the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Changing in place, position, or direction; varying; variable; fickle.
adj. Adapted or used for shifting anything.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A moving or removal; change from one place, position, or state to another; change.
n. Recourse to shifts, or petty expedients; artifice; shift.
Changing; changeable or changeful; varying; unstable: as, shifting winds.
Shifty.
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adj. (of soil) unstable
adj. changing position or direction
n. the act of moving from one place to another
adj. continuously varying
Word Usage
"Except it looked to me like he was watching something, his own collapsing infrastructure perhaps, his expression shifting between blankness and surprise."