Shift

Definition: Shift

Shift

Noun

1. An event in which something is displaced without rotation.

2. A qualitative change.

3. The time period during which you are at work.

4. The act of changing one thing or position for another; "his switch on abortion cost him the election".

5. The act of moving from one place to another; "his constant shifting disrupted the class".

6. (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other; "they built it right over a geological fault".

7. A group of workers who work for a specific period of time.

8. A woman's sleeveless undergarment.

9. A loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist.

Verb

1. Make a shift in or exchange of; "First Joe led; then we switched".

2. Change place or direction; "Shift one's position".

3. Move around; "transfer the packet from his trouser pockets to a pocket in his jacket".

4. Move very slightly; "He shifted in his seat".

5. Move from one setting or context to another; "shift the emphasis"; "shift one's attention".

6. Change in quality; "His tone shifted".

7. Move and exchange for another; "shift the date for our class reunion".

8. Move sideways or in an unsteady way, as of a ship or a vehicle out of control.

9. Move abruptly.

10. : lay aside, abandon, or leave for another; "switch to a different brand of beer"; "She switched psychiatrists"; "The car changed lanes".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "shift" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Computing

Building & Civil Engineering

Finance

Labor

Language

Law

Mechanical Engineering

Metallurgy

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SHIFT

SHIFT

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Shift

Change

Verb: change, alter, vary, wax and wane; modulate, diversify, qualify, tamper with; turn, shift, veer, tack, chop, shuffle, swerve, warp, deviate, turn aside, evert, intervert; pass to, take a turn, turn the corner, resume.

Changeableness

Verb: fluctuate, vary, waver, flounder, flicker, flitter, flit, flutter, shift, shuffle, shake, totter, tremble, vacillate, wamble, turn and turn about, ring the changes; sway to and fro, shift to and fro; change and change about; waffle, blow with the wind (irresolute); oscillate; vibrate between, two extremes, oscillate between, two extremes; alternate; have as man phases as the moon.

Clothing

Body clothes; linen; hickory shirt; shirt, sark, smock, shift, chemise; night gown, negligee, dressing gown, night shirt; bedgown, sac de nuit.

Continuance in action

Verb: be converted into; become, get, wax; come to, turn to, turn into, evolve into, develop into; turn out, lapse, shift; run into, fall into, pass into, slide into, glide into, grow into, ripen into, open into, resolve itself into, settle into, merge into, emerge as; melt, grow, come round to, mature, mellow; assume the form of, assume the shape of, assume the state of, assume the nature of, assume the character of; illapse; begin a new phase, assume a new phase, undergo a change.

Cunning

Art, artifice; device, machination; plot; (plan); maneuver, stratagem, dodge, sidestep, artful dodge, wile; trick, trickery; (deception); ruse, ruse de guerre; finesse, side blow, thin end of the wedge, shift, go by, subterfuge, evasion; white lie; (untruth); juggle, tour de force; tricks of the trade, tricks upon travelers; espieglerie; net, trap.

Deviation

Intervert; deflect; divert, divert from its course; put on a new scent, shift, shunt, draw aside, crook, warp.

Dissuasion

Pretense; (untruth); put off, dust thrown in the eyes; blind; moonshine; mere pretext, shallow pretext; lame excuse, lame apology; tub to a whale; false plea, sour grapes; makeshift, shift, white lie; special pleading; (sophistry); soft sawder; (flattery).

Motion

Verb: be in motion; Adjective: move, go, hie, gang, budge, stir, pass, flit; hover about, hover round, hover about; shift, slide, glide; roll, roll on; flow, stream, run, drift, sweep along; wander; (deviate); walk; change one's place, shift one's place, change one's quarters, shift one's quarters; dodge; keep going, keep moving;

Plan

Contrivance, invention, expedient, receipt, nostrum, artifice, device; pipelaying; stratagem; (cunning); trick; (deception); alternative, loophole; shift;contrivance, invention, expedient, receipt, nostrum, artifice, device; pipelaying; stratagem; (cunning); trick; (deception); alternative, loophole; shift; (substitute); last shift; (necessity).

Substitution

Subs ersatz, makeshift, temporary expedient, replacement, succedaneum; shift, pis aller, stopgap, jury rigging, jury mast, locum tenens, warming pan, dummy, scapegoat; double; changeling; quid pro quo, alternative.

Transference

Verb: transfer, transmit, transport, transplace, transplant, translocate; convey, carry, bear, fetch and carry; carry over, ferry over; hand pass, forward; shift; conduct, convoy, bring, fetch, reach; tote; port, import, export.

Untruth

Pretense, pretext; false plea; subterfuge, evasion, shift, shuffle, make-believe; sham; (deception).

Crosswords: Shift

I know, but I felt like taking a shift. (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

Leon, somewhere in Libya right now, a janitor's working the night shift at Libyan Intelligence headquarters (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

Charlie, that's the stick shift! (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro)

Shift Into Turbo (Power Rangers Turbo; writing credit: Brett Born; Shell Danielson)

Do you think you could shift the gears (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay)

Keep hittin, and shift blocks for that cali dough (Can't Deny It; performing artist: Fabolous)

Push the shift to overdrive (To the Moon and Back; performing artist: Savage Garden)

Shift your arm then you pull it back (Walk Like An Egyptian; performing artist: The Bangles)

Night Shift (1956)

Swing Shift Cinderella (1945)

Yankee Doodle Swing Shift (1942)

Night Shift (1941)

Double Shift (1998)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Fourth Shift Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Carbon-13 Nmr Shift Assignment of Amines and Alkaloids (reference)

• Reversing Language Shift in the Far North: Linguistic Revitalization in Northern Scandinavia & Finland (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis Studia Uralica Upsaliensia, 31) (reference)

• Handedness and Brain Asymmetry: The Right Shift Theory (reference)

• My Last Shift Betwixt Us & Death: The Ephraim Blaine Letterbook, 1777-1778 (reference)

• Solvability Theory of Boundary Value Problems and Singular Integral Equations with Shift (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Shift (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Swing Shift (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Night Shift (reference)

• Paradigm Shift (reference)

• Swing Shift (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Pentax SMCP Shift 28mm f/3.5 Lens with Soft Case (reference)

• HALF LIFE BLUE SHIFT B43 WIN CD (reference)

• Half-Life: Blue Shift (reference)

• CH Exl500 Racing Set Wheel and Pedals Combo 4-Buttons/Stick Shift (reference)

• Tlp-550 XGA 1100 Ansi Lumens LCD Projector 7.1lbs with Lens Shift (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Satellite Operations Control Center (SOCC) shift supervisor Jim Nichols at the TIROS-N Spacecraft Engineer's Console. Credit: NOAA in Space.

B-52 Night Shift.

Night shift in a glass factory. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Jeff's last shift. Capture of Jeff. Davis. May 10th 1865, at Irwinsville, Ga. Credit: Library of Congress.

The upstream face of Boulder Dam during the night shift. Credit: Library of Congress.

A Ukrainian girl prepares a meal for her family on a make shift stove in a concentration camp at Salzburg, Austria / Signal Corps photo. Credit: Library of Congress.

Four o'clock shift, Ford Motor Company, Detroit, Mich. Credit: Library of Congress.

Workers in canning plant during change of shift. Many of these are migratory. Polk County, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress.

Miners changing shift, Birmingham, Alabama. Credit: Library of Congress.

Jeff's last shift. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

All which seems no more than that duty, which God and nature has laid on man, as well as other creatures, to preserve their offspring, till they can be able to shift for themselves, and will scarce amount to an instance or proof of parents regal authority. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Let every hour be in its place Firm fixed, nor loosely shift, And well enjoy the vacant space, As though a birthday gift

Mae watched them get into the great truck, watched it lumber off in low gear, and heard the shift up the whining gears to cruising ratio

I made a shift to keep the key in a pocket of my own, fearing Glumdalclitch might lose it.

They make shift to live merely by conformity, practically as their fathers did, and are in no sense the progenitors of a noble race of men.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The white blood cell count tends to be raised with a marked left shift. (references)

With the shift in heroin abuse patterns comes an even more diverse group of users. (references)

The number and severity of workplace accidents also tend to increase during the night shift. (references)

Business

A shift of government budget policy in an expansive direction has reinforced this trend. (references)

However, as new investments come on line, U.S. imports will shift from one area to another. (references)

There has been a shift towards larger HDB apartments mainly due to higher living standards and rising expectations. (references)

Children

Italy

Schooling is free and compulsory for children from age 7 to age 18; those unable (or unwilling) to follow the academic curriculum are allowed to shift to vocational training at age 15. This reform was intended to reverse the middle and secondary school dropout rate, which historically has been high. (references)

Civil Liberties

Sri Lanka

Fighting between Government and the LTTE has displaced hundreds of thousands of persons, with many displaced multiple times as front lines shift. (references)

Economic History

Switzerland

In recent years, Switzerland has seen a gradual shift in the party landscape. (references)

Human Rights

Mexico

Control is difficult with 60 guards available on each shift to monitor more than 3,000 prisoners and up to 1,500 visitors daily. (references)

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Resources remain limited, but shift adjustments and reorganization of guard posts reportedly resulted in a heightened sense of security at the prison during the year. (references)

Indigenous People

New Zealand

Maori officials continued to express concern over the Government's announcement in November 2000 that it would shift its Closing the Gaps strategy to address socioeconomic disparities rather than race-based disparities. (references)

Political Economy

Ecuador

That, in turn, is needed to prevent a shift back to state intervention in the economy that could worsen the business climate. (references)

NETHERLANDS

The new tax regime entails a shift from direct to indirect taxes, a broadening of the tax base, and a reduction of the tax rate on labor. (references)

BANGLADESH

Overall, tariff reform in Bangladesh is slow, but Bangladesh is continuing its efforts to shift from a tariff-based revenue system to an income-based one. (references)

Trade

Syria

This will force importers of meat, milk powder and butter shift to non-EU sources for these commodities. (references)

Saudi Arabia

Moreover, there has been a steady and growing shift to retail lending, which provided comparatively higher margins and lower risk factors. (references)

Kazakhstan

As of mid-2001, there has not been a noticeable shift of the banking community to Astana and the National Bank has no plans to move to the new capital. (references)

Travel

Kenya

The precise areas tend to shift with time. (references)

Bolivia

There is presently a move afoot both in the public and private sector to shift to the "hora continua", in which the lunch break is reduced to one hour, bringing the end of the day correspondingly earlier. (references)

Women

Bosnia and Herzegovina

A woman with underage children may not be required to perform shift work. (references)

Worker Rights

Portugal

Government agencies have noted a continued gradual shift from child labor in industries to child labor in the home. (references)

Luxembourg

The law requires rest breaks for shift workers and limits all workers to a maximum of 10 hours per day including overtime. (references)

Costa Rica

Nonagricultural workers receive an overtime premium of 50 percent of regular wages for work in excess of the daily work shift. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "shift": automatic shift ♦ be brought to one's last shift ♦ be driven to one's last shift ♦ be on the night shift ♦ butterfly shift ♦ colorimetric shift ♦ day shift ♦ doppler frequency shift ♦ Doppler shift ♦ evening shift ♦ figure shift ♦ frequency shift ♦ frequency Shift Keying ♦ frequency shift modulation ♦ gel shift assay ♦ graveyard shift ♦ Half shift ♦ last shift ♦ left to shift for oneself ♦ lobster shift ♦ logical shift ♦ logical shift left ♦ logical shift right ♦ make a shift ♦ make shift ♦ midnight shift ♦ night shift ♦ null shift ♦ permanent threshold shift ♦ phase shift ♦ phase shift keying ♦ population shift ♦ red shift ♦ shift about ♦ shift algorithm ♦ shift away ♦ shift blame ♦ shift blame on ♦ shift down ♦ shift for ♦ shift for oneself ♦ shift gear ♦ shift gears ♦ shift In ♦ shift into high ♦ shift key ♦ shift left (or right) logical ♦ shift left logical ♦ shift lever ♦ shift of crops ♦ shift one's ground ♦ shift one's place ♦ shift one's quarters ♦ shift oneself ♦ shift Out ♦ shift pedal ♦ shift position ♦ shift reaction ♦ shift register ♦ shift right logical ♦ shift the scene ♦ shift the scenes ♦ shift up ♦ shift work ♦ shift worker ♦ shift yourself! ♦ sound shift ♦ split shift ♦ stick shift ♦ swing shift ♦ temporary threshold shift ♦ third shift ♦ To make shift ♦ To shift off ♦ To shift the helm ♦ To shift the scene ♦ wind shift ♦ work shift. Additional references.

Beginning with "shift": Shift-alt-f, shift-change, shift-charge, shift-jis, shift-key, Shift-lock, shift-out, shift-rate, Shift-tab, shift-work, shift-workers, shift-working.

Ending with "shift": band-shift, doppler-shift, make-shift, night-shift, pre-shift, red-shift, topic-shift, two-shift.

Containing "shift": frequency-shift-keying, phase-shift-keyed.

Albanian

spostim (shunt), zhvendosje (displacement, locomotion, transposal, transposition), zhvendosem (circulate), turn (change, circuit, gang), transmetim (broadcast, communication, movement, remove, translation, transmission), transferoj (assign, circulate, devolve, down-load, draft, draught, move, transfer, translate, trans-ship), ndryshoj (alter, amend, change, differ, diversify, do up, inflect, manipulate, metamorphose, recast, reverse, switch, transform, vary), ndryshim (alteration, amendment, change, difference, disparity, dissimilarity, dissimilation, dissimilitude, distinction, inflection, inflexion, innovation, manipulation, metamorphosis, modification, mutation, permutation, recast, reversal, reverse, shifting, switch, transit, transition, turn, variation), ndërroj vend (circulate, transpose), ndërrim (change, commutation, exchange, permutation, proselytism, substitution, transfiguration), lëkundem (dangle, falter, halt, hang, hesitate, jolt, jumble, nod, nutate, oscillate, pendulate, reel, rock, shake, stagger, sway, swing, totter, vacillate, vibrate, wabble, wallow, wamble, waver, wobble), çalltis (endeavor, endeavour, fare, finagle, rub along). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تنقل (get about, locomotion, move), ‏رحل (be moved, carry, depart, expel, flit, itinerant, migrant, move, pack up, part, pass, peregrinate, pull out, relay, remove, send back, slope), ‏ألقى (cast, cast down, deliver, dump, fasten, lay down, lot, recite, set down, throw, throw down), ‏إنتقل (devolve, hand down, lift, move out, switch, transfer), ‏عمل بالمناوبة, ‏عمل النهار, ‏تدبر أمره بنفسه, ‏تحرك (get about, locomotion, move, movement, proceed, stir, wag), ‏تغير (alter, alteration, change, convert, metamorphose, modify, mutate, mutation, range, set of exchange, shift up, swing, turn, variation, vary, vicissitude), ‏تغير السرعة, ‏تغير موضع شىء, ‏تغير في الإتجاه, ‏بدل (allowance, apposition, change, exchange, lieu, quid pro quo, recompense, sit, substitute, supersede, switch, treadle), ‏تناوب (alternate, alternation, relay, rotate, rotation), ‏فترة فاصلة (comma, interlude, interstice, lag, parenthesis), ‏غير (beyond, budge, but, change, commute, fashion, masquerade, metamorphose, mis, modify, modulate, non, overrun, rehash, renew, reverse, revise, shape, switch, switch over, than, transfer, transpose, turn, un-), ‏وردية الليل (nightshift), ‏قميص نسائي داخلي, ‏قميص نسوي, ‏قميص نسوي تحتي, ‏نوتية, ‏نقل (alien, alienate, assign, bandy, carriage, carry, carry forward, communicate, convection, convey, conveyance, copy, deliver, freight, go cart, hand on, handling, pass on, pipe, portage, promotion, propagate, relocate, remove, reproduction, route, take away, tote, transfer, transference, transfuse, transit, transmission, transmit, transport, transportation), ‏مدة العمل, ‏مناوبة (alternation, by fits and starts, relay, rotation, turn of duty, watch), ‏فارق الزمن (lag, time lag), ‏فترة عمل, ‏تغييرة ملابس. (various references)

Bulgarian 

постепенна промяна, движа се бързо (clip, double, hasten, jump, scour, scud, spank, speed, spin, travel, whirl, zoom), меня (shed, vary), промяна (alteration, change, chop, countermarch, innovation, mutation, permutation, reversal, sea change, transition, transmutation, turn, turnover, variance, variation), променям (alter, change, change to, differentiate, graduate, leaven, modify, mutate, remodel, reshape, reverse, shade, turn, vary), прехвърлям се (get over, remove, transfer), обръщам посоката, премествам (displace, heave, move, offset, remove, shunt, switch over, transfer, translate, translocate, transpose), отсед, помествам (budge, insert, move, move aside, place, publish), изяждам (clip, consume, dispose of, eat up, manage), изхитрям се (contrive), извъртам (boggle, dodge, double talk, equivocate, pull round, screw, shuffle, sophisticate, tergiversate, twist, wangle, whiffle), изместване (displacement, lag, offset), изпивам (consume, down, drain, drink, drink up, lower, put away, suck down, suck up, take off), превключване (change over, reverse), риза (envelope, shirt), уловка (ruse, snare, trepan, wile), скорост (bat, milage, mileage, pace, rapidity, rate, speed, swiftness, velocity), смяна (alternation, change, exchange, interchange, relay, rotation, transfer, turn, vicissitude), сменяне (interchange, relief), сменям (alternate, change, change off, change round, exchange, interchange, relay, spell, swap, switch over to, throw, transfer), местя (disturb, move, move about, relocate, remove), разместване (dislocation, reversal, shuffle, translocation), средство (agency, contrivance, device, help, instrumentality, instrumentation, means, medium, pry, recourse, remedy, resort, resource, tool, weapon), хитрина (catch, contrivance, craft, craftiness, deceit, dodgery, expedient, fetch, foxiness, legerdemain, trickery, wheeze, wile, wiliness), тясна невталена рокля, шикалкавя (boggle, fence, hedge, quibble, shuffle, stall), косо изместване, карам криво-ляво (shift for oneself), въдица (fishhook, hook), справям се (acquit oneself, cope, do well, get along, get through, hold one's own, hold up, manage, refer, shift for oneself, tackle). (various references)

Chinese 

轉移 (divert, migrate), 转移 (Abalienate, metastasis, Shifted, shifting, Transferred, Transferring), 搬 (move, remove, transport), 替換 (exchange, switch). (various references)

Czech

smìna (inning, relay), posun (advance), řadit (gear up), hnát se (belt, career, hurtle, plunge, pursue, push on, race, rush, shoot, spurt, tear along, urge), kalit to, kopnout do sebe, mìnit (disguise), mìnit se (mutate), přesun (displacement), úskok (dodge, game, jink, ruse, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, trickery, wile), pomùcka (tool), zmìna (alteration, amendment, break, change, changeover, mutation, relief, revision, transformation, variance, variation, vicissitude), posunout (put over), výmìna (change, exchange, renewal, replacement, reversal, swap, switch, truck), výmysl (contraption, fable, fabrication, fantasy, fiction, invention, story), zbavit se èeho (clear off, do away with, get rid of smth., make away with, work off), zblajznout, zlom (change), pohnout z místa. (various references)

Danish

skiftearbejde, skifte (operating, switching), skift (offset), udligning (compensation, conditioning, equalisation, equalization, equalizing, offset, reconciliation, regeneration), partsforskydning (cross-joint, mismatch, variation), hold (batch, batch of animals, fastener, obstruction), forskydning af formparterne indbyrdes (cross joint), forskydning (accident, cross-joint, discomposition, dislocation, displacement, disturbance, key offset, knocking out, mismatch, offset, rack, shear, shearing, shog, variation), forskyde (change the position, displace, faulting, stagger). (various references)

Dutch

verschuiving (cross-joint, displacement, fault, mismatch, rift, variation). (various references)

Esperanto

forŝovo, forŝoviĝo. (various references)

Farsi 

تغییرمکان (Move, Movement), ابتکار (Contraption, Gumption, Improvisation, Industry, Initiative, Invention, Knack, Originality, Resource, Shebang), استعداد (Amplitude, Aptitude, Aptness, Art, Brilliance, Caliber, Capacity, Genius, Gift, Ingenuity, Knack, Liability, Property, Tendency, Turquoise, Verve), انتقال (Bail, Conduction, Conveyance, Intuition, Transmission, Transmittal, Turnover), انتقال دادن (Alienate, Demise, Remise, Transmit), تعبیه (Appliance, Improvisation, Shebang), تعویض (Refill, Replacement, Substitute, Switch, Turnover), تعویض کردن (Put, Substitute, Supplant), بوش , تغییرمسیردادن , پخش کردن (Diffuse, Dispread, Distribute, Divide, Scatter, Spread, Strew), تغییرمکان دادن , توطله (Conspiracy, Plot, Underplot), تناوب (Alternation, Frequency), حقه (Bob, Hob, Intake, Knack, Monkeyshine, Trick), نوبت (Heat, Inning, Period, Tour, Turquoise), نوبت کار, نوبتی (Intermittent, Periodic, Serial, Tyupical), نقشه خاءنانه , تغییرجهت (Turquoise). (various references)

Finnish

vuoro (figure, turn), siirtää (assign, carry forward, convey, dislodge, displace, endorse, graft, hand over, make ... over, move, remove, transfer, transmit, transplant, transport). (various references)

French

poste, déplacer, décalage, équipe (ship). (various references)

German

verschiebung (alteration, deferment, deferral, displacement, heave, moving, postponement, remission, shifting, shunting, slip), verschieben (alter, change, defer, delay, dislodge, displace, hold over, leave over, move, postpone, put back, put off, relocate, relocating, remit, ruck up, scrolls, shunt, slant, to displace, to relocate, traffic in), verlagerung (displacement, movement, moving, transfer), umschalten (change, change over, commute, convert, flick a switch, go over, pull a lever, push a lever, switch, switch over, to shift, turn over, zap), schicht (coat, coating, film, layer, level, order, ply, rank, sheet, strata, stratum, streak, thickness). (various references)

Greek 

μετατοπίζω (displace, move, transpose), μετακινώ (get around, move, move remove, redeploy, remove, shuffle, transfer). (various references)

Hebrew 

לעתק (copy by carbon, haul, shunt, switch), לזוז (budge, go away, move, stir), ל�"עתיק (displace, remove, transfer), ל�"זיז (budge, mobilize, move), תמרון (maneuver, manoeuvre, opening gambit), תזוז�" (displacement, motion, move, movement, moving), תחבול�" (artifice, expedient, fetch, finesse, hatch, machination, mean, ruse, scheme, stratagem, subterfuge, thingumajig thingumabob, trick, wile), תכסיס (manner of conduct, ploy, stratagem, strategy, tactics, trick), שמל�" (dress, frock, garment, gown, robe, skirt), ש� וי (alteration, change, modification, mutation, revision, studied, turnover, variation), �"עתק�" (copy, copying, duplication, representation, translation), �"עבר�" (communication, conveyance, passing, removal, transference), �"זז�" (displacement, removal, shifting). (various references)

Hungarian

eltolódás (dislocation, swing). (various references)

Indonesian

pergeseran (mutation, reshuffle, transfer), mengingsut (move up slowly), menggeser (replace, rub against, transfer), aplosan, alih (change position). (various references)

Italian

turno (duty, relay, round, sitting, spell, turn, watch), spostare (budge, delay, dislocate, displace, move, remove, scrolls), spostamento (change of position, displacement, movement, moving, postponement), cambio (alteration, change, exchange, exchange rate, gear, I change, relief, tradeoff). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

交替 (alternation, change, relay, relief). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�"うたいい�", �"うたい (a luminous body, alternation, antibody, backspace, change, exchange, relay, relief, retreat, rise and fall), シフト , へい�"ういどう (parallel displacement, translation), て�"�"う (about-face, change schools, conversion, queen of heaven, spotlight, switch, weather, work of nature). (various references)

Korean 

교대 (shifting). (various references)

Manx

shayll obbree, scughey (budge, dislodge, dislodgement, displace, displacement, evict, eviction, move, moving, quit, removal, remove, scoot, shift about, shifting), jannoo arraghey, arraghey (adjourn, adjournment, change, change course, digress, digression, dislodge, dislodgement, displacement, manoeuvre, motion, move, mutation, removal, remove, trim). (various references)

Pig Latin

iftshay.(various references)

Portuguese

deslocar (disjoint, dislocate, displace, edge, fork, luxate, move, offset, remove, sneak, splay, translocate). (various references)

Romanian

schimbare (about-face, alteration, change, changeableness, chop, conversion, exchange, fluctuation, modification, mutability, mutation, novelty, passage, transformation, unsteadiness, vacillation, variability, variance, variation), schimba (alter, change, chop, commute, convert into, exchange, fashion, improve, interchange, modify, renew, replace, substitute, supersede, supplant, swap, transfigure, transform, transmogrify, transmute, turn, vary), schimbare foneticã, se descurca (contrive, disentangle, extricate oneself, live on one's wits, manage, rub along, rub on, unravel), strãmuta (change, displace, move, remove, transform), subterfugiu (evasion, quibble, quip, subterfuge), schimb (barter, change, compensation, exchange, I change, pair, relay, relief, return, spell, substitute, swap, swop, truck), a-şi schimba direcţia (chop about, chop round, haul, veer), muta (change, displace, hitch, move, pan, permute, re-house, remove), întoarce (crank, geld, put about, repay, retaliate, retort, reverse, revert, set, spade, turn), deplasa (dislocate, dislodge, displace, draw, go, misplace, move away, remove, travel, work), a-şi schimba locul, avea o atitudine nehotãrâtã, şiretlic (catch, device, fake, ruse, sharp practice, shuffle, stratagem, trick, trickery, wile), cãmaşã de noapte (bedgown, night dress, night gown, night shirt), chiţibuş (detail, subtlety, trifle), chichiţã (evasion, stratagem, subterfuge), expedient (expedient, makeshift, substitute), face felul (knock off, make away with), înlocui (change, commute, cover, displace, do duty for, make good, replace, supersede, supplant), modificare (alteration, change, improvement, modification, passage, turn), viclenie (archness, artfulness, astuteness, catch, contrivance, craft, cunning, devilry, finesse, fraud, guile, ruse, subtlety, vicleim, wile), o scoate la capãt (keep the pot boiling, make both ends meet, manage, rub along, rub on), omorî (annihilate, assassinate, bring down, bump, butcher, croak, destroy, dispatch, do for, do in, execute, exhaust, finish, kill, knock off, make an end of, make away with, murder, put smb. on the spot, put to death, send to glory, slaughter, slay, spoil, torment, torture), transfera (assign, cede, deliver, displace, relegate, remise, sign off, transfer), transferare (assignation, delivery, remove, transfer, transferring), mijloc de existenţã. (various references)

Russian 

уловка (artifice, circumvention, come off, dodge, double cross, expedient, gimmick, put off, ruse, shuffle, stealth, stratagem, strategem, wangle), смена (change, exchange, pair, relay, relief), сдвигать сдвиг, сдвигать (dislocate, skew), сдвиг (dislocation, displacement, shear, shearing, translation, upheaval), менять (barter, change, exchange, swap, swop, vary), перестановка (interchanging, permutation, rearrangement, reshuffle, reversal, reversion, transposal, transposition), переключать скорости, перемещаться (ambulate, traverse), перемещать (displace, move, move down, relocate, remove, resettle, scroll, shifted, shuffle, transfer, translocate, transporting, transpose), перемена (alteration, change, chop, mutation, permutation, relief, reverse, turn), передвинуть (move), передвижение (locomotion, movement). (various references)

Scottish

léine (a shirt, shirt, smock, winding-sheet). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

svaliti (dump, knock down, topple), smicalica (artifice, dodge, gimmick, manipulation, trick, wile), smena (change, changing, relief, replacement, tour), rotacija (rotation, spin, twist), promeniti (adjourn, change, reverse, revise, transform, transmogrify, turn around), promena (change, changing, declension, inflection, modification, shifting, transit, transition, vicissitude), probijati se (penetrate), preokret (reversal, switch, turn over, turnover, upheaval, vicissitude, volte-face), premestiti (displace, move, transplant, transpose), premeštaj (transfer, transposal, transposition), prebacivati (transfer), preći (change over, cote, cover, cover ground, cross, go over, march, overpass, pass over, pass through, shade, transit, traverse). (various references)

Spanish

corrimiento del molde (cross joint), adelantar (advance, anticipate, bring forward, farther, forego, further, outdistance, outgo, outmarch, outride, outwalk, overhaul, overtake, pass, put forward, put on, set forward, to pass), escapatoria (escape, flight, getaway, loophole, quirk, secret trip), equipo (accouterment, accouterments, apparatus, appointments, crew, equipage, equipment, gang, gear, kit, lot, outfit, party, plant, set, side, squad, tackle, team, things), desplazarse (travel), desplazar (displace), desplazamiento lateral (drift), falla (failure, fault, flaw, void), desencaje en la junta (cross-joint, mismatch, variation), impulsar (act, boost, impel, impulse, move, operate, propel, pump, stir, thrust), corrimiento (slipping), ca