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shifting en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈʃɪftɪŋ/

Meanings

  1. A shift or change; a shifting movement.
    • I remember the last time I saw Macbeth played, the discrepancy I felt at the changes of garment which he varied, the shiftings and reshiftings, like a Romish priest at mass. 1811, Charles Lamb, On the Tragedies of Shakespeare Considered with Reference to their Fitness for Stage Representation:
    • Then everyone moved at the same time — slight shiftings of the hands and feet, furtive easings of position. 1978, Jack Vance, The View from Chickweed's Window:
    • But shiftings and readjustments ensued, as they are sure to do with a walking-party. Cope presently found himself scuffling through the thin grass and the briery thickets alongside the young business-man. 1919, Henry B[lake] Fuller, “Cope at His House Party”, in Bertram Cope’s Year: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, The Alderbrink Press, →OCLC, page 94:
  2. The phenomenon by which two or more constituents appearing on the same side of their common head exchange positions to obtain non-canonical order.

Forms

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Deriveds

time shifting · pixel shifting · placeshifting · gear-shifting · frameshifting · spaceshifting · shifting cultivation · reality shifting · money shifting · shifting executory interest · shifting spanner