Word Type
Shift can be a noun or a verb.
shift used as a noun:
- a type of women's undergarment, a slip
"Just last week she bought a new shift at the market." - 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
"There was a shift in the political atmosphere." - the gear mechanism in a motor vehicle
"Does it come with a stick-shift?" - a button on a keyboard, chiefly for switching between upper and lower case
"If you press shift-P, the preview display will change." - a bit shift
- The infield shift.
"Teams often use the shift against this lefty."
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
shift used as a verb:
- To change, swap.
"His political stance shifted daily." - to move from one place to another; to redistribute.
"We'll have to shift these boxes to the downtown office." - to change position.
"She shifted slightly in her seat." - To change gears (in a car).
"I crested the hill and shifted into fifth." - to remove the first value from an array.
- to dispose of.
"How can I shift a grass stain?" - to hurry.
"If you shift, you might make the 2:19." - to engage in sexual petting.
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is shift?
- Noun usage: Just last week she bought a new shift at the market.
- Noun usage: We'll work three shifts a day till the job's done.
- Noun usage: There was a shift in the political atmosphere.
- Noun usage: Does it come with a stick-shift?
- Noun usage: If you press shift-P, the preview display will change.
- Noun usage: Teams often use the shift against this lefty.
- Verb usage: His political stance shifted daily.
- Verb usage: We'll have to shift these boxes to the downtown office.
- Verb usage: She shifted slightly in her seat.
- Verb usage: I crested the hill and shifted into fifth.
- Verb usage: How can I shift a grass stain?
- Verb usage: If you shift, you might make the 2:19.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of shift are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of shift, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).