What does shifting mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. shift, shiftingadjective

    the act of moving from one place to another

    "his constant shifting disrupted the class"

  2. shiftingadjective

    continuously varying

    "taffeta with shifting colors"

  3. shifting, shiftyadjective

    changing position or direction

    "he drifted into the shifting crowd"; "their nervous shifting glances"; "shifty winds"

  4. shifting, unfirmadjective

    (of soil) unstable

    "shifting sands"; "unfirm earth"

Wiktionary

  1. shiftingnoun

    A shift; a shifting movement.

ChatGPT

  1. 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

  1. Shifting

    of Shift

  2. Shiftingadjective

    changing in place, position, or direction; varying; variable; fickle; as, shifting winds; shifting opinions or principles

  3. Shiftingadjective

    adapted or used for shifting anything

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of shifting in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of shifting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of shifting in a Sentence

  1. Nela Richardson:

    The question of staying versus leaving is shifting. For people who were afraid to leave their mortgage because they thought it was the best they're ever going to get, now there is another good mortgage around the corner.

  2. Thomas Merton:

    In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for finding himself. If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

  3. Oklahoma State:

    The college athletics landscape is shifting constantly, we do n’t address every anonymous rumor.

  4. Bryson DeChambeau:

    We looked through the book (The Golfing Machine) and worked out what would work where, it was complete experimentation. We finally figured out what worked really well for me and lucky enough that there was a special component called the zero shifting motion where I was able to swing on the same plane. We built the swing around that and built the clubs around that.

  5. Peter McWilliams:

    Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from won't power to will power.

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  • The English word "shifting" can be translated to German as "Verschiebung" or "Änderung," depending on the context. If you have a specific context in mind, please provide more details for a more accurate translation.German
  • மாற்றுவதால்Tamil

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