SHIFT

Shift

Shift is a fictional character in the children's fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis. He is the main antagonist of The Last Battle, which is the last book of the series.

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shift

Noun

  1. a type of women's undergarment, a slip
    Just last week she bought a new shift at the market.
  2. 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.
  3. an act of shifting; a slight movement or change
    There was a shift in the political atmosphere.
  4. the gear mechanism in a motor vehicle
    Does it come with a stick-shift?
    If you press shift-P, the preview display will change.
  5. a bit shift
  6. The infield shift.
    Teams often use the shift against this lefty.
  7. The act of sexual petting.
  8. A contrivance, device to try when other methods fail
  9. a trick, an artifice
  10. In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
  11. A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.

Verb

  1. To change, swap.
  2. To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
  3. To change position.
  4. To change (one's clothes); also to change (someone's) underclothes.
  5. To change gears (in a car).
  6. To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
  7. To remove the first value from an array.
  8. To dispose of.
  9. To hurry.
  10. To engage in sexual petting.
  11. To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
  12. To practice indirect or evasive methods.


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