单词	shifter
释义	shifter /ˈʃɪftə / noun [usually in combination] 1A person or thing that shifts something: each morning the rock-shifters travel by donkey cart to start work... Any successful rugby team needs piano players, the backs who can string together a melody of angles and passes, and piano shifters, the forwards who do the heavy lifting, shifting and carrying. Overall, the van's make-over keeps it up to pace with the rest of the combi pack - none enjoying clear superiority over the others as load shifters. Setting up teams of helpers who can act, for example, as messengers, furniture shifters, hot drinks and meal providers and counsellors for those affected by an emergency. 2North American A gearbox of a motor vehicle or a set of gear levers on a bicycle: a new, improved five-speed shifter... Magnesium is used in the steering column and gear shifter paddles. During one of the mountain stages, I saw an old-school front derailleur downtube shifter on Lance's bike, and then in a later stage, I saw one on Ullrich's bike. On the front derailleur shifter, the indexing cog appears to be exposed by design underneath the brake lever handle. Rhymes drifter, grifter, lifter, sifter, snifter, uplifter
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