0 past simple and past participle of shift
1 to (cause something or someone to) move or change from one position or direction to another, especially slightly:
She shifted (her weight) uneasily from one foot to the other.
Society's attitudes towards women have shifted enormously over the last century.
Media attention has shifted recently onto environmental issues.
In cars that are automatics, you don't have to bother with shifting gears.
She shifted restlessly in her chair.
She was shifting around in her seat.
Fiona shifted around, looking embarrassed.
Averages of the shifted cohort lines are shown by bold curves, 95 % confidence intervals are shown by light curves.
In fact, it starts converging to the microcanonical distribution at a shifted temperature before slowly sliding over to the correct temperature (but wrong distribution).
The distribution of shifted tokens in the /ow/ class is shown in figure 10.