Shifter vs X - What's the difference?
shifter | x |
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
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type
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Roman numerals
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As a noun shifter
is one who, or that which, shifts or changes.As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.shifter
English
Noun
(en noun)- 'Twas such a shifter that, if truth were known, Death was half glad when he had got him down. — Milton.