Phrase Hound found 54 phrases and 37 compound words that contain shifts. The most common are listed below. Open shifts in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 54
- shifts the cutthird-person singular simple present indicative of shift the cut: To surreptitiously restore a deck of cards to their original sequence after having cut the deck.
- shifts the dialthird-person singular simple present indicative of shift the dial: To make a significant change or impact in a particular situation or context.
- day shiftsplural of day shift: A regularly scheduled period of work during daylight hours, especially 8AM to 4PM; sometimes a 12-hour shift, such as 6AM to 6PM.
- night shiftsplural of night shift: A regularly scheduled period of work, during evening or night hours.
- shape-shiftsthird-person singular simple present indicative of shape-shift: To change one's shape or form (into another) through often magical means, normally applied only to living beings.
- semantic shiftsplural of semantic shift: A change in the meaning of a word over time.
- paradigm shiftsplural of paradigm shift: A radical change in thinking from an accepted point of view to a new one, necessitated when new scientific discoveries produce anomalies in the current paradigm.
- seismic shiftsplural of seismic shift: A fundamental reorientation of a state of affairs.
- first shiftsplural of first shift: A regularly scheduled period of work, the first one in the standard working day of any particular company: usually during the day; and often from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
- second shiftsplural of second shift: A regularly scheduled period of work, and the second one in the standard working day of any particular company: usually in the afternoon through evening, and often from 4:00 p.m. to midnight.
- third shiftsplural of third shift: A regularly scheduled period of work, and the third one in the standard working day of any particular company: usually from midnight to 8:00 a.m.
- bit shiftsplural of bit shift: A bitwise operation in which the bits in a value are shifted left or right.
- chain shiftsplural of chain shift: A phonological modification of a vowel system or sometimes consonant system in which a change in a particular vowel or consonant causes other adjacent vowels or consonants to also change in order to avoid phonemic …
- chemical shiftsplural of chemical shift: The change in the nuclear magnetic resonance frequency of a nucleus depending on its electronic environment; used in NMR spectroscopy to determine the structure of molecules.
- continental shiftsplural of continental shift: A type of work cycle, most commonly at a manufacturing plant or institution, with shifts worked four days in a row, followed by four days off in a row. It can also commonly be implemented as working four days …
- field shiftsplural of field shift: The portion of an isotope shift produced by the changing shape of a nucleus upon the addition of a neutron
- gear shiftsplural of gear shift: That part of a gearbox involved in changing gear, including the lever and the forks attached to it.
- hot shiftsplural of hot shift: An early mechanism that synchronized the speeds of gear wheels when changing gear in an automobile.
- Lamb shiftsplural of Lamb shift: A small difference between the energy levels 2S_½ and 2P_½ of the hydrogen atom, not predicted by the Dirac equation, whose detection in the Lamb–Retherford experiment of 1947 foreshadowed the development of quantum …
- language shiftsplural of language shift: The process whereby a speech community shifts to a different language.
- left shiftsplural of left shift: A bit shift to the left, in which all of the bits of an operand are shifted by a given number of positions to the left.
- locking shiftsplural of locking shift: A state-dependent encoding mechanism used in data communication (such as GSM SMS) and character encoding standards to switch between different character sets or windows.
- make-shiftsplural of make-shift: To contrive; to invent a way of surmounting a difficulty.
- mass shiftsplural of mass shift: The portion of an isotope shift produced by the changing mass of a nucleus upon the addition of a neutron
- money shiftsplural of money shift: An incorrect shift to a lower gear, when meaning to shift to a higher gear.
Compound words 37
- redshiftsplural of redshift: An increase in the wavelength of a photon or of light, corresponding to a lower frequency and a shift toward the red end of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- downshiftsthird-person singular simple present indicative of downshift: A change of direction or a movement downwards.
- airshiftsplural of airshift: A block of continuous broadcast time, often four or six hours.
- autoshiftsplural of autoshift: An automatic shift.
- backshiftsplural of backshift: The changing of the tense of a verb from present to past in reported speech.
- bandshiftsplural of bandshift: The movement of a band during electrophoresis or spectroscopy
- bitshiftsplural of bitshift: A bitwise operation in which the bits in a value are shifted left or right.
- blameshiftsthird-person singular simple present indicative of blameshift: To blame another for one's own wrong-doing. Blameshifting can be caused by pointing the finger at another when trying to save one's own skin.
- blueshiftsplural of blueshift: A decrease in the wavelength of a photon or of light, corresponding to a higher frequency and a shift toward the blue end of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- dayshiftsplural of dayshift: A regularly scheduled period of work during daylight hours, especially 8AM to 4PM; sometimes a 12-hour shift, such as 6AM to 6PM.