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What does shift mean?

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Noun
  1. (historical) A type of women's undergarment, a slip.
  2. A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
  3. An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
  4. (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
  5. Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).
  6. (computing) A bit shift.
  7. (baseball) The infield shift.
  8. (archaic) A contrivance, device to try when other methods fail.
  9. (archaic) A trick, an artifice.
  10. In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
  11. (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To change, swap.
  2. (transitive) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
  3. (intransitive) To change position.
  4. (obsolete, transitive) To change (one's clothes); also to change (someone's) underclothes.
  5. (intransitive) To change gears (in a car).
  6. (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.
  7. (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.
  8. (computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
  9. (computing) To remove the first value from an array.
  10. (transitive) To dispose of.
  11. (intransitive) To hurry.
  12. (obsolete) To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
  13. To practice indirect or evasive methods.
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