movement vs shift

shift vs movement

movement and shift both are nouns.

movement is not a verb while shift is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
movement	Yes	No	No	No
shift	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, shift is a hyponym of movement; that is, shift is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than movement:

movement: the act of changing location from one place to another
shift: the act of moving from one place to another

Other hyponyms of movement include approach, approaching, coming, advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motion, procession, progress, progression, locomotion, travel, lunge, lurch, travel, traveling, travelling, chase, following, pursual, pursuit, ascending, ascension, ascent, rise, descent, swing, swinging, vacillation, return, coast, glide, slide, slippage, flow, stream, crawl, hurrying, speed, speeding, displacement, translation, shifting, haste, hurry, rush, rushing, maneuver, manoeuvre, play, migration.

movement (noun)	shift (noun)
a change of position that does not entail a change of location	the act of moving from one place to another
the act of changing the location of something	the act of changing one thing or position for another
a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end	a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
the act of changing location from one place to another	a woman's sleeveless undergarment
the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)	the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters
a general tendency to change (as of opinion)	an event in which something is displaced without rotation
a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata	a qualitative change
a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something	a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time
a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals	(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object	the time period during which you are at work
a euphemism for defecation

movement (verb)	shift (verb)
	make a shift in or exchange of
	move and exchange for another
	lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
	move from one setting or context to another
	change in quality
	change gears
	change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change
	use a shift key on a keyboard
	change place or direction
	move very slightly
	move around
	move abruptly
	move sideways or in an unsteady way

Difference between movement and shift

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