meaning of shifts
1. To divide; to distribute.
2. 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.
3. To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
4. To practice indirect or evasive methods.
5. To slip to one side of a ship, so as to destroy the equilibrum; -- said of ballast or cargo; as, the cargo shifted.
Related Words
shiff | shift | shift register | shiftable | shifted | shifter | shiftily | shiftiness | shifting | shiftingly | shiftless | shiftlessness | shifty |
