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shifting
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Shifting
(gcide) | Shift \Shift\ (sh[i^]ft), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shifted; p. pr.
& vb. n. Shifting.] [OE. shiften, schiften, to divide,
change, remove. AS. sciftan to divide; akin to LG. & D.
schiften to divide, distinguish, part Icel. skipta to divide,
to part, to shift, to change, Dan skifte, Sw. skifta, and
probably to Icel. sk[imac]fa to cut into slices, as n., a
slice, and to E. shive, sheave, n., shiver, n.]
1. To divide; to distribute; to apportion. [Obs.]
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To which God of his bounty would shift
Crowns two of flowers well smelling. --Chaucer.
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2. To change the place of; to move or remove from one place
to another; as, to shift a burden from one shoulder to
another; to shift the blame.
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Hastily he schifte him[self]. --Piers
Plowman.
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Pare saffron between the two St. Mary's days,
Or set or go shift it that knowest the ways.
--Tusser.
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3. To change the position of; to alter the bearings of; to
turn; as, to shift the helm or sails.
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Carrying the oar loose, [they] shift it hither and
thither at pleasure. --Sir W.
Raleigh.
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4. To exchange for another of the same class; to remove and
to put some similar thing in its place; to change; as, to
shift the clothes; to shift the scenes.
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I would advise you to shift a shirt. --Shak.
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5. To change the clothing of; -- used reflexively. [Obs.]
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As it were to ride day and night; and . . . not to
have patience to shift me. --Shak.
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6. To put off or out of the way by some expedient. "I shifted
him away." --Shak.
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To shift off, to delay; to defer; to put off; to lay aside.
To shift the scene, to change the locality or the
surroundings, as in a play or a story.
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Shift the scene for half an hour;
Time and place are in thy power. --Swift.
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Shifting
(gcide) | Shifting \Shift"ing\, a.
1. Changing in place, position, or direction; varying;
variable; fickle; as, shifting winds; shifting opinions or
principles.
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2. Adapted or used for shifting anything.
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Shifting backstays (Naut.), temporary stays that have to be
let go whenever the vessel tacks or jibes.
Shifting ballast, ballast which may be moved from one side
of a vessel to another as safety requires.
Shifting center. See Metacenter.
Shifting locomotive. See Switching engine, under
Switch.
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shifting
(wn) | shifting
adj 1: continuously varying; "taffeta with shifting colors"
2: changing position or direction; "he drifted into the shifting
crowd"; "their nervous shifting glances"; "shifty winds"
[syn: shifting, shifty]
3: (of soil) unstable; "shifting sands"; "unfirm earth" [syn:
shifting, unfirm]
n 1: the act of moving from one place to another; "his constant
shifting disrupted the class" [syn: shift, shifting] |
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forward shifting
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shifting
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shifting of tax
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shifting of tax burden
(encz) | shifting of tax burden, |
consonant shifting
(gcide) | Lautverschiebung \Laut"ver*schie`bung\
(lout"f[e^]r*sh[=e]`b[oo^]ng), n.; pl. Lautverschiebungen
(lout"f[e^]r*sh[=e]`b[oo^]ng*en). [G.; laut sound +
verschiebung shifting.] (Philol.)
(a) The regular changes which the primitive Indo-European
stops, or mute consonants, underwent in the Teutonic
languages, probably as early as the 3d century b. c.,
often called the first Lautverschiebung, {sound
shifting}, or consonant shifting.
(b) A somewhat similar set of changes taking place in the
High German dialects (less fully in modern literary
German) from the 6th to the 8th century, known as the
second Lautverschiebung, the results of which form the
striking differences between High German and The Low
German Languages. The statement of these changes is
commonly regarded as forming part of Grimm's law,
because included in it as originally framed.
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Shifting backstays
(gcide) | Shifting \Shift"ing\, a.
1. Changing in place, position, or direction; varying;
variable; fickle; as, shifting winds; shifting opinions or
principles.
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2. Adapted or used for shifting anything.
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Shifting backstays (Naut.), temporary stays that have to be
let go whenever the vessel tacks or jibes.
Shifting ballast, ballast which may be moved from one side
of a vessel to another as safety requires.
Shifting center. See Metacenter.
Shifting locomotive. See Switching engine, under
Switch.
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Shifting ballast
(gcide) | Shifting \Shift"ing\, a.
1. Changing in place, position, or direction; varying;
variable; fickle; as, shifting winds; shifting opinions or
principles.
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2. Adapted or used for shifting anything.
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Shifting backstays (Naut.), temporary stays that have to be
let go whenever the vessel tacks or jibes.
Shifting ballast, ballast which may be moved from one side
of a vessel to another as safety requires.
Shifting center. See Metacenter.
Shifting locomotive. See Switching engine, under
Switch.
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Shifting center
(gcide) | Shifting \Shift"ing\, a.
1. Changing in place, position, or direction; varying;
variable; fickle; as, shifting winds; shifting opinions or
principles.
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2. Adapted or used for shifting anything.
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Shifting backstays (Naut.), temporary stays that have to be
let go whenever the vessel tacks or jibes.
Shifting ballast, ballast which may be moved from one side
of a vessel to another as safety requires.
Shifting center. See Metacenter.
Shifting locomotive. See Switching engine, under
Switch.
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Shifting locomotive
(gcide) | Shifting \Shift"ing\, a.
1. Changing in place, position, or direction; varying;
variable; fickle; as, shifting winds; shifting opinions or
principles.
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2. Adapted or used for shifting anything.
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Shifting backstays (Naut.), temporary stays that have to be
let go whenever the vessel tacks or jibes.
Shifting ballast, ballast which may be moved from one side
of a vessel to another as safety requires.
Shifting center. See Metacenter.
Shifting locomotive. See Switching engine, under
Switch.
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Shifting use
(gcide) | Use \Use\, n. [OE. us use, usage, L. usus, from uti, p. p. usus,
to use. See Use, v. t.]
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1. The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's
service; the state of being so employed or applied;
application; employment; conversion to some purpose; as,
the use of a pen in writing; his machines are in general
use.
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Books can never teach the use of books. --Bacon.
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This Davy serves you for good uses. --Shak.
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When he framed
All things to man's delightful use. --Milton.
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2. Occasion or need to employ; necessity; as, to have no
further use for a book. --Shak.
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3. Yielding of service; advantage derived; capability of
being used; usefulness; utility.
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God made two great lights, great for their use
To man. --Milton.
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'T is use alone that sanctifies expense. --Pope.
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4. Continued or repeated practice; customary employment;
usage; custom; manner; habit.
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Let later age that noble use envy. --Spenser.
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How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,
Seem to me all the uses of this world! --Shak.
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5. Common occurrence; ordinary experience. [R.]
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O Caesar! these things are beyond all use. --Shak.
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6. (Eccl.) The special form of ritual adopted for use in any
diocese; as, the Sarum, or Canterbury, use; the Hereford
use; the York use; the Roman use; etc.
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From henceforth all the whole realm shall have but
one use. --Pref. to
Book of Common
Prayer.
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7. The premium paid for the possession and employment of
borrowed money; interest; usury. [Obs.]
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Thou art more obliged to pay duty and tribute, use
and principal, to him. --Jer. Taylor.
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8. [In this sense probably a corruption of OF. oes, fr. L.
opus need, business, employment, work. Cf. Operate.]
(Law) The benefit or profit of lands and tenements. Use
imports a trust and confidence reposed in a man for the
holding of lands. He to whose use or benefit the trust is
intended shall enjoy the profits. An estate is granted and
limited to A for the use of B.
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9. (Forging) A stab of iron welded to the side of a forging,
as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by
hammering, so as to lengthen the forging.
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Contingent use, or Springing use (Law), a use to come
into operation on a future uncertain event.
In use.
(a) In employment; in customary practice observance.
(b) In heat; -- said especially of mares. --J. H. Walsh.
Of no use, useless; of no advantage.
Of use, useful; of advantage; profitable.
Out of use, not in employment.
Resulting use (Law), a use, which, being limited by the
deed, expires or can not vest, and results or returns to
him who raised it, after such expiration.
Secondary use, or Shifting use, a use which, though
executed, may change from one to another by circumstances.
--Blackstone.
Statute of uses (Eng. Law), the stat. 27 Henry VIII., cap.
10, which transfers uses into possession, or which unites
the use and possession.
To make use of, To put to use, to employ; to derive
service from; to use.
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Shiftingly
(gcide) | Shiftingly \Shift"ing*ly\, adv.
In a shifting manner.
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sound shifting
(gcide) | Lautverschiebung \Laut"ver*schie`bung\
(lout"f[e^]r*sh[=e]`b[oo^]ng), n.; pl. Lautverschiebungen
(lout"f[e^]r*sh[=e]`b[oo^]ng*en). [G.; laut sound +
verschiebung shifting.] (Philol.)
(a) The regular changes which the primitive Indo-European
stops, or mute consonants, underwent in the Teutonic
languages, probably as early as the 3d century b. c.,
often called the first Lautverschiebung, {sound
shifting}, or consonant shifting.
(b) A somewhat similar set of changes taking place in the
High German dialects (less fully in modern literary
German) from the 6th to the 8th century, known as the
second Lautverschiebung, the results of which form the
striking differences between High German and The Low
German Languages. The statement of these changes is
commonly regarded as forming part of Grimm's law,
because included in it as originally framed.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.] |
shifting
(wn) | shifting
adj 1: continuously varying; "taffeta with shifting colors"
2: changing position or direction; "he drifted into the shifting
crowd"; "their nervous shifting glances"; "shifty winds"
[syn: shifting, shifty]
3: (of soil) unstable; "shifting sands"; "unfirm earth" [syn:
shifting, unfirm]
n 1: the act of moving from one place to another; "his constant
shifting disrupted the class" [syn: shift, shifting] |
time shifting
(foldoc) | time shifting
A technique used to work around problems due to
the Year 2000 and the "millennium bug". Time shifting
involves translating date fields in a database back by a fixed
number of years to avoid year 2000 problems with the {database
management system}.
Typically dates are shifted back 28 years so that the occurrence
of leap years and days of the week match with the actual year.
(2003-08-15)
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SHIFTING USE
(bouvier) | SHIFTING USE, estates. One which takes effect in derogation of some other
estate, and is either limited by the deed creating it, or authorized to be
created by some person named in it. This is sometimes called a secondary
use.
2. The following is an example: If an estate be limited to A and his
heirs, with a proviso that if B pay to A one hundred dollars by a time
named, the use to A shall ease, and the estate go to B in fee; the estate is
vested in A subject to the shifting or secondary use in fee in B. Again, if
the proviso be that C may revoke the use to A, and limit it to B, then A is
seised in fee, with a power in C of revocation and limitation of a new use.
These shifting uses must be confined within proper limits, so as not to
create a perpetuity. 4 Kent, Com. 291; Cornish on Uses, 91; Bac. Ab. Uses
and Trusts, K; Co. Litt. 327, a, note Worth on Wills, 419; 2 Bouv. Inst. n.
1890. Vide Use.
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