Shift

  • 41shift — I. verb Etymology: Middle English, from Old English sciftan to divide, arrange; akin to Old Norse skipa to arrange, assign Date: 13th century transitive verb 1. to exchange for or replace by another ; change 2. a. to change the place, position,… …

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  • 42shift — SYN: change. SEE ALSO: deviation. antigenic s. mutation, i.e., sudden change in molecular structure of RNA/DNA in microorganisms, especially viruses, which produces new strains; hosts previously exposed to other strains have little or no acquired …

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  • 43shift — [ʃɪft] verb 1》 move or change or cause to move or change from one position to another.     ↘move one s body slightly due to discomfort. 2》 change the emphasis, direction, or focus of: she s shifting the blame on to me. 3》 Brit. informal move… …

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  • 44shift — To change gears. See floor shift rail, shift side shift stick shift …

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  • 45Shift-Or — Der Baeza Yates Gonnet Algorithmus bzw. Shift or Algorithmus, der auch unter dem Namen Shift and bekannt ist, löst das String Matching Problem indem er einen nichtdeterministischen Automaten simuliert. Unter anderem wird eine Abwandlung dieses… …

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  • 46shift — 1. verb /ʃɪft/ a) To change, swap. His political stance shifted daily. b) to move from one place to another; to redistribute. Well have to shift these boxes to the downtown office. 2. noun /ʃɪft/ …

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  • 47shift — 1. verb 1) she shifted her position Syn: change, alter, adjust, vary; modify, revise, reverse, retract; do a U turn Ant: keep 2) the cargo has shifted Syn …

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  • 48Shift — Touche Maj Pour les articles homonymes, voir maj. Photo d un clavier américain Sur les claviers, la touche Maj (aussi appelé par son nom …

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  • 49Shift — noun A modifier key whose main function is shifting between two or more functions of any of certain other keys (usually by pressing Shift and the other button simultaneously). Syn: shift key …

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  • 50shift — [OE] Old English sciftan meant ‘arrange’ (it came from a prehistoric Germanic base *skip , 453 shiver which also produced German schichten ‘arrange in layers, pile up’, and traces of its original meaning survive in make shift [16], denoting… …

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