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UK
/ʃˈɪftɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈʃɪftɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈʃɪftɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
(of soil) unstable
unfirm earth
shifting sands -
changing position or direction
shifty winds
he drifted into the shifting crowd
their nervous shifting glances -
continuously varying
taffeta with shifting colors
NOUN
-
the act of moving from one place to another
his constant shifting disrupted the class
How To Use shifting In A Sentence
- His self-image is rooted in robotic toughness, like the shape-shifting, molten-metal fiend in Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
- I felt that weird shifting movement and a feathery light object grazed my bare skin.
- It is also shifting plenty of feminine, lacy lingerie, in the kind of bright colours that go well with a sun tan.
- The goal of shifting freight from road to rail has been quietly abandoned.
- She speculated that the shifting social status of women during the war years stoked male anxiety about female bonding and independence from men.
- The partisans fought a revolutionary war in a constantly shifting pattern, and their leadership did so with a political aim.
- The "SynchroRev Match" function automatically controls and adjusts engine speed when shifting to the speed of the next gear position, essentially "blipping" the throttle to smooth out any up / down shifts. Autoblog
- Putting it all together yields a compelling story: European banks are shifting their cash assets out of European banks and putting much of them into US banks.
- As a result, the nexus of America's dairy industry is shifting to such places as New Mexico and Idaho with cheap land and fewer people to complain about the smells wafting from a 5,000-cow dairy farm.
- The action of a mutual fund or portfolio manager shifting investment assets from one sector of the economy to another.