Shift vs Exchange - What's the difference?

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In transitive terms the difference between shift and exchange

is that shift is to dispose of while exchange is to replace with, as a substitute.

shift

English

(wikipedia shift)

Verb

(en verb)

To change, swap.

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To move from one place to another; to redistribute.

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To change position.

(obsolete) To change (one's clothes); also to change (someone's) underclothes.

*, II.ii.2:

'Tis very good to wash his hands and face often, to shift his clothes, to have fair linen about him, to be decently and comely attired […].

* Shakespeare

As it were to ride day and night; andnot to have patience to shift me.

To change gears (in a car).

(typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.

(computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.

(computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.

(computing) To remove the first value from an array.

To dispose of.

To hurry.

(Ireland, vulgar, slang) To engage in sexual petting.

To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.

* L'Estrange

Men in distress will look to themselves, and leave their companions to shift as well as they can.

To practice indirect or evasive methods.

* Sir Walter Raleigh

All those schoolmen, though they were exceeding witty, yet better teach all their followers to shift , than to resolve by their distinctions.

Noun

(en noun)

(historical) a type of women's undergarment, a slip

Just last week she bought a new shift at the market.

No; without a gown, in a shift that was somewhat of the coarsest, and none of the cleanest, bedewed likewise with some odoriferous effluvia, the produce of the day's labour, with a pitchfork in her hand, Molly Seagrim approached.

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* 1919 ,

Some wear black shifts and flesh-coloured stockings; some with curly hair, dyed yellow, are dressed like little girls in short muslin frocks.

a change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time

We'll work three shifts a day till the job's done.

an act of shifting; a slight movement or change

* Sir H. Wotton

My going to Oxford was not merely for shift of air.

There was a shift in the political atmosphere.

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times citation

, passage=The generational shift Mr. Obama once embodied is, in fact, well under way, but it will not change Washington as quickly — or as harmoniously — as a lot of voters once hoped.}}

(US) the gear mechanism in a motor vehicle

Does it come with a stick-shift ?

If you press shift -P, the preview display will change.

(computing) a bit shift

(baseball) The infield shift.

Teams often use the shift against this lefty.

The act of sexual petting.

(archaic) A contrivance, device to try when other methods fail

* 1596 , Shakespeare, History of King John

If I get down, and do not break my limbs,

I'll find a thousand shifts to get away:

As good to die and go, as die and stay.

(archaic) a trick, an artifice

* 1593 , Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

And if the boy have not a woman's gift

To rain a shower of commanded tears,

An onion will do well for such a shift

* Macaulay

Reduced to pitiable shifts .

* Shakespeare

I'll find a thousand shifts to get away.

* Dryden

Little souls on little shifts rely.

In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.

(mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.

Derived terms

* blueshift * day shift * graveyard shift * make shift * night shift * preshift * shift break * shiftwork, shift work * split shift * swing shift * stickshift * redshift * (French kissing) get the shift

exchange

English

(wikipedia exchange)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) eschaunge, from (etyl) eschaunge, from (etyl) eschange (whence modern French ). Spelling later changed on the basis of ex- in English.

Noun

(en noun)

An act of exchanging or trading.

All in all, it was an even exchange .

an exchange of cattle for grain

A place for conducting trading.

The stock exchange is open for trading.

A telephone exchange.

(telephony, US only? ) The fourth through sixth digits of a ten-digit phone number (the first three before the introduction of area codes).

The 555 exchange is reserved for use by the phone company, which is why it's often used in films.

NPA-NXX-1234 is standard format, where NPA is the area code and NXX is the exchange .

A conversation.

After an exchange with the manager, we were no wiser.

* 2014 , Ian Black, " Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis", The Guardian , 27 November 2014:

“Why bother with the daily grind when you can go to Mosul, get paid $400 a month, get a wife – and live an Islamic way,” went an exchange between two men overheard by a fellow passenger in a taxi. Rumour has it that a woman whose husband died fighting with Isis now receives a generous widow’s pension from jihadi coffers.

(chess) The loss of one piece and associated capture of another

# The loss of a relatively minor piece (typically a bishop or knight) and associated capture of the more advantageous rook

(obsolete) The thing given or received in return; especially, a publication exchanged for another.

(Shakespeare)

Derived terms

* bet exchange * bill of exchange * exchange rate * foreign exchange * foreign exchange market * ion exchange * ion exchange chromatography * ion exchange resin * key exchange * link exchange * local exchange carrier * means of exchange * medium of exchange * private branch exchange * stock exchange * telephone exchange

Etymology 2

From (etyl) eschaungen, from (etyl) eschaungier, eschanger, from the (etyl) verb eschangier, ).

Verb

(exchang)

To trade or barter.

I'll gladly exchange my place for yours.

To replace with, as a substitute.

I'd like to exchange this shirt for one in a larger size.

Since his arrest, the mob boss has exchanged a mansion for a jail cell.

Derived terms

* exchange flesh * exchanger * exchange vows

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