Usually means: Moved from original position or place.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. shifted: Merriam-Webster
  2. shifted: Collins English Dictionary
  3. shifted: Vocabulary.com
  4. Shifted, shifted: Wordnik
  5. shifted: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. shifted: Wiktionary
  7. shifted: Dictionary.com
  8. shifted: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Shifted: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Shifted: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. shifted: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. shifted: FreeDictionary.org
  13. shifted: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. shifted: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shifted: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shifted: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shifted: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. shifted: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. shifted: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (shift)

noun:  A movement to do something, a beginning.
noun:  An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
noun:  (obsolete) A share, a portion assigned on division.
noun:  (historical) A type of women's undergarment of dress length worn under dresses or skirts, a slip or chemise.
noun:  A simple straight-hanging, loose-fitting dress.
noun:  A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
noun:  (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
noun:  (computing) A control code or character used to change between different character sets.
noun:  (computing) An instance of the use of such a code or character.
noun:  (computing) A bit shift.
noun:  (baseball) An infield shift.
noun:  (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of kissing passionately.
noun:  (archaic) A contrivance, a device to try when other methods fail.
noun:  (archaic) A trick, an artifice.
noun:  (construction) The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
noun:  (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
noun:  (genetics) A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
noun:  (music) In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.
noun:  A period of time in which one's consciousness resides in another reality, usually achieved through meditation or other means.
noun:  (British slang) be done; ruined
verb:  (transitive, sometimes figurative) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
verb:  (ambitransitive, figurative) To change in form or character; switch.
verb:  (intransitive, sometimes reflexive and figurative) To change position; to move.
verb:  (intransitive, India) To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To change (clothes, especially underwear).
verb:  (obsolete, transitive, reflexive) To change (someone's) clothes; sometimes specifically, to change underwear.
verb:  (intransitive) To change gears (in a car).
verb:  (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.
verb:  (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To remove the first value from an array.
verb:  (transitive) To dispose of.
verb:  (intransitive) To hurry; to move quickly.
verb:  (Ireland, vulgar, slang) To engage in sexual petting.
verb:  (archaic) To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
verb:  To practice indirect or evasive methods.
verb:  (music) In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut.
verb:  To change the reality one's consciousness resides in through meditation or other means.
verb:  (Nigeria, slang) To steal or kidnap.
noun:  (computing) A modifier key whose main function is shifting between two or more functions of any of certain other keys (usually by pressing Shift and the other button simultaneously).
noun:  Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”). [(computing) A modifier key whose main function is shifting between two or more functions of any of certain other keys (usually by pressing Shift and the other button simultaneously).]
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