Shifting is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SHIFTING in dictionary:

VERB:
• move or cause to move from one place to another, especially over a small distance
• change the emphasis, direction, or focus of
• change in emphasis, direction, or focus
• move quickly
• move from a place or rouse oneself from a state of inactivity
• move (data) to the right or left in a register
• remove (a stain)
• sell (something)
• eat or drink (something) hastily or in large amounts.
• change gear in a vehicle
• be evasive or indirect
• change the position of one's body, especially because one is nervous or uncomfortable
NOUN:
• the act of shifting
• a slight change in position, direction, or tendency
• the displacement of spectral lines.
• a key on a typewriter or computer keyboard used to switch between two sets of characters or functions, principally between lower- and upper-case letters.
• the gear lever or gear-changing mechanism in a vehicle.
• the positioning of successive rows of bricks so that their ends do not coincide.
• a movement of the digits of a word in a register one or more places to left or right, equivalent to multiplying or dividing the corresponding number by a power of whatever number is the base.
• a change of position by two or more players before the ball is put into play.
• each of two or more recurring periods in which different groups of workers do the same jobs in relay
• the group of people who work during a particular shift
• a long, loose-fitting undergarment.
• an ingenious or devious device or stratagem
• a woman's straight unwaisted dress.
ADJECTIVE:
• Changing in place, position, or direction; varying; variable; fickle; as, shifting winds; shifting opinions or principles.
• Adapted or used for shifting anything.
• continuously varying
• changing position or direction
• (of soil) unstable
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to move from one position to another
• the act of moving from one place to another

Words related to SHIFTING

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Words that contain SHIFTING

shiftings16 unshifting17 upshifting19 downshifting23 rankshifting23 timeshifting21 downshiftings24 shapeshifting25 shapeshiftings26

How to use SHIFTING in a sentence

• Then he sprang into the turnpike and the band trotted down it, under flying black clouds and shifting bands of brilliant moonlight.
• It was no unusual thing, however, for the LUCY BELLE to hang up indefinitely on some one of the numerous shifting sand bars.
• He even found strength in himself, despite his situation, to admire the gleaming expanse of Andiatarocte with its shifting colors, and the far cliffs lofty and dim.
• When they ceased to be a factor in his own safety, they could shift for themselves, even as he, Lapierre, was shifting for himself.
• Shifting the coal to her bunkers had to be done after the ships had separated.
• Pain had cast them, and no shifting of material light would wipe them out.
• He forgot the mission that urged him to the temple and, permitting the shifting, restless crowd to surround him, he lingered, thinking.
• All the afternoon, Enoch, riding under the burning sun, through the ever shifting miracles of color, rested in his happy dream.
• A shifting of the pose may be a most effective gesture.
• He took in the room with deliberate insolence while the old woman stood awkwardly watching him, shifting her position uneasily from one foot to the other.
• New Thought places a shifting emphasis upon immortality.
• At last, a quarter of a mile away, they halted in a gorgeous shifting group.
• He kept his view shifting from screen to screen and out to the sides of the car.
• With the cut-and-try shifting of command of the Union Army of the Potomac over and Grant in command, there was activity all over northern Virginia.
• As the battlefield kept shifting about, and the fortunes of the fight kept changing, he shaped his course accordingly.
• To do them justice in this new language I have found it necessary to present them with a new selection of detail and with an occasional shifting of emphasis.
• The natives formed a shifting, motley crowd in the courtyard.
• It is always shifting and moving, and it is impossible for the inferior man to adjust his emotions and his life rapidly to the changes.
• Lacking it, he has been forced to build either on the shifting sands of his own fancy, or on the wrecks and sediment of the past.
• Even this meagre force was an inconstant and diminishing quantity, shifting, uncertain, and always threatening dissolution.
• It is this world of shifting lights, of queer, elusive, delightful absurdities, that La Fontaine has made the scene of the greater number of his stories.
• The shadow darted like an arrow over the shifting logs, slanting upstream and towards the shore.
• The Forgotten had been entertained with vivid and shifting pictures of the great capital in which he had passed his boyhood.
• The lamp on the closed machine looked ghostly, the room filled with shifting shadows.
• The clairvoyant sees the human aura as composed of all the colors of the spectrum, the combination shifting with the changing mental and emotional states of the person.
• This difference, however slight, is sufficient to show that some shifting of the ground on which they were accumulated must have taken place between the two series of deposits.
• There was a shifting in the seats out in the half-lighted interior before them, but there came no sound of applause or comment.

Similar words containing SHIFT without suffix ing

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