Remove and Shift

remove

Degree of figurative distance or separation.
- usage: "just one remove from madness" or "it imitates at many removes a Shakespearean tragedy";

Remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract.
- usage: "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment"
- synonyms: take, take away, withdraw
Remove from a position or an office.
Dispose of.
- usage: "Get rid of these old shoes"; "The company got rid of all the dead wood"
- synonyms: get rid of
Cause to leave.
- usage: "The teacher took the children out of the classroom"
- synonyms: take out, move out
Shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes.
- usage: "He removed his children to the countryside"; "Remove the troops to the forest surrounding the city"; "remove a case to another court"
- synonyms: transfer
Go away or leave.
- usage: "He absented himself"
- synonyms: absent
Kill intentionally and with premeditation.
- usage: "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered"
- synonyms: murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off
Get rid of something abstract.
- usage: "The death of her mother removed the last obstacle to their marriage"; "God takes away your sins"
- synonyms: take away

(n.) The transfer of one's business or of one's domestic belongings, from one location or dwelling house to another; -- in the United States usually called a move.
(n.) That which is removed, as a dish removed from table to make room for something else.
(v.t.) To cause to leave a person or thing; to cause to cease to be; to take away; hence, to banish; to destroy; to put an end to; to kill; as, to remove a disease.
(v.t.) To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.
(n.) The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
(n.) The act of removing; a removal.
(v.t.) To dismiss or discharge from office; as, the President removed many postmasters.
(n.) The distance or space through which anything is removed; interval; distance; stage; hence, a step or degree in any scale of gradation; specifically, a division in an English public school; as, the boy went up two removes last year.
(n.) The state of being removed.
(v.i.) To change place in any manner or to make a change in place; to move or go from one residence, position or place to another.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

shift

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"
- synonyms: switch, switching
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.
- synonyms: chemise, shimmy, slip, teddy
A loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist.
- synonyms: chemise, sack

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"
- synonyms: stir, budge, agitate
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"
- synonyms: careen, wobble, tilt
Move abruptly.
- usage: "The ship suddenly lurched to the left"
- synonyms: lurch, pitch
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"
- synonyms: switch, change

(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.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary