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Meanings of shifter in inglês

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A wrench with a smooth adjustable jaw to grip different sizes of nuts and bolts.

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      A mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears.

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            tramoista

            A stagehand responsible for moving scenery.

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                  Synonyms
                  Examples for "sceneshifter"
                  Examples for "sceneshifter"
                  1
                  A sceneshifter had even stopped Fauchery's hat just when the devilish thing was going to bound onto the stage in the middle of the struggle.
                  Four Short Stories By Emile Zola
                  2
                  In view of the sceneshifters' exaggerated mirth, Fauchery grew white.
                  Four Short Stories By Emile Zola
                  3
                  On the contrary, he was greatly interested and kept pausing in order to look at the sceneshifters' maneuvers.
                  Four Short Stories By Emile Zola
                  4
                  On the stage above Bordenave was wild with the sceneshifters, who seemed never to have done changing scenes.
                  Four Short Stories By Emile Zola
                  5
                  Actors and supers and chorus made haste to get back to their dressing rooms while the sceneshifters rapidly changed the scenery.
                  Four Short Stories By Emile Zola
                  Usage of shifter in inglês
                  1
                  In other cases, the shifter functions more like a video game joystick.
                  The Verge
                  2
                  There's a shifter called Bettina and a Were called Hondo with him.
                  All together dead
                  3
                  If she hadn't been a shifter, she wouldn't have heard so much.
                  Dead to the world
                  4
                  Jason didn't know it, but she was a shape-shifter of some kind.
                  Dead to the world
                  5
                  But Jurt is a shape shifter and minor sorcerer from the Courts.
                  The Great Book of Amber
                  6
                  Dukat turned to go, but his thoughts quickly turned to the shape-shifter.
                  Star trek: terok nor: dawn of the eagles
                  7
                  Sam isn't the only shape-shifter who's been shot in Bon Temps lately.
                  Dead as a doornail
                  8
                  It smelled of the grasses the shape-shifter wished him to blend into.
                  Ilse Witch
                  9
                  Because she was a shifter, she'd beat me in a fair fight.
                  Club dead
                  10
                  Quinn is like a rock star in the shifter world, you know.
                  All together dead
                  11
                  There had been nothing to connect that death with the shape-shifter killings.
                  Cerulean Sins
                  12
                  We sat staring at the shifter, and she blanched at our silence.
                  Club dead
                  13
                  She reply, 'As scene-shifter and prompter, M'sieu' Doltaire, you have a gift.
                  The Seats of the Mighty, Volume 3
                  14
                  Dean hasn't been the same since he saw me kill that shape-shifter.
                  John Winchester’s Journal
                  15
                  He's also a shape-shifter, so he can change into any animal.
                  Dead as a doornail
                  16
                  The car was under recall for problems with the gear shifter.
                  The Irish Times
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                  Translations for shifter
                  Shifter through the time
                  Shifter across language varieties
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