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Returning and Shift

returning

verb

  • Go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before.
    • usage: "return to your native land"; "the professor returned to his teaching position after serving as Dean"
  • Give back.
    • usage: "render money"
  • Go back to a previous state.
    • usage: "We reverted to the old rules"
  • Go back to something earlier.
    • usage: "This harks back to a previous remark of his"
  • Bring back to the point of departure.
  • Return in kind.
    • usage: "return a compliment"; "return her love"
  • Make a return.
    • usage: "return a kickback"
  • Answer back.
  • Be restored.
    • usage: "Her old vigor returned"
  • Pay back.
    • usage: "Please refund me my money"
  • Pass down.
    • usage: "render a verdict"; "deliver a judgment"
  • Elect again.
  • Be inherited by.
    • usage: "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead"
  • Return to a previous position; in mathematics.
    • usage: "The point returned to the interior of the figure"
  • Give or supply.
    • usage: "The cow brings in 5 liters of milk"; "This year's crop yielded 1, 000 bushels of corn"; "The estate renders some revenue for the family"
  • Submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority.
    • usage: "submit a bill to a legislative body"

adjective

  • Tending to return to an earlier state.
  • Tending to be turned back.
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(p.pr.&vb.n.) of Return.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
shift

noun

  • An event in which something is displaced without rotation.
  • A qualitative change.
  • The time period during which you are at work.
  • 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"
  • 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"
  • 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.
  • 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"
  • Change place or direction.
    • usage: "Shift one's position"
  • Move around.
    • usage: "transfer the packet from his trouser pockets to a pocket in his jacket"
  • 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"
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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