Shift one's ground

Definition

shift /ʃÇft/ v ၁။ ~ (sth) (from…) (to…) (က) ေရြ႕သည္။ ေျပာင္း သည္။ The action of the novel shifts from Paris to London. ❍ The balance of opinion has shifted away from state intervention in industry. ❍ shifting alliances. (ခ) ေရႊ႕သည္။ ေျပာင္းသည္။ လႊဲ(ခ်)သည္။ shift our resources/priorities to another project ❍ Don't try to shift the responsibility onto others. ၂။ ~ (sth) (about/around) ေရြ႕သည္။ ေျပာင္းသည္။ ေရႊ႕သည္။ The cargo has shifted. ❍ The tools shift around in the boot every time the car turns a corner. ❍ The wind shifted from east to north. ❍ stage-hands shifting scenery ❍ The teacher shifted the desks around. ❍ Help me shift the sofa away from the fire. ၃။ (က) ကိုယ္ကိုႏွဲ႔သည္။ လြန္႔သည္။ shift from one foot to the other (ie while standing) ❍ The audience shifted uneasily in their seats. (ခ) ~ (oneself) ( infml ) ထြက္သည္။ သြားသည္။ ဖယ္သည္။ That's my seat you're sitting in, so shift (yourself)! (ဂ) ( Brit infml ) ျမန္ျမန္သြားသည္။ You'll have to shift if you want to get there by nine o'clock. ❍ That car can really shift! ၄။ ~ out of sth/into sth ; ~ up/down ( US ) (ဂီယာ) ေျပာင္းသည္၊ ထိုးသည္။ shifting gear ❍ shift out of first into second ❍ Shift up when you reach 30 mph. n ၁။ [C] ~ (in sth) ေျပာင္းလဲမႈ။ ေရြ႕ျခင္း။ a gradual shift in the population away from the countryside to the towns ❍ a shift in the direction of the wind ❍ shifts in public opinion ❍ a shift of emphasis/resources. ၂။ [C] (က) (အ)ဆိုင္း။ be on the day/night shift at the factory ❍ work an eight-hour shift ❍ working in shifts ❍ shift workers/work. (ခ) [CGp] (ေန႔၊ ည)အဆိုင္း။ The night shift has/have just come off duty. Compare RELAY ၂, RELIEF 1 ၅ ၃။ (လက္ႏိွပ္စက္ႏွင့္ ကြန္ပ်ဴတာ)စာလံုးေျပာင္းခလုတ္။ a shift-key. ၄။ အမ်ဳိးသမီးဝတ္ သင္တိုင္း။ ❏ shift one's ground [ IDM ] ရပ္တည္ခ်က္ ေျပာင္းသည္။ ❏ shift for oneself [ PHRV ] ကိုယ့္အားကိုယ္ကိုး ရပ္တည္ သည္။ When their parents died, the children had to shift for themselves. ❏ (the) shifting sands (of sth) [ IDM ] အၿမဲေျပာင္းလဲေန ေသာ အေျခအေန။ the shifting sands of world affairs.

Examples

1. Public opinion had shifted sharply to the left following the war.
2. [shift your ground] : Most newspapers have shifted their ground considerably on this issue.
3. [shift attention/focus/emphasis] : The government has shifted its attention away from the fight against crime.
4. Britain’s focus is shifting back towards its old partners in Europe.
5. She shifted smoothly into third gear as we went into the bend.
6. [shift blame/responsibility] : They want to shift the blame for rising unemployment onto the recession.
7. The children are shifting uncomfortably in their seats.
8. [shift your weight] : Martha shifted her weight from foot to foot.
9. We’ll need to shift this table over to the wall.
10. The wall is shifting a couple of inches every year.
11. [shift your eyes/gaze] : She stared at him
12. then shifted her gaze to the suitcase on the bed.
13. None of the medicines I’ve taken have shifted this cold.
14. There’s still a stain on the carpet that I can’t shift.
15. The supermarkets shift more wine in a weekend than we do all year.