Adaptable vs Shifting - What's the difference?
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Capable of adapting or of being adapted.
* {{quote-book, author=Sabine Baring-Gould, title=, year=1901
, passage=Joan was adaptable , and easily fell in with the prevalent tone. She played her small jokes on each, and this readily dissolved restraint, and put all on terms of easy friendship.}}
A shift or change; a shifting movement.
* (Charles Lamb)
* 1978 , Jack Vance, The View from Chickweed's Window
As an adjective adaptable
is capable of adapting or of being adapted.As a verb shifting is
present participle of lang=en.As a noun shifting is
a shift or change; a shifting movement.adaptable
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(en adjective)References
* ----shifting
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(en noun)- I remember the last time I saw Macbeth played, the discrepancy I felt at the changes of garment which he varied, the shiftings and reshiftings, like a Romish priest at mass.
- Then everyone moved at the same time — slight shiftings of the hands and feet, furtive easings of position.