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31shift one's ground — change one s position in an argument. → shift …
32shift — ʃɪft n. scheduled work period; change in position, change in direction; replacement, substitution; transfer, exchange; ruse, trick; loose fitting woman s dress; woman s slip v. move; cause to move; transfer from one place to another; exchange,… …
33shift one's ground — change position …
34Half shift — Half Half (h[aum]f), a. [AS. healf, half, half; as a noun, half, side, part; akin to OS., OFries., & D. half, G. halb, Sw. half, Dan. halv, Icel. h[=a]lfr, Goth. halbs. Cf. {Halve}, {Behalf}.] 1. Consisting of a moiety, or half; as, a half… …
35Circular shift — In combinatorial mathematics, a circular shift is the operation of rearranging the entries in a tuple, either by moving the final entry to the first position, while shifting all other entries to the next position, or by performing the inverse… …
36Great Vowel Shift — The Great Vowel Shift was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] The Great Vowel Shift was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860–1943), a Danish linguist and Anglicist, who …
37Logical shift — In computer science, a logical shift is a shift operator that shifts all the bits of its operand. Unlike an arithmetic shift, a logical shift does not preserve a number s sign bit or distinguish a number s exponent from its mantissa; every bit in …
38NIH shift — An NIH shift is a chemical rearrangement where a hydrogen atom on an aromatic ring undergoes an intramolecular migration primarily during a hydroxylation reaction. This process is also known as a 1,2 hydride shift. These shifts are often studied… …
39tautomeric shift — The transfer of a hydrogen atom from one position in an organic molecule to another position. Tautomers can have widely different biological activities, as the shift can induce a significant change in the conformation of the molecule …
40To make shift — Shift Shift, n. [Cf. Icel. skipti. See {Shift}, v. t.] 1. The act of shifting. Specifically: (a) The act of putting one thing in the place of another, or of changing the place of a thing; change; substitution. [1913 Webster] My going to Oxford… …
