Synonym: alter, change, substitute, vary. Similar words: lift, drift, fifty, fifth, gifted, fifteen, gift shop, shit. Meaning: [ʃɪft] 
n. 1. an event in which something is displaced without rotation 2. a qualitative change 3. the time period during which you are at work 4. the act of changing one thing or position for another 5. the act of moving from one place to another 6. (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other 7. a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time 8. the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters 9. a woman's sleeveless undergarment 10. a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist. v. 1. make a shift in or exchange of 2. change place or direction 3. move around 4. move very slightly 5. move from one setting or context to another 6. change in quality 7. move and exchange for another 8. move sideways or in an unsteady way 9. move abruptly 10. use a shift key on a keyboard 11. change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change 12. change gears 13. lay aside, abandon, or leave for another.
n. 1. an event in which something is displaced without rotation 2. a qualitative change 3. the time period during which you are at work 4. the act of changing one thing or position for another 5. the act of moving from one place to another 6. (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other 7. a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time 8. the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters 9. a woman's sleeveless undergarment 10. a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist. v. 1. make a shift in or exchange of 2. change place or direction 3. move around 4. move very slightly 5. move from one setting or context to another 6. change in quality 7. move and exchange for another 8. move sideways or in an unsteady way 9. move abruptly 10. use a shift key on a keyboard 11. change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change 12. change gears 13. lay aside, abandon, or leave for another. 
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211, Traditional current affairs departments haven't quite figured out how to adjust their agenda to meet the shift.
212, I checked my watch as I dialled: 9.15, which meant the admin shift should be into their first tea-break by now.
213, This rate has dipped significantly in the last two years reflecting the shift in priorities of the government's cultural policy.
214, Runyon credits his drive to improve overnight mail service in urban areas for much of the shift in attitude.
215, A border is a dividing line marking an abrupt shift between two separate, sometimes antagonistic, entities.
215, Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and make good sentences.
216, The prospect of artificial intelligence and life online has contributed to a radical shift in interpersonal relations.
217, To neglect maintenance, however, is only to shift the burden from one part of the household budget to another.
218, This shift was certainly leftward in one sense.
219, If the power shift pressure decreases, the pump will upstroke in order to increase the output of the pump.
220, Cyclic shift permutation structure is an important part of partial parallel decoder for quasi-cyclic LDPC codes.
221, The recording laser shift from red laser to blue laser in next generation optical storage.
222, Although the risks of offshore drilling are much harder to quantify than the benefits, I believe the shift in the benefit-cost ratio has been large enough so that the time has come to allow drilling.
223, To be happy, I knew I make a shift, I just didn't know where to head.
224, Timm, Lenora. 1980. Bilingualism, diglossia and language shift in Brittany. International Journal of the Society of Language, 25:29-42.
225, I may want to write my code in UTF-8, but some Japanese programmer may want to write his code in Shift JIS.
226, Developing civilian-run enterprise helps to promote the reform and reorganization of state-owned economy and shift from binary economic structure to monistic structure.
227, Ever since Thucydides observed that the shift in power from Sparta to Athens was the fundamental cause of the Peloponnesian War, scholars have watched such moments with apprehension.
228, Now that school has started, many parents find themselves struggling to shift their kids back to a working routine.
229, Its target is nine million and officials are hoping that the SDF's decision to shift gears will bring in more voters.
230, But every little shift in Iraqi Kurdish politics is judged by whether it brings sovereignty closer.
231, Can you shift the blame onto him alone and yet have a clear conscience?
232, Less than seventy years after the appearance of the first moving pictures, the shift from hero-worship to celebrity-worship was complete.
233, It is shown that the Goos-Hnchen shift of the transmitted light beam in propagating case is a periodical function of the air-gap thickness, incidence angle and the refractive index of two prisms.
234, IT TOOK quite literally a bomb to shift the big powers into concerted action at the United Nations Security Council against a long-defiant, boastfully nuclear-capable North Korea.
More similar words: lift, drift, fifty, fifth, gifted, fifteen, gift shop, shit, T-shirt, cash in, fishing, fashion, cash in on, ownership, membership, leadership, old-fashioned, citizenship, scholarship, partnership, championship, relationship.