Qu'est-ce qu'un shift?
Qu'est-ce qu'un shift?
- To exchange (one thing) for another of the same class: shifted assignments among the students.
- To move or transfer from one place or position to another.
- To alter (position or place).
- To change (gears), as in an automobile.
- Linguistics To alter phonetically as part of a systematic historical change.
- To change position, direction, place, or form.
- To provide for one's own needs; get along: "See me safe up: for my coming down, I can shift for myself” ( Thomas More).
- To get along by tricky or evasive means.
- To change gears, as when driving an automobile.
- Linguistics To be altered as part of a systematic historical change. Used of speech sounds.
- To use a shift key.
- A change from one person or configuration to another; a substitution.
- A group of workers that relieve another on a regular schedule.
- The working period of such a group: worked the night shift.
- A means to an end; an expedient.
- A stratagem; a trick.
- A change in direction: a shift in the wind.
- A change in attitude, judgment, or emphasis.
- A change in position, as:
- Music A change of the hand position in playing the violin or a similar instrument.
- Football A rearrangement of players from one formation to another just prior to the snap of the ball.
- Baseball A rearrangement of one or more fielders for improved defense against a particular hitter.
- Geology See fault.
- Computer Science Movement of characters in a register to the left or right, as of the bits in a byte.
- An act or instance of using a shift key.