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say it: shift
shift is a verb and noun meaning "make a shift in or exchange of". It carries 23 recorded senses.
make a shift in or exchange of
“First Joe led; then we switched”
change place or direction
“Shift one's position”
use a shift key on a keyboard
“She could not shift so all her letters are written in lower case”
change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change
“Grimm showed how the consonants shifted”
phonetics
lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
“switch to a different brand of beer”
“She switched psychiatrists”
“The car changed lanes”
an event in which something is displaced without rotation
a qualitative change
the time period during which you are at work
the act of changing one thing or position for another
“his switch on abortion cost him the election”
(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
“they built it right over a geological fault”
“he studied the faulting of the earth's crust”
a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time
the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for shift come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.
geology