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Shifting

adjective

1.

Continuously varying.

2.

Changing position or direction. Synonym: shifty. "Their nervous shifting glances" , "Shifty winds"

3.

(of soil) unstable. Synonym: unfirm. "Unfirm earth"

noun

1.

The act of moving from one place to another. Synonym: shift.

Shift

verb

(past & past part. shifted; pres. part. shifting)

1.

Make a shift in or exchange of. Synonyms: change over, switch.

2.

Change place or direction. Synonyms: dislodge, reposition.

3.

Move around. Synonym: transfer.

4.

Move very slightly. Synonyms: agitate, budge, stir.

5.

Move from one setting or context to another. "Shift one's attention"

6.

Change in quality.

7.

Move and exchange for another.

8.

Move sideways or in an unsteady way. Synonyms: careen, tilt, wobble.

9.

Move abruptly. Synonyms: lurch, pitch.

10.

Use a shift key on a keyboard.

11.

Change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change.

12.

Change gears.

13.

Lay aside, abandon, or leave for another. Synonyms: change, switch. "She switched psychiatrists" , "The car changed lanes"

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"Shifting" Quotes from Famous Books

... had no qualms about killing mountain-sheep, but he loved the lordly stags and would have lied to spare them. He rode on, with keen gaze shifting everywhere to catch a movement of something in this wilderness before him. If there was any living animal in sight it did not move. Wade crossed the hollow, wended a circuitous route through the upstanding forest of dead timber, and entered a thick ...

— The Mysterious Rider • Zane Grey

... The scene was ever shifting and becoming more and more lovely and fascinating, and the paradise was more extensive than ...

— Policeman Bluejay • L. Frank Baum

... shifting, and Thutmosis III., like Thutmosis I., vainly endeavoured to give it a fixed character by erecting stelas along the banks of the Euphrates, at those points where he contended it had run formerly. While Kharu and Phoenicia were completely in the hands of the conqueror, ...

— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 5 (of 12) • G. Maspero

... which Robert Fairchild's eyes went to the floor, in which he strove to avoid the gaze of every one in the crowded court room. He knew what they were thinking, that his father had been a murderer, and that he—well, that he was blood of his father's blood. He could hear the buzzing of tongues, the shifting of the court room on the unstable chairs, and he knew fingers were pointing at him. For once in his life he had not the strength to face his fellow men. A quarter of an hour—a knock on the door—then the ...

— The Cross-Cut • Courtney Ryley Cooper

... that have divided parties:— a. The Tariff. b. Internal Improvements. c. A National Bank. d. The present attitude towards these three questions. e. The shifting of ground in arguing the tariff question. f. The reason ...

— Civil Government in the United States Considered with - Some Reference to Its Origins • John Fiske

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