shifting

[shift]

The word shifting describes something that is taking a new direction either physically or in thought. If you’ve recently decided that the earth may be round, you are shifting from a flat Earth viewpoint to a round Earth one.

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Changing in place, position, or direction; varying; variable; fickle; as, shifting winds; shifting opinions or principles.

Noun
the act of moving from one place to another; "his constant shifting disrupted the class"

Adjective S.
(of soil) unstable; "shifting sands"; "unfirm earth"

Adjective S.
continuously moving or changing from position or direction; "he drifted into the shifting crowd"; "their nervous shifting glances"

Adjective S.
continuously varying; "taffeta with shifting colors"


p. pr. & vb. n.
of Shift

a.
Changing in place, position, or direction; varying; variable; fickle; as, shifting winds; shifting opinions or principles.

a.
Adapted or used for shifting anything.


Shifting

Shift"ing, a. 1. Changing in place, position, or direction; varying; variable; fickle; as, shifting winds; shifting opinions or principles. 2. Adapted or used for shifting anything. 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.

Changing in place, position, or direction; varying; variable; fickle; as, shifting winds; shifting opinions or principles.

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Usage Examples

The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals.

It's really interesting with art-movies too, but art especially - to see how your attitude toward artists and works and your level of appreciation of them is always shifting and changing over the years.

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and associated health care costs to strengthening and diversifying the economy by shifting to renewable energy, among other measures.

Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change.

The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.

I'm 33 now and I seem to have hit a fitness plane. Shifting the wobbly bits isn't as easy as it used to be.

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Other Usage Examples

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

I do see women voters shifting to the Republican Party and doing so significantly. And the issue that's doing this is the fear the federal government will prevail in making the Affordable Health Care Act permanent law and how that will hurt small businesses.

White House operatives went to great lengths to show Obama shifting focus from wars abroad to domestic issues at home.

What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Conserving energy and thus saving money, reducing consumption of unnecessary products and packaging and shifting to a clean-energy economy would likely hurt the bottom line of polluting industries, but would undoubtedly have positive effects for most of us.

I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren't amending they're shifting.

A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.

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