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Life is the same. It would be the same thing if I were still working at Starbucks, having to deal with a manager, and a shift manager. This is a job.
Azealia Banks

Meaning of "shift" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SHIFT

Old English sciftan; related to Old Norse skipta to divide, Middle Low German schiften, to separate.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF SHIFT

shift  [ʃɪft] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SHIFT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Shift is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb shift in English.

WHAT DOES SHIFT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Shift

Shift may refer to: ▪ Gear shift, to change gears in a car ▪ Shift work, an employment practice ▪ Shift, an improvised knife used as a weapon ▪ Shift, a simple kind of undergarment ▪ Shift, a group of players in ice hockey...

Definition of shift in the English dictionary

The first definition of shift in the dictionary is to move or cause to move from one place or position to another. Other definition of shift is to change for another or others. Shift is also to change in a motor vehicle.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SHIFT

PRESENT

Present
I shift
you shift
he/she/it shifts
we shift
you shift
they shift
Present continuous
I am shifting
you are shifting
he/she/it is shifting
we are shifting
you are shifting
they are shifting
Present perfect
I have shifted
you have shifted
he/she/it has shifted
we have shifted
you have shifted
they have shifted
Present perfect continuous
I have been shifting
you have been shifting
he/she/it has been shifting
we have been shifting
you have been shifting
they have been shifting
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I shifted
you shifted
he/she/it shifted
we shifted
you shifted
they shifted
Past continuous
I was shifting
you were shifting
he/she/it was shifting
we were shifting
you were shifting
they were shifting
Past perfect
I had shifted
you had shifted
he/she/it had shifted
we had shifted
you had shifted
they had shifted
Past perfect continuous
I had been shifting
you had been shifting
he/she/it had been shifting
we had been shifting
you had been shifting
they had been shifting
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will shift
you will shift
he/she/it will shift
we will shift
you will shift
they will shift
Future continuous
I will be shifting
you will be shifting
he/she/it will be shifting
we will be shifting
you will be shifting
they will be shifting
Future perfect
I will have shifted
you will have shifted
he/she/it will have shifted
we will have shifted
you will have shifted
they will have shifted
Future perfect continuous
I will have been shifting
you will have been shifting
he/she/it will have been shifting
we will have been shifting
you will have been shifting
they will have been shifting
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would shift
you would shift
he/she/it would shift
we would shift
you would shift
they would shift
Conditional continuous
I would be shifting
you would be shifting
he/she/it would be shifting
we would be shifting
you would be shifting
they would be shifting
Conditional perfect
I would have shift
you would have shift
he/she/it would have shift
we would have shift
you would have shift
they would have shift
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been shifting
you would have been shifting
he/she/it would have been shifting
we would have been shifting
you would have been shifting
they would have been shifting
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you shift
we let´s shift
you shift
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to shift
Past participle
shifted
Present Participle
shifting
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SHIFT


adrift
əˈdrɪft
airlift
ˈɛəˌlɪft
deadlift
ˈdɛdˌlɪft
drift
drɪft
festschrift
ˈfɛstˌʃrɪft
forklift
ˈfɔːkˌlɪft
gearshift
ˈɡɪəʃɪft
gift
ɡɪft
lift
lɪft
makeshift
ˈmeɪkˌʃɪft
miffed
mɪft
redshift
ˈredˌʃɪft
rift
rɪft
shoplift
ˈʃɒplɪft
sift
sɪft
stairlift
ˈstɛəˌlɪft
swift
swɪft
thrift
θrɪft
uplift
ʌpˈlɪft
ZIFT
zɪft

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SHIFT

shiest
shift key
shift lock
shift register
shift worker
shiftable
shifter
shiftier
shiftiest
shiftily
shiftiness
shifting
shifting cultivation
shifting sands
shifting spanner
shiftless
shiftlessly
shiftlessness
shiftstick
shiftwork

WORDS THAT END LIKE SHIFT

back shift
blueshift
day shift
Doppler shift
downshift
Einstein shift
frameshift
function shift
graveyard shift
Great Vowel Shift
Lamb shift
manshift
night shift
paradigm shift
sound shift
split shift
stick shift
swing shift
unshift
vowel shift

Synonyms and antonyms of shift in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SHIFT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «shift» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of shift

Translation of «shift» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SHIFT

Find out the translation of shift to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of shift from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «shift» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

转换
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

desplazamiento
570 millions of speakers

English

shift
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पारी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تَغْيِير
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

перемещение
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

mudança
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পরিবর্তন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

déplacement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Peralihan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Verschiebung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

変化
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

이동
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Shift
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự thay đổi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மாற்றம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शिफ्ट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

vardiya
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

spostamento
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zmiana
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

зміна
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

schimbare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μετατόπιση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verskuiwing
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skift
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

skift
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of shift

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SHIFT»

The term «shift» is very widely used and occupies the 4.170 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SHIFT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about shift

EXAMPLES

10 QUOTES WITH «SHIFT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word shift.
1
Marc Andreessen
Nokia and Research in Motion needed a modern operating system. They could have bought Palm or Android before Google did, but they didn't. Today, it's probably too late, and at the time they would have been criticized for overpaying, but as they say - shift happens.
2
Marcia Angell
When death is imminent and dying patients find their suffering unbearable, then the physician's role should shift from healing to relieving suffering in accord with the patient's wishes.
3
Azealia Banks
Life is the same. It would be the same thing if I were still working at Starbucks, having to deal with a manager, and a shift manager. This is a job.
4
Joe Barton
Wind is God's way of balancing heat. Wind is the way you shift heat from areas where it's hotter to areas where it's cooler. That's what wind is.
5
Dennis C. Blair
The Industrial Revolution caused a centuries-long shift in power to the West; globalization is now shifting the balance again.
6
Steven Curtis Chapman
Country music is just country. It's going to shift around a little bit, doing some different instrumentations, different production styles. But it will always come back to what you heard at the Opry. Nobody wants it to change.
7
Helen Clark
Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.
8
Nina Conti
When I'm gigging, there's an uneasy shift when I pull a puppet out. People look at me aghast and I feel I have about 20 seconds to win them over. You even get the prejudice among other people in your own profession.
9
Mick Cornett
It is not OK for anyone to be obese. There needs to be a cultural shift.
10
David Crosby
Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHIFT»

Discover the use of shift in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to shift and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Night Shift
More than twenty-five stories of horror and nightmarish fantasy transform everyday situations into experiences of compelling terror in the worlds of the living, the dying, and the nonliving.
Stephen King, 2008
2
Church Shift
Nigerian-born Adelaja, pastor of the largest charismatic church in Europe, shares his remarkable life story, including how he has overcome prejudice and persecution in predominantly white, Orthodox Ukraine, and how his church members ...
Sunday Adelaja, 2008
3
Shift
Imagine your world shifting.... Shift is a breathtaking tour-de-force that explores the depths of loyalty and friendship—and the unknowable depths of another person.
Jennifer Bradbury, 2010
4
The Hormone Shift: How to Resolve Issues with Your Mood, ...
Sex? Are you kidding?
Dawn M. Cutillo, 2012
5
Quarterly Essay 39 Power Shift: Australia's Future between ...
In the third Quarterly Essay of 2010, Hugh White considers Australia’s future between Beijing and Washington.
Hugh White, 2010
6
The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home
Updated for a workforce now half female, this edition cites a range of new studies and statistics and includes a new afterword in which Hochschild assesses how much-and how little-has changed for women today.
Arlie Hochschild, Anne Machung, 2012
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Reversing Language Shift: Theoretical and Empirical ...
This book is about the theory and practice of assistance to speech-communities whose native languages are threatened because their intergenerational continuity is proceeding negatively, with fewer and fewer speakers (or readers, writers and ...
Joshua A. Fishman, 1991
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Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific ...
In this book, Ervin Laszlo presents a new “reality map” to guide us through the world shifts we are experiencing--the problems, opportunities, and challenges we face individually as well as collectively--in order to help us understand ...
Ervin Laszlo, 2008
9
Power Shift: China and Asia's New Dynamics
Proceedings from the conference "China and Asia: Towards a New Regional Order," convened in December 2003 at The George Washington University"--Acknowledgments.
David L. Shambaugh, 2005
10
The Great Risk Shift : The Assault on American Jobs, ...
The book documents how two great pillars of economic security--the family and the workplace--guarantee far less financial stability than they once did.
Jacob S. Hacker Professor of Political Science Yale University, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHIFT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term shift is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Shift workers more likely to get cancer, scientists warn
Although scientists cautioned that the results needed further tests on human, they said women with a history of breast cancer should never work shifts. «The Independent, Jul 15»
2
G7 climate vision requires gargantuan economic shift
STOCKHOLM (AP) — When leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy countries pledge to "decarbonize" the global economy, they're talking about a shift so ... «Yahoo News, Jun 15»
3
Shift workers are 'more likely to be fat and suffer health problems …
Shift workers are more likely to be overweight and suffer chronic health problems such as diabetes, a study found. This is because they don't get sufficient sleep. «Daily Mail, May 15»
4
Major league teams relying on shift more often
The Rockies are among the teams utilizing the shift more often this season, relying on analytics to be more aggressive on defense. Through Sunday, Colorado ... «USA TODAY, May 15»
5
NBC Renews The Night Shift, Undateable, and The Mysteries of …
The Night Shift and Undateable will each return for their third seasons after both making the jump from summer to spring in Season 2. However, according to The ... «TV Guide, May 15»
6
Childcare: Shift workers will receive government-subsidised …
“Key workers such as nurses, police, ambulance and firefighters as well as shift workers are too often cut off from government support for their families to access ... «The Daily Telegraph, Apr 15»
7
How Baseball's Infields Are Shifting, Thanks to Big Data
Baseball Info Solutions, a high-tech company based in Pennsylvania, provided data to 21 major league clubs last year. The result: infielders shifting from left to ... «NBC Bay Area, Mar 15»
8
The Night Shift hopes to keep audience growing
But after NBC's The Night Shift finally began airing last summer, surprising critics with its strong ratings, the network ordered another season. Rodriguez then ... «Toronto Star, Feb 15»
9
Unifor halts contract talks with Air Canada over shift trading rules
Unifor says negotiators suspended talks on a new contract for customer sales and service agents after Air Canada released planned changes to shift trading ... «The Globe and Mail, Feb 15»
10
Concord Carjacker Thwarted by Confusion Over Stick Shift
... at 7:49 PM PDT on Sunday, Feb 15, 2015. Police in Northern California say a man attempting an armed carjacking bailed when he couldn't drive a stick shift. «NBC Bay Area, Feb 15»

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