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Word: Shift
Speech Type: Verb
Old English sciftan ‘arrange, divide, apportion’, of Germanic origin; related to German schichten ‘to layer, stratify’. A common Middle English sense ‘change, replace’ gave rise to shift (sense 3 of the noun) (via the notion of changing one's clothes) and shift (sense 2 of the noun) (via the concept of relays of workers)
ʃɪft
move or cause to move from one place to another, especially over a small distance
Short Definition:move from one place to another
Examples:- a team from the power company came to shift the cables away from the house
- the roof cracked and shifted
change gear in a vehicle
Short Definition:change gear in vehicle
Examples:- she shifted down to fourth
be evasive or indirect
Short Definition:be evasive or indirect
Examples:- they know not how to shift and rob as the old ones do
kiss and engage in sexually stimulating activity with (someone)
Short Definition:kiss
Examples:- she had kissed or shifted him three months earlier at a house party
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