Definition of Shifters

1. Noun. (plural of shifter) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shifters

1. shifter [n] - See also: shifter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shifters

shift key
shift keys
shift lever
shift register
shift to the left
shift to the right
shift work
shifta
shiftable
shiftas
shifted
shifted maxwellian
shiftee
shiftees
shifter
shifters (current term)
shiftful
shiftier
shiftiest
shiftily
shiftiness
shiftinesses
shifting
shifting cultivation
shifting dullness
shifting executory interest
shifting executory interests
shifting pacemaker
shiftingly
shiftings

Literary usage of Shifters

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1903)
"When the parts are in this relation, the opposite vertical movement of the two guides or shifters must evidently carry the spool carriers at one side of the ..."

2. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"... provided a priori ; but if the hue ami cry were once up, they •would show as fair a pair of hind-shifters as the experte«! loco-motor in the colony. ..."

3. The Modern Factory: Safety, Sanitation and Welfare by George Moses Price (1914)
"A great many attached and unattached belt shifters have been devised for the purpose of shifting the belt from one pulley to another without danger to the ..."

4. The Life of an Actor by Pierce Egan (1904)
"CHAPTER V The real Thing: a Prison Scene without Wings or Flats, but numerous shifters. PROTEUS in the Dumps. An Outline of a Fellow-prisoner. ..."

5. Experimental Electrical Engineering and Manual for Electrical Testing for by Vladimir Karapetoff (1922)
"Potential Phase-shifters. — A watt-hour meter which may be used on partly inductive loads must be tested for its accuracy of calibration at different values ..."

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