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...

Shifter :: Shifter (n.) An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions..

Doubling :: Doubling (n.) A turning and winding; as, the doubling of a hunted hare; shift; trick; artifice..

Shuffle :: Shuffle (v. i.) To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.

Subterrane :: Subterfuge (n.) That to which one resorts for escape or concealment; an artifice employed to escape censure or the force of an argument, or to justify opinions or conduct; a shift; an evasion..

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) To divide; to distribute; to apportion.

Prevaricate :: Prevaricate (v. i.) To shift or turn from one side to the other, from the direct course, or from truth; to speak with equivocation; to shuffle; to quibble; as, he prevaricates in his statement..

Quibble :: Quibble (n.) A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil.

Sceneshifter :: Sceneshifter (n.) One who moves the scenes in a theater; a sceneman.

Variable :: Variable (n.) A shifting wind, or one that varies in force..

Shopshift :: Shopshift (n.) The trick of a shopkeeper; deception.

Jibe :: "Jibe (v. i.) To change a ship's course so as to cause a shifting of the boom. See Jibe, v. t., and Gybe..

Whiffle :: Whiffle (v. i.) To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about..

Roustabout :: Roustabout (n.) A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs..

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) To change the position of; to alter the bearings of; to turn; as, to shift the helm or sails..

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) Something frequently shifted; especially, a woman's under-garment; a chemise..

Unshiftable :: Unshiftable (a.) That may /ot be shifted.

Palter :: Palter (v. i.) To act in insincere or deceitful manner; to play false; to equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle.

Shiftable :: Shiftable (a.) Admitting of being shifted.

Shirk :: Shirk (n.) One who lives by shifts and tricks; one who avoids the performance of duty or labor.

Parry :: Parry (v. t.) To avoid; to shift or put off; to evade.

Random Fonts

Most Popular