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Shifted vs Move - What's the difference?

shifted | move |

As verbs the difference between shifted and move

is that shifted is (shift) while move is to change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.

As a noun move is

the act of moving; a movement.

shifted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (shift)

  • shift

    English

    (wikipedia shift)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To change, swap.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter
  • , volume=100, issue=2, page=87, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= 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.}}
  • To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= 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.}}
  • 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

    move

    English

    Alternative forms

    * meve * (l) (obsolete) * (l)

    Verb

    (mov)
  • To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.
  • A ship moves rapidly.
    I was sitting on the sofa for a long time, I was too lazy to move .
  • * 1839 , Denison Olmsted, A Compendium of Astronomy Page 95
  • Secondly, When a body is once in motion it will continue to move forever, unless something stops it. When a ball is struck on the surface of the earth, the friction of the earth and the resistance of the air soon stop its motion.
  • To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act; as, to move in a matter.
  • to move in a matter
    Come on guys, let's move : there's work to do!
  • (senseid)To change residence; to remove, as from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place. See also move out and move in.
  • I decided to move to the country for a more peaceful life.
    They moved closer to work to cut down commuting time.
  • (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of the game.
  • The rook moved from a8 to a6.
    My opponent's counter was moving much quicker round the board than mine.
  • (ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir.
  • The waves moved the boat up and down.
    The horse moves a carriage.
  • (chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the rules of the game; as, to move a king.
  • She moved the queen closer to the centre of the board.
  • To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.
  • This song moves me to dance.
  • * Knolles
  • Minds desirous of revenge were not moved with gold.
  • * Dryden
  • No female arts his mind could move .
  • To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion, to excite, as an emotion.
  • That book really moved me.
  • * Bible, Matthew ix. 36
  • When he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them.
  • To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit, as a resolution to be adopted; as, to move to adjourn.
  • I move to repeal the rule regarding obligatory school uniform.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Let me but move one question to your daughter.
  • * Hayward
  • They are to be blamed alike who move and who decline war upon particular respects.
  • (obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a complaint).
  • (obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue); to make a proposal to.
  • * 1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book VII:
  • "Sir," seyde Sir Boys, "ye nede nat to meve me of such maters, for well ye wote I woll do what I may to please you."
  • (obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
  • (Shakespeare)

    Synonyms

    * actuate * affect * agitate * impel * incite * incline * induce * influence * instigate * offer * persuade * prompt * propose * rouse * stir * transfer * trouble

    Derived terms

    {{der3, move about , move along , move down , move house , move in , move into , move it , move on , move one's arse/move one's ass/move one's bum/move one's butt , move out , move over , move the deckchairs on the Titanic , move the goalposts , move the needle , move up , movable , movability , movableness , movably , movant , moveless , movelessly , movelessness , movement , movent , mover , movie , moving , movingly , movingness , remove}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of moving; a movement.
  • A slight move of the tiller, and the boat will go off course.
  • An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
  • He made another move towards becoming a naturalized citizen.
  • A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand combat, etc.
  • She always gets spontaneous applause for that one move .
    He can win a match with that one move .
  • The event of changing one's residence.
  • The move into my fiancé's house took two long days.
    They were pleased about their move to the country.
  • A change in strategy.
  • I am worried about our boss's move .
    It was a smart move to bring on a tall striker to play against the smaller defenders.
  • A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
  • * 2013 , Phil McNulty, "[http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23830980]", BBC Sport , 1 September 2013:
  • Robin van Persie squandered United's best chance late on but otherwise it was a relatively comfortable afternoon for Liverpool's new goalkeeper Simon Mignolet, who has yet to concede a Premier League goal since his £9m summer move from Sunderland.
  • (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules of the game.
  • The best move of the game was when he sacrificed his rook in order to gain better possession.
    It's your move ! Roll the dice!
    If you roll a six, you can make two moves .

    Synonyms

    * (act of moving) * (moving to another place) removal, relocation

    Derived terms

    * camera move * get a move on * make a move * on the move

    References

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