ALL meanings of unshifting
un·shift
U u - verb without object unshifting to move from one place, position, direction, etc., to another. 1
- verb without object unshifting to manage to get along or succeed by oneself. 1
- verb without object unshifting to get along by indirect methods; use any expediency, trick, or evasion to get along or succeed: He shifted through life. 1
- verb without object unshifting to change gears in driving an automobile. 1
- verb without object unshifting Linguistics. to undergo a systematic, especially phonetic, change. 1
- verb without object unshifting to press a shift key, as on a typewriter keyboard. 1
- verb without object unshifting Archaic. to change one's clothes. 1
- verb with object unshifting to put (something) aside and replace it by another or others; change or exchange: to shift friends; to shift ideas. 1
- verb with object unshifting to transfer from one place, position, person, etc., to another: to shift the blame onto someone else. 1
- verb with object unshifting Automotive. to change (gears) from one ratio or arrangement to another. 1
- verb with object unshifting Linguistics. to change in a systematic way, especially phonetically. 1
- noun unshifting a change or transfer from one place, position, direction, person, etc., to another: a shift in the wind. 1
- noun unshifting a person's scheduled period of work, especially the portion of the day scheduled as a day's work when a shop, service, office, or industry operates continuously during both the day and night: She prefers the morning shift. 1
- noun unshifting a group of workers scheduled to work during such a period: The night shift reported. 1
- noun unshifting Baseball. a notable repositioning by several fielders to the left or the right of their normal playing position, an occasional strategy against batters who usually hit the ball to the same side of the field. 1
- noun unshifting Automotive. a gearshift. 1
- noun unshifting Clothing. a straight, loose-fitting dress worn with or without a belt. a woman's chemise or slip. 1
- noun unshifting Football. a lateral or backward movement from one position to another, usually by two or more offensive players just before the ball is put into play. 1
- noun unshifting Mining. a dislocation of a seam or stratum; fault. 1
- noun unshifting Music. a change in the position of the left hand on the fingerboard in playing a stringed instrument. 1
- noun unshifting Linguistics. a change or system of parallel changes that affects the sound structure of a language, as the series of related changes in the English vowel system from Middle English to Modern English. a change in the meaning or use of a word. Compare functional shift. 1
- noun unshifting an expedient; ingenious device. 1
- noun unshifting an evasion, artifice, or trick. 1
- noun unshifting change or substitution. 1
- noun unshifting Bridge. shift bid. 1
- noun unshifting Agriculture. any of successive crops. the tract of land used. 1
- noun unshifting an act or instance of using the shift key, as on a typewriter keyboard. 1
- idioms unshifting shift gears. gear (def 19). 1
- verb unshifting present participle of unshift. 0