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Modulation :: Modulation (n.) A change of key, whether transient, or until the music becomes established in the new key; a shifting of the tonality of a piece, so that the harmonies all center upon a new keynote or tonic; the art of transition out of the original key into one nearly related, and so on, it may be, by successive changes, into a key quite remote. There are also sudden and unprepared modulations..

Shifting :: Shifting (a.) Changing in place, position, or direction; varying; variable; fickle; as, shifting winds; shifting opinions or principles..

Jibe :: "Jibe (v. i.) To change a ship's course so as to cause a shifting of the boom. See Jibe, v. t., and Gybe..

Core :: Core (n.) A miner's underground working time or shift.

Unshiftable :: Unshiftable (a.) That may /ot be shifted.

Whiffler :: Whiffler (n.) One who whiffles, or frequently changes his opinion or course; one who uses shifts and evasions in argument; hence, a trifler..

Shifter :: Shifter (n.) A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc..

Chemise :: Chemise (n.) A shift, or undergarment, worn by women..

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) The act of shifting.

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) To exchange for another of the same class; to remove and to put some similar thing in its place; to change; as, to shift the clothes; to shift the scenes..

Thimblerig :: Thimblerig (v. t.) To swindle by means of small cups or thimbles, and a pea or small ball placed under one of them and quickly shifted to another, the victim laying a wager that he knows under which cup it is; hence, to cheat by any trick..

Expedient :: Expedient (n.) Means devised in an exigency; shift.

Mucker :: Mucker (v. t.) To scrape together, as money, by mean labor or shifts..

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) The act of putting one thing in the place of another, or of changing the place of a thing; change; substitution..

Switched :: Switch (n.) A mechanical device for shifting an electric current to another circuit.

Shifter :: Shifter (n.) One who, or that which, shifts; one who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener..

Whiffle :: Whiffle (v. i.) To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about..

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) To change the place of; to move or remove from one place to another; as, to shift a burden from one shoulder to another; to shift the blame..

Dodge :: Dodge (v. t.) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place..

Switch :: Switch (v. t.) To shift to another circuit.

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