Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of shift is as below...

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..

Random Fonts

Most Popular