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Shifting vs Replacement - What's the difference?

shifting | replacement |

As nouns the difference between shifting and replacement

is that shifting is a shift or change; a shifting movement while replacement is a person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute.

As a verb shifting

is .

shifting

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shift or change; a shifting movement.
  • * (Charles Lamb)
  • I remember the last time I saw Macbeth played, the discrepancy I felt at the changes of garment which he varied, the shiftings and reshiftings, like a Romish priest at mass.
  • * 1978 , Jack Vance, The View from Chickweed's Window
  • Then everyone moved at the same time — slight shiftings of the hands and feet, furtive easings of position.

    replacement

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2010 , date=December 28 , author=Kevin Darlin , title=West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Rovers lost keeper Robinson to a calf problem at half-time and his replacement Mark Bunn, making his Premier League debut, was immediately called into action - pushing away a vicious Peter Odemwingie drive at the near post.}}
  • The act of replacing something.
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * overreplacement * subreplacement
    See also
    * spare part