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n. One who, or that which, shifts or changes.

n. One who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener.

n. An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.

n. An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.

n. A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.

n. A component used by the rider to control the gearing mechanisms and select the desired gear ratio, usually connected to the derailleur by a mechanical actuation cable.

n. One who, or that which, shifts; one who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener.

n. An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.

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n. An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.

n. A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.

n. A foreman responsible for the work on one shift in one area, as in one heading{4}.

n. One who shifts or changes: as, a scene -shifter.

n. Nautical, a person employed to assist the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.

n. A contrivance used in shifting.

n. One who is given to change; a fickle person; also, one who resorts to petty shifts or expedients; one who practises artifice; a dodger; a trickster; a cozener.

n. a stagehand responsible for moving scenery

n. a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears

"But even with the other units 'longer cords, having to drape them all the way along the console, across the cupholders and the shifter is an unnecessary inconvenience."

stage technician    stagehand    mechanical device   

car-truck shifter   

cozener   

drifter    lifter    snifter    swifter   

shifters    selector    comparator    multitasking    gearchange    deerstalker    doubler    crossover    revamp    thirty-six-year-old