Meanings (ES + gloss)
cambio • conmutación • deslizamiento • desplazamiento • desviación • transmudación • transmudamiento
An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
There was a shift in the political atmosphere.
c. 1620-1626, Henry Wotton, letter to Nicholas Pey My going to Oxford was not merely for shift of air.
jornada • jornal • turno
A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
We'll work three shifts a day till the job's done.
Work commenced at 2.30 p.m. on Saturday and continued without break until 4 a.m. on Monday morning, in the course of which three shifts of upwards of 90 men each and three steam cr…
cambio
The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
Does it come with a stick-shift?
mayús • tecla mayús • tecla mayúsculas • tecla shift
A bit shift.
Phrases
Bezold-Brücke shiftDoppler shiftLamb shiftPurkinje shiftShift InShift JISShift Outallylic shiftblue shiftblueshiftchain shiftchemical shiftcontinental shiftdative shiftfield shiftfirst shiftfrequency shift keyingfrequency-shift keyinggear shifthoot owl shifthot shiftisotope shiftlanguage shiftleft shiftlift and shiftlobster shiftmake-shiftmass shiftmodal shiftmoney shiftovulatory shift hypothesisparadigm shiftphase shift keyingphase-shift keyingput a shift inred shiftredshiftright shiftsecond shiftseismic shift
Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
desplazar • mover • mudar • transmudar
To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attent…
We'll have to shift these boxes to the downtown office.
moverse
To change position; to move.
His political stance shifted daily.
She shifted slightly in her seat.
cambiar
To change gears (in an automobile).
I crested the hill and shifted into fifth.
Phrases