How to pronounce “shift”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A movement to do something, a beginning.
• An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
• (obsolete) A share, a portion assigned on division.
• (historical) A type of women's undergarment of dress length worn under dresses or skirts, a slip or chemise.
• A simple straight-hanging, loose-fitting dress.
• A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
• (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
• Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).
• (computing) A control code or character used to change between different character sets.
• (computing) A bit shift.
• (baseball) An infield shift.
• (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of kissing passionately.
• (archaic) A contrivance, a device to try when other methods fail.
• (archaic) A trick, an artifice.
• (construction) The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
• (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
• (genetics) A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
• (music) In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.
• A period of time in which one's consciousness resides in another reality, usually achieved through meditation or other means.
• (British slang) be done; ruined
• [Verb]
• (transitive, sometimes figurative) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
• (ergative, figurative) To change in form or character; switch.
• (intransitive, sometimes reflexive and figurative) To change position; to move.
• (intransitive, India) To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.
• (obsolete, transitive) To change (clothes, especially underwear); to change the clothes of.
• (obsolete, transitive, reflexive) To change (someone's) clothes; sometimes specifically, to change underwear.
• (intransitive) To change gears (in an automobile).
• (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters or special characters.
• (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters or special characters.
• (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
• (transitive, computing) To remove (the first value from an array).
• (transitive) To dispose of, remove.
• (intransitive) To hurry; to move quickly.
• (Ireland, vulgar, slang, transitive) To engage in sexual petting with.
• (archaic, intransitive) To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to cope, get by, manage, make do.
• (intransitive) To practice indirect or evasive methods; to contrive.
• (intransitive, music) In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut.
• (intransitive) To use meditation or other means to change the reality that one's consciousness resides in.
• (Nigeria, slang) To steal or kidnap.
• (Minecraft, video games) To crouch in game, especially if the shift key is pressed to initiate crouching.

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