verb
- Commit once again, as of a crime.
- Commit again.
- usage: "It was recommitted into her custody"
- Send back to a committee.
- usage: "The bill was recommitted three times in the House"
Recommit and Shift
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
noun
- An event in which something is displaced without rotation.
- synonyms: displacement
- A qualitative change.
- synonyms: transformation, transmutation
- The time period during which you are at work.
- synonyms: work shift, duty period
- The act of changing one thing or position for another.
- usage: "his switch on abortion cost him the election"
- The act of moving from one place to another.
- usage: "his constant shifting disrupted the class"
- synonyms: shifting
- Geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other. (
- usage: "they built it right over a geological fault"; "he studied the faulting of the earth's crust"
- synonyms: fault, faulting, geological fault, fracture, break
- A crew of workers who work for a specific period of time.
- The key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters.
- synonyms: shift key
- A woman's sleeveless undergarment.
- A loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist.
verb
- Make a shift in or exchange of.
- usage: "First Joe led; then we switched"
- synonyms: switch, change over
- Change place or direction.
- usage: "Shift one's position"
- synonyms: dislodge, reposition
- Move around.
- usage: "transfer the packet from his trouser pockets to a pocket in his jacket"
- synonyms: transfer
- Move very slightly.
- usage: "He shifted in his seat"
- Move from one setting or context to another.
- usage: "shift the emphasis"; "shift one's attention"
- Change in quality.
- usage: "His tone shifted"
- Move and exchange for another.
- usage: "shift the date for our class reunion"
- Move sideways or in an unsteady way.
- usage: "The ship careened out of control"
- Move abruptly.
- usage: "The ship suddenly lurched to the left"
- Use a shift key on a keyboard.
- usage: "She could not shift so all her letters are written in lower case"
- Change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change.
- usage: "Grimm showed how the consonants shifted"
- Change gears.
- usage: "you have to shift when you go down a steep hill"
- Lay aside, abandon, or leave for another.
- usage: "switch to a different brand of beer"; "She switched psychiatrists"; "The car changed lanes"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.t.) To change the position of; to alter the bearings of; to turn; as, to shift the helm or sails.
- (v.t.) The act of shifting.
- (v.t.) The act of putting one thing in the place of another or of changing the place of a thing; change; substitution.
- (v.t.) 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.
- (v.t.) To change the clothing of; -- used reflexively.
- (v.t.) A change of the position of the hand on the finger board, in playing the violin.
- (v.t.) In building, the extent or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
- (v.t.) To put off or out of the way by some expedient.
- (v.t.) 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.
- (v.t.) Something frequently shifted; especially, a woman's under-garment; a chemise.
- (v.t.) To divide; to distribute; to apportion.
- (v.t.) 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.
- (v.t.) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
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