noun (change of workers)
移位鍵 /移位键 noun (button on a keyboard)
輪班 /轮班 noun (change of workers)

Czech

3 entries

posun noun (act of shifting)
posuv noun (act of shifting)
směna noun (change of workers)

Danish

1 entries

skifte noun (change of workers)

Dari

1 entries

نَوْبَت noun (change of workers)

Dutch

4 entries

ploeg noun (change of workers)
ploegendienst noun (change of workers)
ploegenstelsel noun (change of workers)
schakelen verb (to change gears)

Esperanto

1 entries

registrumo noun (button on a keyboard)

Estonian

1 entries

vahetus noun (change of workers)

Finnish

4 entries

muutos noun (act of shifting)
shift noun (button on a keyboard)
siirto noun (act of shifting)
siirtyminen noun (act of shifting)

French

4 entries

décalage noun (act of shifting)
poste noun (change of workers)
quart noun (change of workers)
shift noun (change of workers)

Galician

1 entries

quenda noun (change of workers)

Georgian

1 entries

ცვლა noun (change of workers)

German

4 entries

Gangschaltung noun (gear mechanism in a motor vehicle)
Hochstelltaste noun (button on a keyboard)
Schaltung noun (gear mechanism in a motor vehicle)
Schicht noun (change of workers)

Greek

1 entries

βάρδια noun (change of workers)

Hebrew

1 entries

מִשְׁמֶרֶת noun (change of workers)

Hindi

3 entries

पाली noun (change of workers)
बारी noun (change of workers)
स्थानांतरण noun (act of shifting)

Hungarian

4 entries

műszak noun (change of workers)
váltás noun (act of shifting)
váltó noun (gear mechanism in a motor vehicle)
vált verb (to change gears)

Icelandic

2 entries

skiptihnappur noun (button on a keyboard)
vakt noun (change of workers)

Indonesian

4 entries

gigi noun (gear mechanism in a motor vehicle)
giliran noun (change of workers)
penjelmaan noun (act of shifting)
persneling noun (gear mechanism in a motor vehicle)

Iranian Persian

2 entries

شیفْت noun (change of workers)
نُوْبَت noun (change of workers)

Italian

4 entries

cambio noun (change of workers)
cambio noun (gear mechanism in a motor vehicle)
maiusc noun (button on a keyboard)
maiuscolo noun (button on a keyboard)

Japanese

4 entries

シフト noun (button on a keyboard)
シフトキー noun (button on a keyboard)
交代 noun (change of workers)
入れ替え noun (change of workers)

Korean

4 entries

교대 noun (change of workers)
시프트 noun (change of workers)
시프트 noun (button on a keyboard)
시프트 키 noun (button on a keyboard)

Kyrgyz

1 entries

смена noun (change of workers)

Latvian

1 entries

maiņa noun (change of workers)

Lithuanian

1 entries

pamaina noun (change of workers)

Macedonian

1 entries

смена noun (change of workers)

Mongolian

1 entries

ээлж noun (change of workers)

Māori

1 entries

mahinga noun (change of workers)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries

skift noun (change of workers)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries

skift noun (change of workers)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries

نوبت noun (change of workers)

Persian

4 entries

شیفت noun (button on a keyboard)
انداختن verb (to change gears)
جابهجا شدن verb (to change position)
جابهجا کردن verb (to move from one place to another)

Polish

3 entries

przesunięcie noun (act of shifting)
zmiana noun (change of workers)
przesuwać verb (to move from one place to another)

Portuguese

4 entries

câmbio noun (gear mechanism in a motor vehicle)
desvio noun (act of shifting)
marcha noun (gear mechanism in a motor vehicle)
mudança noun (act of shifting)

Quechua

1 entries

mit'a noun (change of workers)

Romanian

3 entries

schimb noun (change of workers)
schimbare noun (act of shifting)
schimba verb (to change gears)

Russian

4 entries

измене́ние noun (act of shifting)
кла́виша шифт noun (button on a keyboard)
передвиже́ние noun (act of shifting)
переключе́ние noun (gear mechanism in a motor vehicle)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

smjȅna noun (change of workers)
smȅna noun (change of workers)
сме̏на noun (change of workers)
смје̏на noun (change of workers)

Slovak

1 entries

zmena noun (change of workers)

Slovene

4 entries

izmena noun (change of workers)
premik noun (act of shifting)
zamik noun (act of shifting)
šiht noun (change of workers)

Spanish

4 entries

cambio noun (act of shifting)
cambio noun (gear mechanism in a motor vehicle)
conmutación noun (act of shifting)
deslizamiento noun (act of shifting)

Swahili

1 entries

shifti noun (change of workers)

Swedish

4 entries

arbetspass noun (change of workers)
arbetsskift noun (change of workers)
byte noun (act of shifting)
pass noun (change of workers)

Tagalog

1 entries

tanda noun (change of workers)

Tajik

1 entries

смена noun (change of workers)

Telugu

4 entries

బదిలీ noun (change of workers)
మార్పు noun (act of shifting)
మారు verb (to change position)
మార్చు verb (to change, swap)

Thai

1 entries

กะ noun (change of workers)

Turkish

4 entries

değiştirme noun (act of shifting)
kaydırma noun (act of shifting)
shift tuşu noun (button on a keyboard)
vardiya noun (change of workers)

Ukrainian

1 entries

змі́на noun (change of workers)

Urdu

2 entries

شِفْٹ noun (change of workers)
نَوبَت noun (change of workers)

Uzbek

1 entries

smena noun (change of workers)

Vietnamese

4 entries

ban noun (change of workers)
phiên noun (change of workers)
sự chuyển noun (act of shifting)
sự giao ban noun (act of shifting)

Sample sentences

53 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Freddy's been working the graveyard shift the past month, so he hasn't been able to see any of his friends who work normal hours.

Source: tatoeba (34069)

Forming an information infrastructure, the real impact of the information highway is an expectation of new economic development due to a shift from a tangible hardware-industry to brain-oriented software-industry.

Source: tatoeba (73631)

When I speak to a Westerner, I have to shift mental gears, so to speak.

Source: tatoeba (271959)

In order to keep our feet warm we had to shift from one foot to another and keep moving.

Source: tatoeba (274486)

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