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shift vs movement

movement vs shift

shift and movement both are nouns.

shift is a verb but movement is not a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
shift Yes No Yes No
movement Yes No No No
As nouns, movement is a hypernym of shift; that is, movement is a word with a broader meaning than shift:
  • shift: the act of moving from one place to another
  • movement: the act of changing location from one place to another
Other hypernyms of shift include motion, move.
shift (noun) movement (noun)
the act of moving from one place to another a change of position that does not entail a change of location
the act of changing one thing or position for another the act of changing the location of something
a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
a woman's sleeveless undergarment the act of changing location from one place to another
the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)
an event in which something is displaced without rotation a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
a qualitative change a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata
a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
the time period during which you are at work an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
a euphemism for defecation
shift (verb) movement (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 shift and movement

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