طرق النطق (3)
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/ˈʃɪft/
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[ˈʃʰɪft]
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ʃɪft
اسم
A movement to do something, a beginning.
الاستعمال- معدود
- غير معدود
An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
الاستعمال- معدود
- غير معدود
- أمثلة
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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.
أمثلة إضافية (1)
The generational shift Mr. Obama once embodied is, in fact, well under way, but it will not change Washington as quickly — or as harmoniously — as a lot of voters once hoped.
A share, a portion assigned on division.
الاستعمال- معدود
- مهجور
- غير معدود
A type of women's undergarment of dress length worn under dresses or skirts, a slip or chemise.
الاستعمال- معدود
- تاريخي
- غير معدود
- أمثلة
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Just last week she bought a new shift at the market.
أمثلة إضافية (2)
No; without a gown, in a shift that was somewhat of the coarsest, and none of the cleanest, bedewed likewise with some odoriferous effluvia, the produce of the day's labour, with a pitchfork in her hand, Molly Seagrim approached.
At length, one night, when the company by some accident broke up much sooner than ordinary, so that the candles were not half burnt out, she was not able to resist the temptation, but resolved to have them some way or other. Accordingly, as soon as the hurry was over, and the servants, as she thought, all gone to sleep, she stole out of her bed, and went down stairs, naked to her shift as she was, with a design to steal them […]
Some wear black shifts and flesh-coloured stockings; some with curly hair, dyed yellow, are dressed like little girls in short muslin frocks.
A simple straight-hanging, loose-fitting dress.
الاستعمال- معدود
- غير معدود
A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
الاستعمال- معدود
- غير معدود
- مرادفات
- أمثلة
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We'll work three shifts a day till the job's done.
أمثلة إضافية (1)
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 cranes were employed.
The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
الاستعمال- استعمال أمريكي
- معدود
- غير معدود
- أمثلة
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Does it come with a stick-shift?
A control code or character used to change between different character sets.
الاستعمال- معدود
- غير معدود
A control code or character used to change between different character sets. An instance of the use of such a code or character.
الاستعمال- معدود
- غير معدود
A bit shift.
الاستعمال- معدود
- غير معدود
An infield shift.
الاستعمال- معدود
- غير معدود
- أمثلة
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Teams often use a shift against this lefty.
The act of kissing passionately.
الاستعمال- Ireland
- often
- غير معدود
- usually
- with the definite article
- أمثلة
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أمثلة إضافية (2)
She flicked her hair out of her eyes again and looked into yours as you put your hands on her waist. Then her tongue was in your mouth and yours was in hers. You were getting the shift. Ye were shifting.
[If] I went on dates with these two [alcohols], right, you're a deep meaningful conversation with this one, … but this one? A shift and a finger and maybe you'd go home, do you know what I mean?
A contrivance, a device to try when other methods fail.
الاستعمال- عتيق
- معدود
- غير معدود
- أمثلة
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If I get down, and do not break my limbs, I'll find a thousand shifts to get away: As good to die and go, as die and stay.
A trick, an artifice.
الاستعمال- عتيق
- معدود
- غير معدود
- أمثلة
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And if the boy have not a woman's gift To rain a shower of commanded tears, An onion will do well for such a shift
Reduced to pitiable shifts.
أمثلة إضافية (2)
I'll find a thousand shifts to get away.
Little souls on little shifts rely.
The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
الاستعمال- معدود
- غير معدود
A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
الاستعمال- معدود
- غير معدود
A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
الاستعمال- معدود
- غير معدود
- أمثلة
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أمثلة إضافية (1)
This kind of change, called shift - or more memorably, 'viral sex' - tends to trigger a pandemic, because a radically different virus demands a radically different immune response, and that takes time to mobilise.
In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.
الاستعمال- معدود
- غير معدود
A period of time in which one's consciousness resides in another reality, usually achieved through meditation or other means.
الاستعمال- معدود
- غير معدود
be done; ruined
الاستعمال- British
- معدود
- لغة دارجة
- غير معدود
فعل
To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
الاستعمال- مجازي
- sometimes
- متعدٍ
- أمثلة
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We'll have to shift these boxes to the downtown office.
أمثلة إضافية (2)
By shifting the longitude problem to the scientific community, they stifled public criticism of their inability to solve the problem. […] 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 attention away from the realities of their life at sea.
The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
To change in form or character; switch.
الاستعمال- ergative
- مجازي
- مرادفات
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As a result, I shifted my approach to focus on group-generated activities and broadened the chronological time frame.
His voice shifted from song to whisper.
To change position; to move.
الاستعمال- مجازي
- لازم
- انعكاسي
- sometimes
- مرادفات
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She shifted slightly in her seat.
His political stance shifted daily.
أمثلة إضافية (2)
We were hoping he could shift himself to take care of the problem, but he couldn't be shifted.
A maverick is an unbranded calf that has been weaned and shifts for itself.
To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.
الاستعمال- India
- لازم
- أمثلة
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We are shifting to America next month.
To change (clothes, especially underwear); to change the clothes of.
الاستعمال- مهجور
- متعدٍ
- أمثلة
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'Tis very good to wash his hands and face often, to shift his clothes, to have fair linen about him, to be decently and comely attired […].
To change (someone's) clothes; sometimes specifically, to change underwear.
الاستعمال- مهجور
- انعكاسي
- متعدٍ
- أمثلة
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As it were, to ride day and night; and […] not to have patience to shift me.
أمثلة إضافية (1)
The first thing he did was to secure a convenient lodging at the inn where he dined; then he shifted himself, and according to the direction he had received, went to the house of Mrs. Gauntlet […].
To change gears (in an automobile).
الاستعمال- لازم
- أمثلة
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I crested the hill and shifted into fifth.
To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters or special characters.
To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters or special characters.
To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
الاستعمال- متعدٍ
- الأضداد
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Shifting 1001 to the left yields 10010; shifting it right yields 100.
To remove (the first value from an array).
الاستعمال- متعدٍ
To dispose of, remove.
الاستعمال- متعدٍ
- مرادفات
- أمثلة
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How can I shift a grass stain?
To hurry; to move quickly.
الاستعمال- لازم
- أمثلة
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If you shift, you might make the 2:19.
أمثلة إضافية (1)
Time is running out, so I renounce a spin on a Class 387 for a fast run to Paddington on another Class 800 - a shame as the weather was perfect for pictures. Even so, it's enjoyable - boy, can those trains shift under the wires.
To engage in sexual petting with.
الاستعمال- Ireland
- لغة دارجة
- متعدٍ
- بذيء
- أمثلة
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The question is what she's done to Waldron, said Eric. Look at him hiding in his locker there. Come on, spit it out. Did you shift her?
To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to cope, get by, manage, make do.
الاستعمال- عتيق
- لازم
- أمثلة
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You need to learn to shift for yourself.
[…] men in distress will look to themselves in the First Place, and leave their Companions to Shift as well as they can.
أمثلة إضافية (1)
My Fellow-Slaves were […] as courteous to me as I could well-expect; and as they had Plantations of their own, they gave me […] such Victuals as they had; especially on dark Nights, and at such Times as I could not shift for myself.
To practice indirect or evasive methods; to contrive.
الاستعمال- لازم
- أمثلة
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أمثلة إضافية (1)
But this I dare auow of all those Schoole-men, that though they were exceeding wittie, yet they better teach all their Followers to shift, then to resolue, by their distinctions.
In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut.
الاستعمال- لازم
To use meditation or other means to change the reality that one's consciousness resides in.
الاستعمال- لازم
- أمثلة
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I finally shifted to Hogwarts last night!
To steal or kidnap.
الاستعمال- Nigeria
- لغة دارجة
To crouch in game, especially if the shift key is pressed to initiate crouching.
اسم
an event in which something is displaced without rotation
- مرادفات
- مصطلحات أعمّ
a qualitative change
- مرادفات
- مصطلحات أعمّ
the time period during which you are at work
- مرادفات
- مصطلحات أعمّ
the act of changing one thing or position for another
- مصطلحات أعمّ
- أمثلة
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his switch on abortion cost him the election
the act of moving from one place to another
- مرادفات
- أمثلة
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his constant shifting disrupted the class
(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
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they built it right over a geological fault
he studied the faulting of the earth's crust
a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time
- مصطلحات أعمّ
the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters
- مرادفات
- مصطلحات أعمّ
a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- مصطلحات أعمّ
a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
فعل
make a shift in or exchange of
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- أمثلة
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First Joe led; then we switched
change place or direction
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- أمثلة
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Shift one's position
move around
- مرادفات
- أمثلة
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transfer the packet from his trouser pockets to a pocket in his jacket
move very slightly
- مصطلحات أعمّ
- أمثلة
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He shifted in his seat
move from one setting or context to another
- أمثلة
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shift the emphasis
shift one's attention
change in quality
- مصطلحات أعمّ
- أمثلة
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His tone shifted
move and exchange for another
- مصطلحات أعمّ
- أمثلة
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shift the date for our class reunion
move sideways or in an unsteady way
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- أمثلة
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The ship careened out of control
move abruptly
- مصطلحات أعمّ
- أمثلة
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The ship suddenly lurched to the left
use a shift key on a keyboard
- أمثلة
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She could not shift so all her letters are written in lower case
change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change
- مصطلحات أعمّ
- أمثلة
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Grimm showed how the consonants shifted
change gears
- أمثلة
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you have to shift when you go down a steep hill
lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
- مصطلحات أعمّ
- أمثلة
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switch to a different brand of beer
She switched psychiatrists
أمثلة إضافية (1)
The car changed lanes