Shift

Shift generally means to change (position).

Shift may refer to:

  • Gear shift, to change gears in a car
  • Shift work, an employment practice
  • Shift (weapon), an improvised knife used as a weapon
  • Shift (clothing), a simple kind of undergarment
  • Shift (ice hockey), a group of players in ice hockey

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Famous quotes containing the word shift:

    “There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in travelling in a stage- coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position and be bruised in a new place.”
    —Washington Irving (1783–1859)

    “I will use the world and sift it,
    To a thousand humors shift it,
    As you spin a cherry.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Let us not be dainty of leave-taking,
    But shift away.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)