| 单词 | to shift shapes |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto shift shapes a. transitive. To change, to replace by another of the kind. With plural object: To quit one and take another of (the things indicated). Obsolete exc. (somewhat archaic) with object a quality or appearance, as to shift shapes. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change [verb (transitive)] wharvec897 wendOE i-wendeOE awendOE aturn?c1225 biwrixle?c1225 changec1225 turnc1225 shifta1325 vary1340 inchangea1382 strange1390 altera1398 alterate?a1425 permute?a1425 difference1481 renewc1515 alienate1534 wrixlec1540 to chop and change1557 variate1566 palter1587 permutate1598 immute1613 unmake1616 unsame1632 chop1644 veer1647 variegatea1690 refract1700 mutabilatea1704 commute1825 stranger1863 switch1919 the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > substitute [verb (transitive)] changec1225 shifta1325 puta1400 underputc1400 put1483 put1535 subrogate1548 substitute1548 surrogate1586 counterchange1604 supplya1618 suffect1620 commute1667 succeed1667 to be in (another person's) shoes1842 sub1919 a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1732 Ten siðes ðus binnen .vi. ger Shiftede iacob hirdenesse her. 1545 Act 37 Hen. VIII c. 9, §5 The wares..so bargayned, solde, eschaunged or shifted. 1618 G. Chapman tr. Hesiod Georgicks ii. 517 The shamelesse Man shifts friends still with his place. 1667 S. Pepys Diary 3 Oct. (1974) VIII. 460 There stayed..till he shifted his horses. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 141 Having shifted ev'ry Form to scape, Convinc'd of Conquest, he resum'd his shape. View more context for this quotation 1765 T. Hutchinson Hist. Colony Massachusets-Bay, 1628–91 (ed. 2) ii. 212 How many times did..the clergy..change or shift their opinions? 1864 Ld. Tennyson Voyage v The peaky islet shifted shapes. < as lemmas |
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