“shifted” is a form of
shift
/ˈʃɪft/ noun, verb
Forms shifts shifting shifted
- noun A movement to do something, a beginning.
- noun An act of shifting; a slight movement or change. “There was a shift in the political atmosphere.”
- noun (obsolete) A share, a portion assigned on division.
- noun (historical) A type of women's undergarment of dress length worn under dresses or skirts, a slip or chemise. “Just last week she bought a new shift at the market.”
- noun A simple straight-hanging, loose-fitting dress.
- noun A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time. “We'll work three shifts a day till the job's done.”
- noun (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle. “Does it come with a stick-shift?”
- noun (computing) A control code or character used to change between different character sets.
- verb (transitive, sometimes figurative) To move from one place to another; to redistribute. “We'll have to shift these boxes to the downtown office.”
- verb (ergative, figurative) To change in form or character; switch.
- verb (intransitive, sometimes reflexive and figurative) To change position; to move. “She shifted slightly in her seat.”
- verb (intransitive, India) To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere. “We are shifting to America next month.”
- verb (obsolete, transitive) To change (clothes, especially underwear); to change the clothes of.
- verb (obsolete, transitive, reflexive) To change (someone's) clothes; sometimes specifically, to change underwear.
- verb (intransitive) To change gears (in an automobile). “I crested the hill and shifted into fifth.”
- verb (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters or special characters.
- noun (computing) A modifier key whose main function is shifting between two or more functions of any of certain other keys (usually by pressing Shift and the other button simultaneously).
Synonyms
workshift turn of duty relocate transfer budge interchange move rearrange redistribute stir travel swap commute counterchange exchange replace substitute switch transpose convert displacement transformation transmutation work shift duty period switching shifting fault faulting geological fault
Antonyms
Etymology
The verb is from Middle English schiften, from Old English sċiftan (“to divide, separate into shares; appoint, ordain; arrange, organise”), from Proto-West Germanic *skiftijan, from Proto-Germanic *skiftijaną, *skiptijaną, from earlier *skipatjaną (“to organise, put in order”), from Proto-Indo-European *skeyb- (“to separate, divide, part”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut, divide, separate, part”). Cognate with Scots schift, skift (“to shift”), West Frisian skifte, skiftsje (“to sort”), Dutch schiften (“to sort, screen, winnow, part”), Low German schichten (“to stack, layer”), German schichten (“to stack, layer”), Swedish skifta (“to shift, change, exchange, vary”), Norwegian skifte (“to shift”), Icelandic skipta (“to switch”). See ship.
The noun is from Middle English schyft, shyffte. Cognate with Dutch schift (“split, fissure”), German Schicht (“layer, shift”).
From shift.
Webster’s 1913
- verb To divide; to distribute; to apportion. [Obs.]
- verb 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.
- verb To divide; to distribute. [Obs.]
- verb To make a change or changes; to change position; to move; to veer; to substitute one thing for another; --used in the various senses of the transitive verb.
Etymology [OE. shiften, schiften, to divide, change, remove. AS. sciftan to divide; akin to LG. & D. schiften to divide, distinguish, part Icel. skipta to divide, to part, to shift, to change, Dan skifte, Sw. skifta, and probably to Icel. skifa to cut into slices, as n., a slice, and to E. shive, sheave, n., shiver, n.]
Etymology [Cf. Icel skipti. See Shift, v. t.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “shift”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details