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Shifting

adjective

1.

Continuously varying.

2.

Changing position or direction. Synonym: shifty. "Their nervous shifting glances" , "Shifty winds"

3.

(of soil) unstable. Synonym: unfirm. "Unfirm earth"

noun

1.

The act of moving from one place to another. Synonym: shift.

Shift

verb

(past & past part. shifted; pres. part. shifting)

1.

Make a shift in or exchange of. Synonyms: change over, switch.

2.

Change place or direction. Synonyms: dislodge, reposition.

3.

Move around. Synonym: transfer.

4.

Move very slightly. Synonyms: agitate, budge, stir.

5.

Move from one setting or context to another. "Shift one's attention"

6.

Change in quality.

7.

Move and exchange for another.

8.

Move sideways or in an unsteady way. Synonyms: careen, tilt, wobble.

9.

Move abruptly. Synonyms: lurch, pitch.

10.

Use a shift key on a keyboard.

11.

Change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change.

12.

Change gears.

13.

Lay aside, abandon, or leave for another. Synonyms: change, switch. "She switched psychiatrists" , "The car changed lanes"

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"Shifting" Quotes from Famous Books

... correctness of his surmise, because of their noble mien. If he suffered any disappointment in hearing proof of their identity, it was immediately nullified by the joy his artist-soul took in the stately Hebrew woman. He forgot the mission that urged him to the temple and, permitting the shifting, restless crowd to surround him, he lingered, thinking. This proud disdain must mark his goddess of stone in the Arabian hills, this majesty and power; but there must be youth and fire in the place of ...

— The Yoke - A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children - of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt • Elizabeth Miller

... to do with that. And don't you go a waving your precious hand, for it gives me such a turn to think you've let go, and have only got one hand to hold on with, and just turning the corner too, and the pony a shaking its tail, and shifting about with its back legs, till how you don't slip off on one side ...

— A Flat Iron for a Farthing - or Some Passages in the Life of an only Son • Juliana Horatia Ewing

... sharp knife and the corner of the panel. You go through the panel because that is thinnest, of course in the corner nearest the key, and you use a knife when you can, because it makes least noise. But it does take minutes, and even I can remember shifting the electric torch from one hand to the other before the aperture was large enough to receive the hand and wrist ...

— Raffles - Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman • E. W. Hornung

... picture, with the rivulets swelling larger at certain seasons, but seldom drying up entirely at any time. In the main the streamlets and rivers keep pretty much the same direction and volume one year after another, but then there is also a quiet shifting of these currents. Some grow larger, and others diminish gradually until they fade out entirely. In one of the regions from which they take their source a tree disease may cause a decline; in another, a hurricane may ...

— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers

... [FN324] This shifting theatre is evidently borrowed by Galland from Pliny (N. H. xxxvi., 24) who tells that in B. C. 50, C. Curio built two large wooden theatres which could be wheeled round and formed into an amphitheatre. The simple device seems to stir the ...

— Supplemental Nights, Volume 3 • Richard F. Burton

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