What does shifting mean?
Definitions for shifting
shift·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
shift, shiftingadjective
the act of moving from one place to another
"his constant shifting disrupted the class"
shiftingadjective
continuously varying
"taffeta with shifting colors"
shifting, shiftyadjective
changing position or direction
"he drifted into the shifting crowd"; "their nervous shifting glances"; "shifty winds"
shifting, unfirmadjective
(of soil) unstable
"shifting sands"; "unfirm earth"
Wiktionary
shiftingnoun
A shift; a shifting movement.
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shifting
Shifting, in a broad sense, refers to the act of moving or changing position, direction, place, or focus from one point to another. This term can be used in various contexts, including physics, mathematics, engineering, computing, sociology, and psychology, with specific meanings in each field. Shifting could also imply a change in perspective, response, or strategy.
Webster Dictionary
Shifting
of Shift
Shiftingadjective
changing in place, position, or direction; varying; variable; fickle; as, shifting winds; shifting opinions or principles
Shiftingadjective
adapted or used for shifting anything
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of shifting in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of shifting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of shifting in a Sentence
We are concerned when some country like Australia...rather than informing us and working with us, they took unilateral action and pushed back the boat, talk to us, call our law enforcement on what to do with this, rather than just shifting the burden, shifting the responsibility back to Indonesia.
Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from won't power to will power.
...One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
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