Crossword-Solution: SHIFT 5 letters, 134 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Shift	v. t.	To divide; to distribute; to apportion.
Shift	v. t.	To change the place of; to move or remove from one place to another; as, to shift a burden from one shoulder to another; to shift the blame.
Shift	v. t.	To change the position of; to alter the bearings of; to turn; as, to shift the helm or sails.
Shift	v. t.	To exchange for another of the same class; to remove and to put some similar thing in its place; to change; as, to shift the clothes; to shift the scenes.
Shift	v. t.	To change the clothing of; -- used reflexively.
Shift	v. t.	To put off or out of the way by some expedient.
Shift	v. t.	The act of shifting.
Shift	v. t.	The act of putting one thing in the place of another, or of changing the place of a thing; change; substitution.
Shift	v. t.	Something frequently shifted; especially, a woman's under-garment; a chemise.
Shift	v. t.	The change of one set of workmen for another; hence, a spell, or turn, of work; also, a set of workmen who work in turn with other sets; as, a night shift.
Shift	v. t.	In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
Shift	v. t.	A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
Shift	v. t.	A change of the position of the hand on the finger board, in playing the violin.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
SHIFT	anagram	FISHT

We have 134 clues for the answer “SHIFT”

Clue	Answers
A spell of work.	1 answer
Backfield maneuver	1 answer
Bob Marley "Night ___"	1 answer
Capital letter key	1 answer
Capital-letter key	1 answer
Change gear in a vehicle	1 answer
Change loose dress	1 answer
Clutch performance?	1 answer
Dress of a sort.	1 answer
Factory work period	1 answer
Go from P to R, say	1 answer
Go from first to second	1 answer
Go from first to second, perhaps	1 answer
Go from first to second, say	1 answer
Go from second to third, say	1 answer
Go though the gears	1 answer
Graveyard, for one	1 answer
Key for capitalizing	1 answer
Key for capitals	1 answer
Key for dollars and pounds	1 answer
Key held while "shouting"	1 answer
Key needed to type "*&#@$!"	1 answer
Key over Control	1 answer
Key that turns 8 into *	1 answer
Key under Caps Lock	1 answer
Leave first or second, say	1 answer
Lobster trick, e.g.	1 answer
Move; dress	1 answer
New direction	1 answer
One might be from 9-5	1 answer
Paradigm movement	1 answer
Plant period	1 answer
Starving artist might do graveyard one	1 answer
Stint at the factory	1 answer
Swing, for one	1 answer
Switch gears	1 answer
Tab neighbor	1 answer
To change gears in a car	1 answer
To change gears in car	1 answer
Work hours	1 answer
Work stretch	1 answer
Z's neighbor	1 answer
move and exchange for another	1 answer
move from one place to another r over a small distance	1 answer
move from one setting or context to another	1 answer
Women's dress style	2 answers
PC key with an arrow	2 answers
Work time	2 answers
Nine to five, e.g.	2 answers
Slight movement.	2 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

TEEAR

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with SHIFT (5)

Presently a measured thudding and a vibration that made everything about us quiver and the vessels in the pantry ring and shift, began and continued.

The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992

The design of the ASR-33 assigned each character key a basic pattern that could be modified by flipping bits if the SHIFT or the CTRL key was pressed.

The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992

BATTIN urged the necessity of shifting focus from assessing, measuring, and setting standards for the permanence of the medium to the concept of managing continuing access to information stored on a variety of media and requiring a variety of ever-changing hardware and software for access--a fundamental shift for the library profession.

LOC Workshop on Electronic Texts Library of Congress 1993

Whilst she did not see him, there still lingered in her heart of hearts a vague, undefined hope that “something” would occur, something big, enormous, epoch-making, which would shift from her young, weak shoulders this terrible burden of responsibility, of having to choose between two such cruel alternatives.

The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993

But because the wanted target is moving, while the clutter is not, a filtering system based on the Doppler Shift principle (even when the echo is only one or two Hertz different) will lock on to it and track it as long as it stays in motion.

The Dawn of Amateur Radio in the U.K. and Greece Norman F. Joly 2008

Quotes with SHIFT (3)

We looked at each other for a minute, not saying anything, but I could feel the air between us shift. It became thick, sultry, and tangible — like when the air changes right before a storm. I could feel its power envelop me as it brushed across my skin. Even though I couldn’t see it, I knew a storm was coming.

Colleen Houck Tiger's Curse

The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death. There is a kind of gestalt-shift between the two positions which makes it hard to change, and hard to raise questions on the matter at all without becoming embattled.

Mary Midgley Animals and Why They Matter

If we are ever going to see a paradigm shift, we have to be clear about how we want the present paradigm to shift. We must be clear that veganism is the unequivocal baseline of anything that deserves to be called an “animal rights” movement. If “animal rights” means anything, it means that we cannot morally justify any animal exploitation; we cannot justify creating animals as human resources, however “humane” that treatment may be. We must stop thinking that people will find…

Gary L. Francione

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Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Rock & Roll, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 68 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).