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— English words —

• shift n. (Historical) A type of women’s undergarment of dress length worn under dresses or skirts, a slip or chemise.
• shift n. A simple straight-hanging, loose-fitting dress.
• shift n. A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
• shift n. An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
• shift n. (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
• shift n. Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).
• shift n. (Computing) A control code or character used to change between different character sets.
• shift n. (Computing) A bit shift.
• shift n. (Baseball) An infield shift.
• shift n. (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of kissing passionately.
• shift n. (Archaic) A contrivance, a device to try when other methods fail.
• shift n. (Archaic) A trick, an artifice.
• shift n. (Construction) The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are…
• shift n. (Mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
• shift n. (Genetics) A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
• shift n. (Music) In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.
• shift n. A period of time in which one’s consciousness resides in another reality, usually achieved through meditation…
• shift v. (Transitive, sometimes figurative) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
• shift v. (Transitive, intransitive, figurative) To change in form or character; switch.
• shift v. (Intransitive) To change position.
• shift v. (Intransitive, India) To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.
• shift v. (Obsolete, transitive) To change (clothes, especially underwear).
• shift v. (Obsolete, transitive, reflexive) To change (someone’s) clothes; sometimes specifically, to change underwear.
• shift v. (Intransitive) To change gears (in a car).
• shift v. (Typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.
• shift v. (Computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.
• shift v. (Transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
• shift v. (Transitive, computing) To remove the first value from an array.
• shift v. (Transitive) To dispose of.
• shift v. (Intransitive) To hurry; to move quickly.
• shift v. (Ireland, vulgar, slang) To engage in sexual petting.
• shift v. (Archaic) To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
• shift v. To practice indirect or evasive methods.
• shift v. (Music) In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut.
• shift v. To change the reality one’s consciousness resides in through meditation or other means.
• Shift n. (Computing) A modifier key whose main function is shifting between two or more functions of any of certain…

— English words, defined in French —

• shift n. Changement.
• shift n. Déplacement.
• shift n. Équipe, travail, service.
• shift n. (Linguistique) Variation, glissement.
• shift v. Décaler, déplacer.
• shift v. Bouger, se déplacer ; tourner (vent).
• shift v. Transférer, changer.
• shift v. Se déplacer.
• shift v. (Royaume-Uni) (Sens figuré) Écouler, vendre.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• shift s. Cambio.
• shift s. Turno.
• shift v. Mover.
• shift v. Cambiar.
• shift v. Correr, desplazar.

— English words, defined in Portuguese —

• shift s. Turno.
• shift s. Troca, desvio.
• shift s. Câmbio, marcha.
• shift v. Mudar, trocar.
• shift v. Mover.

— English words, defined in Italian —

• shift s. Lieve spostamento.
• shift s. Il tasto "shift" della tastiera.
• shift s. Turno.
• shift s. Gruppo di persone appartenenti ad un determinato turno.
• shift s. (US) una leva o altro meccanismo per cambiare marcia.

— In Dutch —

• shift n. Ploeg van een ploegendienst.
• shift n. Toets op het computertoetsenbord waardoor je o.a. hoofdletters kunt typen.
• shift n. Verandering of verplaatsing van de ene naar de andere plaats of toestand.

— In French —

• shift n.m. (Anglicisme) Période de travail effectué par une équipe.

— In Italian —

• shift s. (Forestierismo) tasto che permette di accedere ad un gruppo…

223 English words from 36 English definitions

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21 English words from 29 foreign definitions

Cambio changer che een équipe het leva Mover Mudar par per Sens service shift tasto travail trocar Uni van Variation vent

57 foreign words from 29 foreign definitions

altro andere Anglicisme appartenenti Bouger Cambiar cambiare Câmbio Changement Correr Décaler della Déplacement déplacer desplazar desvio determinato Écouler effectué ene figuré Forestierismo glissement gruppo hoofdletters kunt Lieve Linguistique marcha marcia meccanismo naar Période permette persone plaats Ploeg ploegendienst Royaume Royaume-Uni se␣déplacer Sens␣figuré spostamento tastiera toestand Toets tourner Transférer Troca turno typen una une vendre Verandering verplaatsing waardoor

63 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

shifta shifts Shifts shifty shiftas shifted shiftee shifter shiftin' shiftage shiftees shifters shiftest shifteth shiftful shiftier shiftily shifting shift␣key shift␣off shiftable shiftiest shiftings shift␣keys shift␣lead shiftless shiftlike shift␣lock shiftmate shiftwork shift␣work shift␣about shift␣dress shift␣gears shiftiness shiftingly shift␣lever shift␣locks shiftmates shiftogram shift␣stick shifty-eyed shiftyness shifter␣cart shift␣ground shiftlessly shift␣levers shiftograms shift␣the␣cut shiftworker +13 words

175 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

reshifts unshifts unshifty upshifts airshifts bitshifts bit-shifts bit␣shifts dayshifts day␣shifts hot␣shifts manshifts nymshifts preshifts redshifts red␣shifts reshifted subshifts tax␣shifts unshifted upshifted upshifter backshifts bandshifts bitshifted bit-shifted bit␣shifted blueshifts downshifts foreshifts gearshifts gear␣shifts Lamb␣shifts left␣shifts loanshifts makeshifts make-shifts make␣shifts makeshifty mass␣shifts nonshifted nymshifted nymshifter overshifts preshifted rankshifts redshifted reshifting timeshifts unshifting +125 words

85 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

coshift reshift unshift upshift airshift bitshift bit-shift bit␣shift dayshift day␣shift hot␣shift manshift midshift nymshift preshift redshift red␣shift subshift tax␣shift backshift bandshift blueshift downshift foreshift gearshift gear␣shift Lamb␣shift left␣shift loanshift made␣shift makeshift make-shift make␣shift mass␣shift overshift rankshift tilt-shift timeshift work␣shift blameshift chain␣shift fieldshift field␣shift frameshift lightshift makes␣shift money␣shift multishift nightshift night␣shift +35 words

4 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

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One word-in-word RTL (Word found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

IHS

18 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

faiths feiths fetish fifths fights filths firths Firths Fohist friths shifta shifts Shifts shifty shrift shufti thiefs tofish

27 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

fish Fish FISH fist FIST fits FiTs FITs HFTs hist Hist hist- hist. hits HITs ITFs iths shit SHTF sift sith this This tifs TIFs tish Tish

11 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

shaft shife shifu shirt shist skift smift snift swift Swift SWIFT

2 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

shit sift

One epenthesis (New word found when adding only one letter.)

shrift

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