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Shifts vs Shifter - What's the difference?

shifts | shifter |

As nouns the difference between shifts and shifter

is that shifts is while shifter is one who, or that which, shifts or changes.

As a verb shifts

is (shift).

shifts

English

Noun

(head)
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (shift)
  • shifter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who, or that which, shifts or changes.
  • (dated) One who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener.
  • 'Twas such a shifter that, if truth were known, Death was half glad when he had got him down. — Milton.
  • (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