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shift
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casualisation
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rostered on
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switch
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shifting
scrattle
roster
time-switch
milk the clock
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tabulatable
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interim overhaul
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grind
job
donkeywork
hunt
veer
working hours
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timeshift
sunlighting
clock watcher
mover
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workhour
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timeworker
pivoting
hotelling
hoot owl shift
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chop
kaizen
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clopen
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shiftmate
spell
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late
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four-way switch
shift
shiftiness
casualisation
turn
call
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sunlighting
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mover
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twilight shift
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zag
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right shift
shift
left shift
change over
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scrattle
milk the clock
bounce around
job
hunt
veer
chop
kaizen
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noun
- A daily period of work, especially in shift-based jobs.
- A sex act, chiefly one performed for payment; an act of prostitution.
- Something designed to fool or swindle.
- A term of abuse.
- A knot, braid, or plait of hair.
- A sequence in which each player plays a card and a winning play is determined.
- A customer or client of a prostitute.
- A toy; a trifle; a plaything.
- A single element of a magician's (or any variety entertainer's) act; a magic trick.
- An effective, clever or quick way of doing something.
- A sailor's spell of work at the helm, usually two hours long.
- Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank.
- An entertaining difficult physical action.
verb
- To dress; to decorate; to adorn fantastically; often followed by up, off, or out.
- To fool; to cause to believe something untrue; to deceive.
- To draw (as opposed to blazon - to describe in words).
adj
verb
noun
- A shift (of work); (rare) a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour.
- An uninterrupted series of alternate overs bowled by a single bowler.
- A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula.
- An indefinite period of time (usually with a qualifier); by extension, a relatively short distance.
- Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.
- A definite period (of work or other activity).
- A splinter, usually of wood; a spelk.
- The wooden bat in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.
- A period of rest; time off.
- A period of illness, or sudden interval of bad spirits, disease etc.
verb
- To be able to write or say the letters that form words.
- To work in place of (someone).
- To constitute; to measure.
- To rest (someone or something), to give someone or something a rest or break.
- To clarify; to explain in detail.
- Of letters: to compose (a word).
- To indicate that (some event) will occur.
- To rest from work for a time.
- To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
- To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word.
noun
adv
adj
noun
adv
- After a deadline has passed, past a designated time.
- Not long ago; just now.
- Formerly, especially in the context of service in a military unit.
adj
- Not having had an expected menstrual period.
- Associated with the end of a period.
- Levied as a surcharge on a payment received after a deadline.
- Deceased, dead: used particularly when speaking of the dead person's actions while alive. (Generally must be preceded by a possessive or an article, commonly "the"; see usage notes. Can itself only precede the person's name, never follow it.)
- Existing or holding some position not long ago, but not now; departed, or gone out of office.
- Specifically, near the end of the day.
- Recent — relative to the noun it modifies.
- Near the end of a period of time.
- Of a star or class of stars, cooler than the sun.
- Not arriving or occurring until after an expected time.
name
noun
- A work period that extends significantly beyond the normal eight-hour shift; An instance of involuntary overtime.
- An unfitted woman's overgarment.
- A misalignment resulting from shifting gears too far.
- A change that results in something being moved too far or too many things being moved.
- An overhang caused by seismic shift.
- The strategy or act of positioning defensive players extra far toward the offense's strong side, leaving portions of the field or court undefended.
- The amount of displacement in the layers in a crystal lattice that places the layers too far apart for molecular bonding.
verb
- To replant or repot too soon or too often.
- To raise the price to consumers by more than an underlying cost increase that results from rising taxes.
- To overshoot when changing gears.
- To position defensive players too far in a particular direction.
- To move too great an amount or move something too far.
noun
noun
- A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
- A bit shift.
- An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
- In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.
- An instance of the use of such a code or character.
- The act of kissing passionately.
- A type of women's undergarment of dress length worn under dresses or skirts, a slip or chemise.
- The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
- A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
- A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
- The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
- A period of time in which one's consciousness resides in another reality, usually achieved through meditation or other means.
- A control code or character used to change between different character sets.
- An infield shift.
- A simple straight-hanging, loose-fitting dress.
verb
- To change position.
- To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
- To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.
- In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut.
- To dispose of.
- To practice indirect or evasive methods.
- To remove the first value from an array.
- To change gears (in a car).
- To hurry; to move quickly.
- To change the reality one's consciousness resides in through meditation or other means.
- To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
- To change in form or character; switch.
- To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.
- To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.
- To engage in sexual petting.
noun
- A spell of work, especially the time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
- The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
- A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
- A change in temperament or circumstance.
- A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again.
- One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
- A single loop of a coil.
- Character; personality; nature.
- A short skit, act, or routine.
- A fit or a period of giddiness.
- A unit of plane angle measurement based on this movement.
- A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
- A pass behind or through an object.
- An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- A walk to and fro.
- The profit made by a stockjobber, being the difference between the buying and selling prices.
- A deed done to another; an act of kindness or malice.
- A change of direction or orientation.
- A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation.
- The time required to complete a project.
verb
- To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
- To magically or divinely attack undead.
- To be nauseated; said of the stomach.
- To change the color of the leaves in the autumn.
- To sour or spoil; to go bad.
- To reach a certain age.
- To sicken; to nauseate.
- Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- To transform into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- To position (something) by folding it, or using its folds.
- To rebel; to go against something formerly tolerated.
- To give form to; to shape or mould; to adapt.
- To complete.
- To become (begin to be).
- To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.
- To change (a person) into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- To make (money); turn a profit.
- Of a bowler, to make (the ball) move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- To navigate through a book or other printed material.
- To change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation.
- To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle.
- Of a body, person, etc, to move around an axis through itself.
- To change one's direction of travel.
- Of a ball, to move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- To change personalities, such as from being a face (good guy) to heel (bad guy) or vice versa.
- To become giddy; said of the head or brain.
- To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
- To shape (something) symmetrically by rotating it against a stationary cutting tool, as on a lathe.
- To hinge; to depend.
noun
- A work shift which requires one to be available when requested, i.e. on call.
- A short visit, usually for social purposes.
- A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
- A cry or shout.
- A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.
- A lawyer who was called to the bar (became licensed as a lawyer) in a specified year.
- The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
- The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
- An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
- An instance of calling someone on the telephone.
- Need; necessity.
- The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
- A decision or judgement.
- A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
- A telephone conversation; a phone call.
- The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
- A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
- A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.
- A beckoning or summoning.
- A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
- A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call.
- The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
- The act of calling to the other batsman.
verb
- To require, demand.
- To scold.
- To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
- To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.
- Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.
- (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions).
- To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.
- To request, summon, or beckon.
- To cause to be verbally subjected to.
- To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
- To come to pass; to afflict.
- To match the current bet amount, in preparation for a raise in the same turn. (Usually, players are forbidden to announce one's play this way.)
- To predict.
- To contact by telephone.
- To pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again).
- To name or refer to.
- To cry or shout.
- To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting.
- (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.
- To stop at a station or port.
- To claim the existence of some malfeasance; to denounce as.
- To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure.
- To utter in a loud or distinct voice.
- To formally recognise a death: especially to announce and record the time, place and fact of a person’s death.
- To declare in advance.
- To request that one's band play (a particular tune).
- To lay claim to an object or role which is up for grabs.
- To tell in advance which shot one is attempting.
- To demand repayment of a loan.
- To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
- To make a decision as a referee or umpire.
verb
- To end one's shift at a job.
- To have one's tires skid against the ground; to peel off, peel out.
- To destroy by fire.
- To cause (someone) to tire due to overwork; to cause (someone) to overwork to one's limit.
- To make (someone) unavailable for work involving exposure to ionizing radiation by employing (the person) in such work until the person's accumulated exposure reaches the maximum permitted for an administrative period, typically a year.
- To tire due to overwork; to overwork to their limit.
- To become extinguished due to lack of fuel.
- To become nonfunctional (especially of lightbulbs or similar light-producing devices).
noun
noun
- The person who takes over a shift for another.
- The feeling associated with the removal of stress or discomfort.
- Release from a post or duty, as when replaced by another.
- A type of sculpture or other artwork in which shapes or figures protrude from a flat background.
- A certain fine or composition paid by the heir of a tenant upon the death of the ancestor.
- A lowering of a tax through special provisions; tax relief.
- The apparent difference in elevation in the surface of a painting or drawing made noticeable by a variation in light or color.
- Aid or assistance offered in time of need.
- The removal of stress or discomfort.
- The supposed projection of a charge from the surface of a field, indicated by shading on the sinister and lower sides.
- Court-ordered compensation, aid, or protection, a redress.
- The difference of elevations on a surface.
adj
verb
- make a shift in or exchange of
- change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence
- exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
- cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation
- flog with or as if with a flexible rod
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
noun
- control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit
- an event in which one thing is substituted for another
- hairpiece consisting of a tress of false hair; used by women to give shape to a coiffure
- railroad track having two movable rails and necessary connections; used to turn a train from one track to another or to store rolling stock
- a flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment
- a basketball maneuver; two defensive players shift assignments so that each guards the player usually guarded by the other
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
noun
- A schedule or timetable setting out shift times and dates for each employee of a business.
- A list of individuals or groups, usually for an organization of some kind such as military officers and enlisted personnel enrolled in a particular unit; a muster roll; a sports team, with the names of players who are eligible to be placed in the lineup for a particular game; or a list of students officially enrolled in a school or class.
- A bracketed list that shows the elements of a set.
- A list of the jobs to be done by members of an organization and often with the date/time that they are expected to do them.
verb
noun
- hard monotonous routine work
- an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
- the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground
- the act of grinding to a powder or dust
verb
- press or grind with a crushing noise
- make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
- work hard
- dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced
- reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
- created by grinding
- shape or form by grinding
verb
- work occasionally
- profit privately from public office and official business
- arranged for contracted work to be done by others
- invest at a risk
noun
- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
- a workplace; as in the expression `on the job'
- an object worked on; a result produced by working
- the responsibility to do something
- the performance of a piece of work
- a damaging piece of work
- a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
- (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
- a crime (especially a robbery)
verb
- To shift up and down in order regularly.
- To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, etc.; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.
- To try to find something; search (for).
- To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
- To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
- To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.
- To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.
- To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
noun
noun
- A temporary replacement for another, especially at a job.
- Something added to fill a gap.
- A substitution.
- An intermediate result that must be stored temporarily during the course of a sparse matrix computation.
- A musical embellishment (usually percussion) that is added to connect musical phrases.
- A product category that is used to complete a range or variety of a product line.
- Something added to increase the size of something; padding or filler.
- A question or puzzle in which one is expected to fill in a missing part of something.
verb
- To vary or shift suddenly.
- To make a quick, heavy stroke or a series of strokes, with or as with an ax.
- To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.
- To remove the final character from (a text string).
- To interrupt; with in or out.
- to give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand.
- To stab.
- To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
- To converse, discuss, or speak with another.
- To stamp or seal (a document); to mark, impress or otherwise place a design or symbol on paper or other material, usually, but not necessarily, to indicate authenticity.
- To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players.
- To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
- To sever with an axe or similar implement.
- To seal a license or passport.
- To chap or crack.
noun
- A movable jaw or cheek, as of a vice.
- A complete shipment.
- A license or passport that has been sealed.
- The device used for stamping or sealing, which also contains the design to be imprinted.
- A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar utensil.
- A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.
- A stamp or seal; a mark, imprint or impression on a document (or other object or material) made by stamping or sealing a design with ink or wax, respectively, or by other methods.
- Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.
- A woodchopping competition.
- A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
- Termination, especially from employment; the sack.
- A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.
- A mark indicating nature, quality, or brand.
- A turn of fortune; change; a vicissitude.
- A jaw of an animal.
- An IRC channel operator.
- The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbour, or channel.
verb
- To vary by turns.
- To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.
- To perform an alternation (removal of alternate vertices) on (a polytope or tessellation); to remove vertices (from a face or edge) as part of an alternation.
- To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; followed by with.
adj
- Other; alternative.
- Distributed singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence
- Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second.
- Happening by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; first one and then the other (repeatedly)
noun
- A substitute; an alternative; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty.
- A replacement of equal or greater value or function.
- A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.
- That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.
- Figures or tinctures that succeed each other by turns.
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