shift

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A movement to do something, a beginning. countable,uncountable
  2. An act of shifting; a slight movement or change. countable,uncountable
    — There was a shift in the political atmosphere.
  3. A share, a portion assigned on division. countable,obsolete,uncountable
  4. A type of women's undergarment of dress length worn under dresses or skirts, a slip or chemise. countable,historical,uncountable
    — Just last week she bought a new shift at the market.
  5. A simple straight-hanging, loose-fitting dress. countable,uncountable
  6. A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time. countable,uncountable
    — We'll work three shifts a day till the job's done.
  7. The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle. US,countable,uncountable
    — Does it come with a stick-shift?
  8. Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”). alt-of,alternative,countable,uncountable
    — If you press shift-P, the preview display will change.
  9. A control code or character used to change between different character sets. countable,uncountable
  10. A control code or character used to change between different character sets.; An instance of the use of such a code or character. countable,uncountable
  11. A bit shift. countable,uncountable
  12. An infield shift. countable,uncountable
    — Teams often use a shift against this lefty.
  13. The act of kissing passionately. Ireland,often,uncountable,usually
    — She flicked her hair out of her eyes again and looked into yours as you put your hands on her waist. Then her tongue was in your mouth and yours was in hers. You were getting the shift. Ye were shifting.
  14. A contrivance, a device to try when other methods fail. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — If I get down, and do not break my limbs, I'll find a thousand shifts to get away: As good to die and go, as die and stay.
  15. A trick, an artifice. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — And if the boy have not a woman's gift To rain a shower of commanded tears, An onion will do well for such a shift
  16. The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints. countable,uncountable
  17. A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault. countable,uncountable
  18. A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine. countable,uncountable
    — This kind of change, called shift - or more memorably, 'viral sex' - tends to trigger a pandemic, because a radically different virus demands a radically different immune response, and that takes time to mobilise.
  19. In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut. countable,uncountable
  20. A period of time in which one's consciousness resides in another reality, usually achieved through meditation or other means. countable,uncountable
  21. be done; ruined British,countable,slang,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To move from one place to another; to redistribute. figuratively,sometimes,transitive
    — We'll have to shift these boxes to the downtown office.
  2. To change in form or character; switch. ergative,figuratively
    — As a result, I shifted my approach to focus on group-generated activities and broadened the chronological time frame.
  3. To change position; to move. figuratively,intransitive,reflexive,sometimes
    — She shifted slightly in her seat.
  4. To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere. India,intransitive
    — We are shifting to America next month.
  5. To change (clothes, especially underwear); to change the clothes of. obsolete,transitive
    — '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. To change (someone's) clothes; sometimes specifically, to change underwear. obsolete,reflexive,transitive
    — As it were, to ride day and night; and […] not to have patience to shift me.
  7. To change gears (in an automobile). intransitive
    — I crested the hill and shifted into fifth.
  8. To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters or special characters.
  9. To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters or special characters.
  10. To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate. transitive
    — Shifting 1001 to the left yields 10010; shifting it right yields 100.
  11. To remove (the first value from an array). transitive
  12. To dispose of, remove. transitive
    — How can I shift a grass stain?
  13. To hurry; to move quickly. intransitive
    — If you shift, you might make the 2:19.
  14. To engage in sexual petting with. Ireland,slang,transitive,vulgar
    — The question is what she's done to Waldron, said Eric. Look at him hiding in his locker there. Come on, spit it out. Did you shift her?
  15. To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to cope, get by, manage, make do. archaic,intransitive
    — […] men in distress will look to themselves in the First Place, and leave their Companions to Shift as well as they can.
  16. To practice indirect or evasive methods; to contrive. intransitive
    — But this I dare auow of all those Schoole-men, that though they were exceeding wittie, yet they better teach all their Followers to shift, then to resolue, by their distinctions.
  17. In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut. intransitive
  18. To use meditation or other means to change the reality that one's consciousness resides in. intransitive
    — I finally shifted to Hogwarts last night!
  19. To steal or kidnap. Nigeria,slang
  20. To crouch in game, especially if the shift key is pressed to initiate crouching.

词形变化

shifts plural shifts present,singular,third-person shifting participle,present shifted participle,past shifted past

词汇关系

下位词
antigenic shift blueshift day shift graveyard shift locking shift make shift night shift redshift split shift swing shift wind shift
衍生词
airshift allylic shift Bezold-Brücke shift blueshift blue shift chain shift chemical shift chloride shift continental shift coshift dative shift Doppler shift field shift first shift foreshift frameshift frequency shift keying frequency-shift keying gear shift hoot owl shift hot shift isotope shift Lamb shift language shift left shift lift and shift lightshift loanshift lobster shift make-shift makeshift manshift mass shift midshift modal shift money shift multishift overshift ovulatory shift hypothesis paradigm shift phaseshift phase-shift keying phase shift keying phosphoshift Purkinje shift put a shift in red shift redshift right shift second shift seismic shift semantic shift shift and drift shift break shift dress shiftful shift in Shift JIS shift key shift lead shiftless shift lever shiftlike shift lock shiftmate shiftogram shift out shift register shift stick shift work shiftwork shiftworker shifty sound shift speedshift stickshift stick shift subshift tax shift third shift tilt-shift twilight shift vibe shift whiteshift work shift you're only as good as your last shift autoshift backshift downshift powershift rankshift supershift timeshift undershift upshift blameshift ever-shifting evershifting frameshifted misshift nonshifted nymshift placeshift preshift preshifted reshift shiftable shift about shiftage shiftee shifter shift gears shift ground shifting baseline syndrome shift off shift one's ground shift one's tides shift the cut shift the deckchairs on the Titanic shift the dial shift the goalposts transshift unshift unshifted

词源

词源 1
The noun is from Middle English schyft, shyffte. Cognate with German Schicht (“layer, shift”).
The verb is 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.
词源 2
The noun is from Middle English schyft, shyffte. Cognate with German Schicht (“layer, shift”).
The verb is 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.
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