Definition of shift

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Shift (v. t.) 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..

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Shirk :: Shirk (n.) One who lives by shifts and tricks; one who avoids the performance of duty or labor.
Variable :: Variable (n.) A shifting wind, or one that varies in force..
Dodge :: Dodge (v. i.) To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start..
Shift :: Shift (v. t.) To put off or out of the way by some expedient.
Quibble :: Quibble (n.) A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil.
Shifter :: Shifter (n.) An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions..
Baffle :: Baffle (v. t.) To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.
Faineant :: Faineant (a.) Doing nothing; shiftless.
Shifting :: Shifting (a.) Adapted or used for shifting anything.
Lurch :: Lurch (v. i.) To dodge; to shift; to play tricks.
Shifting :: Shifting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shif.
Shift :: Shift (v. t.) To change the position of; to alter the bearings of; to turn; as, to shift the helm or sails..
Parry :: Parry (v. t.) To avoid; to shift or put off; to evade.
Shopshift :: Shopshift (n.) The trick of a shopkeeper; deception.
Scene :: Scene (n.) The decorations and fittings of a stage, representing the place in which the action is supposed to go on; one of the slides, or other devices, used to give an appearance of reality to the action of a play; as, to paint scenes; to shift the scenes; to go behind the scenes..
Shifter :: Shifter (n.) One who, or that which, shifts; one who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener..
Tack :: Tack (v. i.) To change the direction of a vessel by shifting the position of the helm and sails; also (as said of a vessel), to have her direction changed through the shifting of the helm and sails. See Tack, v. t., 4..
Quirk :: Quirk (n.) A sudden turn; a starting from the point or line; hence, an artful evasion or subterfuge; a shift; a quibble; as, the quirks of a pettifogger..
Shifty :: Shifty (a.) Full of, or ready with, shifts; fertile in expedients or contrivance..
Shift :: Shift (v. t.) A change of the position of the hand on the finger board, in playing the violin..
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