Shift

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A movement to do something, a beginning.
2. isim An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.

   “There was a shift in the political atmosphere.”

3. isim A share, a portion assigned on division.
4. isim A type of women's undergarment of dress length worn under dresses or skirts, a slip or chemise.

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

5. isim A simple straight-hanging, loose-fitting dress.
6. isim A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.

   “We'll work three shifts a day till the job's done.”

7. isim The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.

   “Does it come with a stick-shift?”

8. isim Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).

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

9. isim A control code or character used to change between different character sets.
10. isim An instance of the use of such a code or character.
11. isim A bit shift.
12. isim An infield shift.

    “Teams often use a shift against this lefty.”

13. isim The act of kissing passionately.

    “She flicked her hair out of her eyes again and looked into yours as you put your hands on her waist. Then her tongue was in your mouth and yours was in hers. You were getting the shift. Ye were shifting.”

14. isim A contrivance, a device to try when other methods fail.

    “If I get down, and do not break my limbs, I'll find a thousand shifts to get away: As good to die and go, as die and stay.”

15. isim A trick, an artifice.

    “And if the boy have not a woman's gift To rain a shower of commanded tears, An onion will do well for such a shift”

16. isim The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
17. isim A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
18. isim A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.

    “This kind of change, called shift - or more memorably, 'viral sex' - tends to trigger a pandemic, because a radically different virus demands a radically different immune response, and that takes time to mobilise.”

19. isim In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.
20. isim A period of time in which one's consciousness resides in another reality, usually achieved through meditation or other means.
21. fiil To move from one place to another; to redistribute.

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

22. fiil To change in form or character; switch.

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

23. fiil To change position; to move.

    “She shifted slightly in her seat.”

24. fiil To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.

    “We are shifting to America next month.”

25. fiil To change (clothes, especially underwear); to change the clothes of.

    “'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 […].”

26. fiil 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.”

27. fiil To change gears (in an automobile).

    “I crested the hill and shifted into fifth.”

28. fiil To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters or special characters.
29. fiil To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters or special characters.
30. fiil 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.”