gearshift, gearstick, shifter, gear lever
(noun) a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears; “in Britain they call a gearshift a gear lever”
sceneshifter, shifter
(noun) a stagehand responsible for moving scenery
Source: WordNet® 3.1
shifter (plural shifters)
One who, or that which, shifts or changes.
(linguistics) A word whose meaning changes depending on the situation, as by deixis.
(dated) One who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener.
(nautical) An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.
(engineering) An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.
(engineering, textiles) A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.
(cycling) 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.
A spanner with an adjustable jaw size.
(mining, historical) A person employed to repair the horseways and other passages, and keep them unobstructed.
(US, Pennsylvania) A switcher or shunter: a railroad locomotive used for shunting.
(mythology, science fiction, fantasy) A shape-shifter, or a person or other being capable of changing their physical form.
(erotica) A genre of erotica focusing on lycanthropes or other shapeshifters, such as werewolves.
• (shapeshifter): See shape-shifter.
• reshift
Source: Wiktionary
Shift"er, n.
1. One who, or that which, shifts; one who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener. 'T was such a shifter that, if truth were known, Death was half glad when he had got him down. Milton.
2. (Naut.)
Definition: An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.
3. (Mach.) (a) An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another. (b) (Knitting Mach.) A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
8 April 2025
(adjective) pleasingly persuasive or intended to persuade; “a coaxing and obsequious voice”; “her manner is quiet and ingratiatory and a little too agreeable”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.