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shifting vs movement

movement vs shifting

shifting and movement both are nouns.

shifting is an adjective but movement is not an adjective.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
shifting Yes Yes No No
movement Yes No No No
As nouns, movement is a hypernym of shifting; that is, movement is a word with a broader meaning than shifting:
  • shifting: the act of moving from one place to another
  • movement: the act of changing location from one place to another
Other hypernyms of shifting include motion, move.
shifting (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 the location of something
a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
the act of changing location from one place to another
the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)
a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata
a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
a euphemism for defecation
shifting (adjective) movement (adjective)
(of soil) unstable
changing position or direction
continuously varying
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