amerikai:
brit:
1. A modifier key whose main function is shifting between two or more functions of any of certain other keys (usually by pressing Shift and the other button simultaneously).
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?
5. A bit shift.
6. The infield shift.
Teams often use the shift against this lefty.
7. (often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of kissing passionately.
8. A contrivance, a device to try when other methods fail.
9. A trick, an artifice.
10. 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.
12. A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
13. In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.
1. (sometimes figurative) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
We'll have to shift these boxes to the downtown office.
2. To change in form or character; swap.
3. To change position.
His political stance shifted daily.
4. To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.
We are shifting to America next month.
Szinonimák: move
5. To change (clothes, especially underwear).
6. To change (someone's) clothes; sometimes specifically, to change underwear.
7. To change gears (in a car).
I crested the hill and shifted into fifth.
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. 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.
11. To remove the first value from an array.
12. To dispose of.
How can I shift a grass stain?
13. To hurry.
If you shift, you might make the 2:19.
14. To engage in sexual petting.
15. To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
16. To practice indirect or evasive methods.
17. In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut.