Shift
nounid
125922·updated May 16, 2026“Shift” is retired. It does not tag in any document, it is excluded from the anchor pack, and it does not hold its lemma — so another term can take it.
deprecated
the act of changing one thing or position for another
polysemous
Attested in
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Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
No variants recorded
This term has no surface-form variants in the lexicon yet, so it tags only its canonical form.
Framework definitions
- §1
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- §2
- the act of moving from one place to another
- §3
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
- §4
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- §5
- the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters
- §6
- a qualitative change
- §7
- an event in which something is displaced without rotation
- §8
- a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time
- §9
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- §10
- the time period during which you are at work
Outgoing relationships
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This term is not the subject of any RDF-style relationship yet.
Incoming relationships
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No other term currently asserts a relationship to this one.