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You can make 27 words from shift according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of shift

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Definitions and meaning of shift

shift

Etymology

From Middle English schiften, from Old English sċiftan (“to divide, separate into shares; appoint, ordain; arrange, organise”), from Proto-Germanic *skiftijaną, *skiptijaną, from earlier *skipatjaną (“to organise, put in order”), from Proto-Indo-European *skeyb- (“to separate, divide, part”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut, divide, separate, part”). Cognate with Scots schift, skift (“to shift”), West Frisian skifte, skiftsje (“to sort”), Dutch schiften (“to sort, screen, winnow, part”), German schichten (“to stack, layer”), Swedish skifta (“to shift, change, exchange, vary”), Norwegian skifte (“to shift”), Icelandic skipta (“to switch”). See ship.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) enPR: shĭft, IPA^(key): /ʃɪft/
• Rhymes: -ɪft

Noun

shift (countable and uncountable, plural shifts)

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

   There was a shift in the political atmosphere.

   • c. 1620-1626, Henry Wotton, letter to Nicholas Pey

     My going to Oxford was not merely for shift of air.
3. (obsolete) A share, a portion assigned on division.
4. (historical) A type of women's undergarment of dress length worn under dresses or skirts, a slip or chemise.
5. A simple straight-hanging, loose-fitting dress.
6. A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.

   Synonym: workshift

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

7. (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.

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

9. (computing) A control code or character used to change between different character sets.
   1. (computing) An instance of the use of such a code or character.
10. (computing) A bit shift.
11. (baseball) An infield shift.

12. (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of kissing passionately.
13. (archaic) A contrivance, a device to try when other methods fail.
14. (archaic) A trick, an artifice.
15. (construction) The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
16. (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
17. (genetics) A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
18. (music) In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.
19. A period of time in which one's consciousness resides in another reality, usually achieved through meditation or other means.
20. (British slang) be done; ruined

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Verb

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

1. (transitive, sometimes figurative) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
2. (transitive, intransitive, figurative) To change in form or character; switch.
3. (intransitive) To change position.

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

   Synonym: move

5. (obsolete, transitive) To change (clothes, especially underwear).
   • , 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 […].

6. (obsolete, transitive, reflexive) To change (someone's) clothes; sometimes specifically, to change underwear.
7. (intransitive) To change gears (in a car).

8. (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.
9. (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.
10. (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.

11. (transitive, computing) To remove the first value from an array.
12. (transitive) To dispose of.

13. (intransitive) To hurry; to move quickly.
14. (Ireland, vulgar, slang) To engage in sexual petting.
15. (archaic) To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
16. To practice indirect or evasive methods.
17. (music) In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut.
18. To change the reality one's consciousness resides in through meditation or other means.

19. (Nigeria, slang) To steal or kidnap.

Synonyms

• (to change, swap): interchange, swap; See also Thesaurus:switch
• (to move from one place to another): relocate, transfer; See also Thesaurus:move
• (to change position): reposition
• (to dispose of): get rid of, remove; See also Thesaurus:junk
• (to hurry): hasten, rush; See also Thesaurus:rush
• (to engage in sexual petting): fondle, grope; see also Thesaurus:fondle

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of "computing"): unshift

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Translations

Dutch

Etymology

From English shift.

Pronunciation

Noun

shift m (plural shifts, diminutive shiftje n)

1. shift (people working in turn)

   Synonym: ploeg

2. shift (button on a keyboard)
3. shift (the act of shifting)

   Synonym: verschuiving

Related terms

• schiften, geschift
• taxshift

Descendants

• → Caribbean Javanese: syif

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English shift.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃift/

Noun

shift m (plural shifts)

1. shift (people working in turn)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Noun

shift m (plural shifts)

1. shift (button on a keyboard)