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Main Entry: shift
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: switch, fluctuation

Synonyms:

about-face, alteration, bend, change, changeover, conversion, deflection, deviation, displacement, double, fault, modification, move, passage, permutation, rearrangement, removal, shifting, substitution, tack, transfer, transference, transformation, transit, translocation, turn, variation, veering, yaw

Antonyms:

deactivation, maintenance, stagnation
Main Entry: shift
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: trick, stratagem

Synonyms:

artifice, contrivance, craft, device, dodge, equivocation, evasion, expediency, expedient, gambit, hoax, makeshift, maneuver, move, ploy, recourse, refuge, resort, resource, ruse, stopgap, strategy, substitute, subterfuge, wile
Main Entry: shift
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: time served doing work

Synonyms:

bout, go, period, spell, stint, time, tour, trick, turn, working time
Main Entry: shift
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: switch, fluctuate

Synonyms:

about-face, alter, blow hot and cold, bottom out, budge, change, change gears, cook*, deviate, dial back, dislocate, displace, disturb, do up, drift, exchange, fault, flip-flop, hem and haw, move, move around, move over, rearrange, recalibrate, relocate, remove, replace, reposition, ship, shuffle, slip, stir, substitute, swap places, swerve, switch over, tack, transfer, transmogrify, transpose, turn, turn around, turn the corner, turn the tables, vacillate, vary, veer, waffle, yo-yo

Antonyms:

deactivate, remain, stagnate
Main Entry: adaptation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: act of adapting

Synonyms:

adjustment, adoption, alteration, conversion, modification, refitting, remodeling, reworking, shift, transformation, variation
Main Entry: alter
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: change

Synonyms:

adapt, adjust, amend, change, convert, cook, correct mid-course, develop, dial back, diversify, doctor, fine tune, make different, metamorphose, modify, mutate, phony up, recalibrate, recast, reconstruct, refashion, reform, remodel, renovate, reshape, revamp, revise, shift, transform, transmute, turn, vary

Antonyms:

continue, fix, keep, let stand, maintain, preserve, remain, retain, sustain
Main Entry: alteration
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: change

Synonyms:

about-face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, amendment, conversion, correction, difference, diversification, exchange, fixing, flip-flop, metamorphosis, mid-course correction, modification, mutation, reformation, remodeling, reshaping, revision, shift, switch, switch-over, transformation, transmutation, turn, variance, variation
Main Entry: alternate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: take turns, change back and forth

Synonyms:

act reciprocally, alter, blow hot and cold, change, come and go, exchange, fill in for, fluctuate, follow, follow in turn, interchange, intersperse, oscillate, relieve, rotate, seesaw, shift, shilly-shally, substitute, sway, vacillate, vary, waver, yo-yo
Notes: alternate means 'one after the other' or 'each succeeding the other in turn, especially continuously' and alternative means 'one instead of the other' or 'allowing or necessitating a choice between two or more things'

Antonyms:

continue
Main Entry: become
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: evolve into

Synonyms:

alter to, assume form of, be converted to, be reduced to, be reformed, be remodeled, be transformed into, change into, come, come to be, convert, develop into, emerge as, eventually be, grow into, incline, mature, metamorphose, pass into, ripen into, shift, turn into, turn out, wax
Main Entry: bend
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: curve

Synonyms:

angle, arc, bending, bow, corner, crook, curvation, curvature, deflection, deviation, flection, flexure, hook, lean, loop, round, sag, shift, tack, tilt, turn, twist, yaw, zigzag

Antonyms:

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