shift key

Questions about shift key

What is another word for shift key?

It depends which shift key you mean. In the sense “the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters”, the synonyms are shift. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of shift key?

WordNet records no antonym for shift key. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for shift key come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of shift key

• Full entry for shift keyAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for shift keyWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.