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- Shifting - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Shift
- Shifting - a. - Changing in place, position, or direction; varying; variable; fickle; as, shifting winds; shifting opinions or principles.
- Shifting - a. - Adapted or used for shifting anything.
- Shiftingly - adv. - In a shifting manner.
- Shifting - a. - Changing in place, position, or direction; varying; variable; fickle; as, shifting winds; shifting opinions or principles.
- Dodge - v. t. - To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
- Switch - n. - A mechanical device for shifting an electric current to another circuit.
- Tack - v. i. - To change the direction of a vessel by shifting the position of the helm and sails; also (as said of a vessel), to have her direction changed through the shifting of the helm and sails. See Tack, v. t., 4.
- Shifting - a. - Adapted or used for shifting anything.
- Shifter - n. - An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.
- Tack - v. t. - To change the direction of (a vessel) when sailing closehauled, by putting the helm alee and shifting the tacks and sails so that she will proceed to windward nearly at right angles to her former course.
- Go-by - n. - A passing without notice; intentional neglect; thrusting away; a shifting off; adieu; as, to give a proposal the go-by.
- Shiftingly - adv. - In a shifting manner.
- Shunt - v. t. - The shifting of the studs on a projectile from the deep to the shallow sides of the grooves in its discharge from a shunt gun.
- Modulation - n. - A change of key, whether transient, or until the music becomes established in the new key; a shifting of the tonality of a piece, so that the harmonies all center upon a new keynote or tonic; the art of transition out of the original key into one nearly related, and so on, it may be, by successive changes, into a key quite remote. There are also sudden and unprepared modulations.
- Shifter - n. - An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.
- Variable - n. - A shifting wind, or one that varies in force.
- Jibe - v. i. - To change a ship's course so as to cause a shifting of the boom. See Jibe, v. t., and Gybe.