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▸ 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:  (transitive, intransitive, 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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