Shift vs Period - What's the difference?
shift | period |
To change, swap.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter
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, title= To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
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, title= To change position.
(obsolete) To change (one's clothes); also to change (someone's) underclothes.
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* Shakespeare
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
To practice indirect or evasive methods.
* Sir Walter Raleigh
(historical) a type of women's undergarment, a slip
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* 1919 ,
a change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time
an act of shifting; a slight movement or change
* Sir H. Wotton
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times
, 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
(computing) a bit shift
(baseball) The infield shift.
The act of sexual petting.
(archaic) A contrivance, device to try when other methods fail
* 1596 , Shakespeare, History of King John
(archaic) a trick, an artifice
* 1593 , Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
* Macaulay
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
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.
Appropriate for a given historical era.
* 2004 , Mark Singer, Somewhere in America , Houghton Mifflin, page 70:
Set in and designed to evoke a particular historical period, especially through the use of elaborate costumes and scenery.
(chiefly, North America) And nothing else; and nothing less; used for emphasis.
(obsolete, medicine) The length of time for a disease to run its course.
An end or conclusion; the final point of a process etc.
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* Milton
* Jeremy Taylor
* Shakespeare
A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.
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, title= (rhetoric) A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic whole.
* Ben Jonson
* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
The punctuation mark “. ” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
A length of time.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 14, author=Steven Morris, work=Guardian
, title= The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition of a wave or the rotation of a planet.
(obsolete) A specific moment during a given process; a point, a stage.
* 1720 , Alexander Pope, translating Homer, Iliad , Book IV (note 125):
Female menstruation.
A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc.
Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity.
(chemistry) A row in the periodic table of the elements.
(geology) A subdivision of an era, typically lasting from tens to hundreds of millions of years, see .
(genetics) A Drosophila gene which gene product is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm.
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(music) Two phrases (an antecedent]] and a [[consequent phrase, consequent phrase).
(math) One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed at regular intervals, as in numeration, in the extraction of roots, and in recurring decimals.
(obsolete) To come to a period; to conclude.
* Owen Felltham
To put an end to.
(of time)
As verbs the difference between shift and period
is that shift is to change, swap while period is to come to a period; to conclude.As nouns the difference between shift and period
is that shift is a type of women's undergarment, a slip while period is the length of time for a disease to run its course.As an adjective period is
appropriate for a given historical era.As an interjection period is
and nothing else; and nothing less; used for emphasis.shift
English
(wikipedia shift)Verb
(en verb)The British Longitude Act Reconsidered, passage=But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.}}
T time, passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.}}
- '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 […].
- As it were to ride day and night; andnot to have patience to shift me.
- Men in distress will look to themselves, and leave their companions to shift as well as they can.
- 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)- 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.
- Some wear black shifts and flesh-coloured stockings; some with curly hair, dyed yellow, are dressed like little girls in short muslin frocks.
- We'll work three shifts a day till the job's done.
- My going to Oxford was not merely for shift of air.
- There was a shift in the political atmosphere.
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- Does it come with a stick-shift ?
- If you press shift -P, the preview display will change.
- Teams often use the shift against this lefty.
- 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.
- 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
- Reduced to pitiable shifts .
- I'll find a thousand shifts to get away.
- Little souls on little shifts rely.
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 shiftperiod
English
Alternative forms
*Adjective
(-)- As the guests arrived — there were about a hundred, a majority in period attire — I began to feel out of place in my beige summer suit, white shirt, and red necktie. Then I got over it. I certainly didn't suffer from Confederate-uniform envy.
Interjection
(en interjection)- When I say "eat your dinner," it means "eat your dinner," period !
Synonyms
* (and nothing else) full stopNoun
(en noun)- All comes to one period , whether man make an end of himselfe, or whether he endure it.
- So spake the archangel Michael; then paused, / As at the world's great period .
- evils which shall never end till eternity hath a period
- This is the period of my ambition.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.}}
- Periods are beautiful when they are not too long.
- that such iron moulds as these shall have autority to knaw out the choicest periods of exquisitest books, and to commit such a treacherous fraud against the orphan remainders of worthiest men after death, the more sorrow will belong to that haples race of men, whose misfortune it is to have understanding.
Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave, passage=Philip Miles, defending, said: "This was a single instance, there was no allegation of continuing behaviour over a long period of time."}}
- The Death of Patroclus was the most eminent Period ; and consequently the most proper Time for such Games.
Antibodies to the period gene product of drosophila reveal diverse tissue distribution and rhythmic changes in the visual system, volume=1, issue=2, page=141, year=1988, date=1 April, journal=Neuron , passage=Polyclonal antibodies were prepared against the period gene product, which influences biological rhythms in D. melanogaster, by using small synthetic peptides from the per sequence as immunogens.}}
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Derived terms
* pseudoperiod, pseudoperiodicSynonyms
* * See alsoAntonyms
* (length of time of recurrence of a periodic phenomenon) frequencySee also
* (punctuation)Verb
(en verb)- For you may period upon this, that where there is the most pity for others, there is the greatest misery in the party pitied.
- (Shakespeare)