Shift

v. t.	1.	To divide; to distribute; to apportion. [imp. & p. p. Shifted; p. pr. & vb. n. Shifting.] To which God of his bounty would shift Crowns two of flowers well smelling. - Chaucer.
	2.	To change the place of; to move or remove from one place to another; as, to shift a burden from one shoulder to another; to shift the blame. Hastily he schifte him[self]. - Piers Plowman. Pare saffron between the two St. Mary's days, Or set or go shift it that knowest the ways. - Tusser.
	3.	To change the position of; to alter the bearings of; to turn; as, to shift the helm or sails. Carrying the oar loose, [they] shift it hither and thither at pleasure. - Sir W. Raleigh.
	4.	To exchange for another of the same class; to remove and to put some similar thing in its place; to change; as, to shift the clothes; to shift the scenes. I would advise you to shift a shirt. - Shak.
	5.	To change the clothing of; - used reflexively. As it were to ride day and night; and . . . not to have patience to shift me. - Shak.
	6.	To put off or out of the way by some expedient. To shift off to delay; to defer; to put off; to lay aside. To shift the scene to change the locality or the surroundings, as in a play or a story. Shift the scene for half an hour; Time and place are in thy power. - Swift.
v. i.	1.	To divide; to distribute. Some this, some that, as that him liketh shift. - Chaucer.
	2.	To make a change or changes; to change position; to move; to veer; to substitute one thing for another; - used in the various senses of the transitive verb. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered pantaloon. - Shak. Here the Baillie shifted and fidgeted about in his seat. - Sir W. Scott.
	3.	To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage. Men in distress will look to themselves, and leave their companions to shift as well as they can. - L'Estrange.
	4.	To practice indirect or evasive methods. All those schoolmen, though they were exceeding witty, yet better teach all their followers to shift, than to resolve by their distinctions. - Sir W. Raleigh.
	5.	(Naut.) To slip to one side of a ship, so as to destroy the equilibrum; - said of ballast or cargo; as, the cargo shifted.
n.	1.	The act of shifting. My going to Oxford was not merely for shift of air. - Sir H. Wotton. I 'll find a thousand shifts to get away. - Shak. Little souls on little shifts rely. - Dryden.
	2.	Something frequently shifted; especially, a woman's under-garment; a chemise.
	3.	The change of one set of workmen for another; hence, a spell, or turn, of work; also, a set of workmen who work in turn with other sets; as, a night shift.
	4.	In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
	5.	(Mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
	6.	(Mus.) A change of the position of the hand on the finger board, in playing the violin. To make shift to contrive or manage in an exigency. - Shak. [They] made a shift to keep their own in Ireland. - Milton.

Noun	1.	shift - an event in which something is displaced without rotation Synonyms: displacement
	2.	shift - a qualitative change Synonyms: transformation, transmutation
	3.	shift - the time period during which you are at work Synonyms: duty period, work shift
	4.	shift - the act of changing one thing or position for another; "his switch on abortion cost him the election" Synonyms: switching, switch
	5.	shift - the act of moving from one place to another; "his constant shifting disrupted the class" Synonyms: shifting
	6.	shift - (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other; "they built it right over a geological fault" Synonyms: geological fault, fault, fracture, break
	7.	shift - a group of workers who work for a specific period of time
	8.	shift - a woman's sleeveless undergarment Synonyms: chemise, teddies, teddy, shimmy, slip
	9.	shift - a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist Synonyms: chemise, sack
Verb	1.	shift - make a shift in or exchange of; "First Joe led; then we switched" Synonyms: change over, switch
	2.	shift - change place or direction; "Shift one's position" Synonyms: reposition, dislodge
	3.	shift - move around; "transfer the packet from his trouser pockets to a pocket in his jacket" Synonyms: transfer
	4.	shift - move very slightly; "He shifted in his seat" Synonyms: budge, stir, agitate
	5.	shift - move from one setting or context to another; "shift the emphasis"; "shift one's attention"
	6.	shift - change in quality; "His tone shifted"
	7.	shift - move and exchange for another; "shift the date for our class reunion"
	8.	shift - move sideways or in an unsteady way; "The ship careened out of control" Synonyms: careen, wobble, tilt
	9.	shift - move abruptly; "The ship suddenly lurched to the left" Synonyms: lurch, pitch
	10.	shift - use a shift key on a keyboard; "She could not shift so all ther letters are written in lower case"
	11.	shift - change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change; "Grimm showed how the consonants shifted"
	12.	shift - change gears; "you have to shift when you go down a steep hill"
	13.	shift - lay aside, abandon, or leave for another; "switch to a different brand of beer"; "She switched psychiatrists"; "The car changed lanes" Synonyms: switch, change

SHIFT - Scalable Heterogeneous Integrated Facility Testbed. A parallel processing project at CERN.

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