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shift
noun as in switch, fluctuation
Strongest matches
about-face, alteration, change, conversion, deviation, move, transfer, transformation, variation
Strong matches
bend, changeover, deflection, displacement, double, fault, modification, passage, permutation, rearrangement, removal, shifting, substitution, tack, transference, transit, translocation, turn, veering, yaw
noun as in trick, stratagem
Strong matches
artifice, contrivance, craft, device, dodge, equivocation, evasion, expediency, expedient, gambit, hoax, makeshift, maneuver, ploy, recourse, refuge, resort, resource, ruse, stopgap, substitute, subterfuge, wile
noun as in time served doing work
verb as in switch, fluctuate
Strongest matches
alter, change, deviate, drift, move, relocate, remove, ship, shuffle, transfer, turn, vary, veer
Example Sentences
If something unseen -- almost a "cosmic ghost" -- distorts spacetime between a pulsar and Earth, the timing of its pulses shifts slightly.
When a liquid freezes, its particles shift from disorder to order.
Fed Chair Powell still gets high marks from the Journal’s panel of economists, but the distribution of grades shifted lower.
“Neighborhoods downtown shift and change so much,” she said.
Ms Bannister, who had worked at the hotel for about two years, since before it became an asylum hotel, was on late shift with Ms Whyte.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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