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Meanings of shift in English

Portuguese
falha
Catalan
falla
Wikidata

(Geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other.

falha
Wikidata

A woman's sleeveless undergarment.

Russian
смена

Segment of time in which a particular worker or group of workers are on duty or on call.

смена
Portuguese
transformação
Catalan
transformació
Spanish
cambio

A qualitative change.

transformação
Usage of shift in English
1
This shift constitutes a present challenge to the entire National Health Service.
Pubmed
2
The balance wheel turns; the tides change; the sands of occasion shift.
The Best Short Stories of 1921, and the Yearbook of the American...
3
There is a night shift, so several days a week, I'm free.
The new yorker
4
In recent years, however, Falls Church had undergone a dramatic ethnic shift.
Hostile intent
5
He said many countries were already taking steps to combat climate shift.
Reuters
6
The administration, however, has said no policy shift is on the way.
Reuters
7
Copenhagen offers one example of a healthy cultural shift within a city.
The Guardian
8
They'll probably just think we're first-shift workers on our way to work.
Dayworld Rebel
9
This shift is creating new global opportunities for our company, he said.
Reuters
10
Forrester and Dooley saw the point; they all agreed to shift elsewhere.
The genesis secret
11
That population shift in turn changed the political balance of the nation.
Wired
12
Tomorrow morning we'll clear the doorway and try to shift the doors.
Land of marvels
13
No more dramatic shift has been seen in Europe's recent political landscape.
The Irish Times
14
They saw no benefit in any shift from conflict toward reasonable debate.
Existence
15
Future research should investigate other modifiable mediators linking night-shift work and MetS.
Pubmed
16
Beijing's current position is not likely to shift anytime soon, analysts say.
Reuters