Shifter vs Siren - What's the difference?
shifter | siren |
One who, or that which, shifts or changes.
(dated) One who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener.
(nautical) An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.
(engineering) An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.
(engineering, textiles) A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.
(cycling) A component used by the rider to control the gearing mechanisms and select the desired gear ratio, usually connected to the derailleur by a mechanical actuation cable.
A spanner with an adjustable jaw size.
(Webster 1913)
English agent nouns
(original sense ) (Greek mythology) One of a group of nymphs who lured mariners to their death on the rocks.
A device, either mechanical or electronic, that makes a piercingly loud sound as an alarm or signal, or the sound from such a device.
A musical instrument, one of the few aerophones in the percussion section of the symphony orchestra.
A dangerously seductive woman.
A common name for salamanders of Siren and Sirenidae.
A common name for mammals of Sirenia .
Relating to or like a siren.
As a noun shifter
is one who, or that which, shifts or changes.shifter
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Noun
(en noun)- 'Twas such a shifter that, if truth were known, Death was half glad when he had got him down. — Milton.