Alter vs. Shift
Alterverb
(transitive) To change the form or structure of.
Alterverb
(intransitive) To become different.
Alterverb
(transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
Alterverb
(transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
Alterverb
(transitive) To affect mentally, as by psychotropic drugs or illness.
Alternoun
One of the identities or personalities of a person with multiple personality disorder / dissociative identity disorder.
Alterverb
To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.
Alterverb
To agitate; to affect mentally.
Alterverb
To geld.
Alterverb
To become, in some respects, different; to vary; to change; as, the weather alters almost daily; rocks or minerals alter by exposure.
Alterverb
cause to change; make different; cause a transformation;
Alterverb
make or become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence;
Alterverb
make an alteration to;
Alterverb
insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby
Alterverb
remove the ovaries of;
Alterverb
change in character or composition, typically in a comparatively small but significant way
Alterverb
make structural changes to (a building)
Alterverb
castrate or spay (a domestic animal).
Shiftnoun
(historical) A type of women's undergarment, a slip.
Shiftnoun
A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
Shiftnoun
An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
Shiftnoun
(US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
Shiftnoun
alternative spelling of Shift||a modifier button of computer keyboards.
Shiftnoun
(computing) A bit shift.
Shiftnoun
(baseball) The infield shift.
Shiftnoun
The act of kissing passionately.
Shiftnoun
(archaic) A contrivance, device to try when other methods fail.
Shiftnoun
(archaic) A trick, an artifice.
Shiftnoun
In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
Shiftnoun
(mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
Shiftnoun
(genetics) A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
Shiftverb
(transitive) To change, swap.
Shiftverb
(transitive) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
Shiftverb
(intransitive) To change position.
Shiftverb
To change (one's clothes); also to change (someone's) underclothes.
Shiftverb
(intransitive) To change gears (in a car).
Shiftverb
(typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.
Shiftverb
(computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.
Shiftverb
To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
Shiftverb
To remove the first value from an array.
Shiftverb
(transitive) To dispose of.
Shiftverb
(intransitive) To hurry.
Shiftverb
To engage in sexual petting.
Shiftverb
(archaic) To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
Shiftverb
To practice indirect or evasive methods.
Shiftverb
To divide; to distribute; to apportion.
Shiftverb
To change the place of; to move or remove from one place to another; as, to shift a burden from one shoulder to another; to shift the blame.
Shiftverb
To change the position of; to alter the bearings of; to turn; as, to shift the helm or sails.
Shiftverb
To exchange for another of the same class; to remove and to put some similar thing in its place; to change; as, to shift the clothes; to shift the scenes.
Shiftverb
To change the clothing of; - used reflexively.
Shiftverb
To put off or out of the way by some expedient.
Shiftverb
To divide; to distribute.
Shiftverb
To make a change or changes; to change position; to move; to veer; to substitute one thing for another; - used in the various senses of the transitive verb.
Shiftverb
To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
Shiftverb
To practice indirect or evasive methods.
Shiftverb
To slip to one side of a ship, so as to destroy the equilibrum; - said of ballast or cargo; as, the cargo shifted.
Shiftnoun
The act of shifting.
Shiftnoun
Something frequently shifted; especially, a woman's under-garment; a chemise.
Shiftnoun
The change of one set of workmen for another; hence, a spell, or turn, of work; also, a set of workmen who work in turn with other sets; as, a night shift.
Shiftnoun
In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
Shiftnoun
A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
Shiftnoun
A change of the position of the hand on the finger board, in playing the violin.
Shiftnoun
an event in which something is displaced without rotation
Shiftnoun
a qualitative change
Shiftnoun
the time period during which you are at work
Shiftnoun
the act of changing one thing or position for another;
Shiftnoun
the act of moving from one place to another;
Shiftnoun
(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other;
Shiftnoun
a group of workers who work for a specific period of time
Shiftnoun
a woman's sleeveless undergarment
Shiftnoun
a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
Shiftverb
make a shift in or exchange of;
Shiftverb
change place or direction;
Shiftverb
move around;
Shiftverb
move very slightly;
Shiftverb
move from one setting or context to another;
Shiftverb
change in quality;
Shiftverb
move and exchange for another;
Shiftverb
move sideways or in an unsteady way;
Shiftverb
move abruptly;
Shiftverb
use a shift key on a keyboard;
Shiftverb
change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change;
Shiftverb
change gears;
Shiftverb
lay aside, abandon, or leave for another;
Shiftverb
move or cause to move from one place to another, especially over a small distance
Shiftverb
change the position of one's body, especially because one is nervous or uncomfortable
Shiftverb
change the emphasis, direction, or focus of
Shiftverb
change in emphasis, direction, or focus
Shiftverb
move quickly
Shiftverb
move from a place or rouse oneself from a state of inactivity
Shiftverb
move (data) to the right or left in a register
Shiftverb
remove (a stain)
Shiftverb
sell (something)
Shiftverb
eat or drink (something) hastily or in large amounts.
Shiftverb
change gear in a vehicle
Shiftverb
be evasive or indirect
Shiftnoun
a slight change in position, direction, or tendency
Shiftnoun
the displacement of spectral lines.
Shiftnoun
a key on a typewriter or computer keyboard used to switch between two sets of characters or functions, principally between lower- and upper-case letters.
Shiftnoun
short for sound shift
Shiftnoun
the gear lever or gear-changing mechanism in a vehicle.
Shiftnoun
the positioning of successive rows of bricks so that their ends do not coincide.
Shiftnoun
a movement of the digits of a word in a register one or more places to left or right, equivalent to multiplying or dividing the corresponding number by a power of whatever number is the base.
Shiftnoun
a change of position by two or more players before the ball is put into play.
Shiftnoun
each of two or more recurring periods in which different groups of workers do the same jobs in relay
Shiftnoun
the group of people who work during a particular shift
Shiftnoun
a woman's straight unwaisted dress.
Shiftnoun
a long, loose-fitting undergarment.
Shiftnoun
an ingenious or devious device or stratagem
