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switch: make a shift in or exchange of; "First Joe led; then we switched" change place or direction; "Shift one's position" transfer: move around; "transfer the packet from his trouser pockets to a pocket in his jacket" an event in which something is displaced without rotation stir: move very slightly; "He shifted in his seat" transformation: a qualitative change move from one setting or context to another; "shift the emphasis"; "shift one's attention" the time period during which you are at work change in quality; "His tone shifted" move and exchange for another; "shift the date for our class reunion" switch: the act of changing one thing or position for another; "his switch on abortion cost him the election" the act of moving from one place to another; "his constant shifting disrupted the class" careen: move sideways or in an unsteady way; "The ship careened out of control" lurch: move abruptly; "The ship suddenly lurched to the left" fault: (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other; "they built it right over a geological fault"; "he studied the faulting of the earth's crust" a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time use a shift key on a keyboard; "She could not shift so all her letters are written in lower case" shift key: the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change; "Grimm showed how the consonants shifted" chemise: a woman's sleeveless undergarment change gears; "you have to shift when you go down a steep hill" switch: lay aside, abandon, or leave for another; "switch to a different brand of beer"; "She switched psychiatrists"; "The car changed lanes" chemise: a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
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| shunt |
a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another; "an arteriovenus shunt" a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current transfer to another track, of trains implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for draining fluids within the body provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt
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| shyness |
a feeling of fear of embarrassment
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| shamanism |
any animistic religion similar to Asian shamanism (especially as practiced by certain Native American tribes) an animistic religion of northern Asia having the belief that the mediation between the visible and the spirit worlds is effected by shamans
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| sheep tick |
sheep ked: wingless fly that is an external parasite on sheep and cattle sheep-tick: parasitic on sheep and cattle as well as humans; can transmit looping ill in sheep (acute viral disease of the nervous system); a vector for Lyme disease spirochete
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