Synonyms:
shifting
Meaning: continuously varying; "taffeta with shifting colors"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
shift, shifting
Meaning: the act of moving from one place to another; "his constant shifting disrupted the class"
Usage examples
It is not one of the casual and shifting forms of speech produced by nomad races.
I felt my centre of gravity shifting its place, and giddiness mounting into my brain like drunkenness.
The changes made by some actions (those which by contrast may be called mechanical) are external; they are shifting things about.
There is but such a quantity of merit between them; just enough to make one good sort of man; and of late it has been shifting about pretty much.
All down the long brown seats members were shifting and arranging themselves more decorously, uncrossing their legs, slipping their hats beneath the leather fringes.
Here, amidst the shifting rivers in early times, the agriculturists may have learned to control and distribute the water supply by utilizing dried-up beds of streams to irrigate the land.
And yet, with a shifting of the scene, she was once more in the Harley Street drawing-room, talking to him as of old, and still with a consciousness all the time that she had seen him killed by that terrible fall.
The vault that spanned the space above, the sky, if it could be called so, seemed composed of vast plains of cloud, shifting and variable vapours, which by their condensation must at certain times fall in torrents of rain.
She saw the terrible sea which she had crossed to come to him--the white-crested waves, with turquoise lights and indigo depths, shifting and sliding unceasingly where all the world seemed swallowed in space, and the huge steamship so small a thing in the vast and perilous deep; and now--now she was here.
Rows of plants in pots, ranged on the balustrade between the pilasters of the arches, screened the corredor with their leaves and flowers from the quadrangle below, whose paved space is the true hearthstone of a South American house, where the quiet hours of domestic life are marked by the shifting of light and shadow on the flagstones.