shift vs tour

shift and tour both are nouns.

shift and tour both are verbs.

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

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

shift: the time period during which you are at work
tour: a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)

Other hyponyms of shift include go, spell, turn, trick, watch, day shift, evening shift, swing shift, graveyard shift, night shift, split shift.

shift (noun)	tour (noun)
the act of moving from one place to another	a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area
the act of changing one thing or position for another	a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist	a period of time spent in military service
a woman's sleeveless undergarment
the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters
an event in which something is displaced without rotation
a qualitative change
a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time
(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
the time period during which you are at work

shift (verb)	tour (verb)
make a shift in or exchange of	make a tour of a certain place
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 tour

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