shifting
/ˈʃɪftɪŋ/ noun B2- A shift or change; a shifting movement.
- The phenomenon by which two or more constituents appearing on the same side of their common head exchange positions to obtain non-canonical order.
Plural shiftings
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This did not seem to encourage the witness at all: he kept shifting from one foot to the other, looking uneasily at the Queen, and in his confusion he bit a large piece out of his teacup instead of the bread-and-butter.
“That is why,” he said, shifting his paw on the leaves.
It grew darker and darker, till at last the dragging, shifting coils disappeared, but they could hear the rustle of the scales.
A bridge spanned it midway and from there to its lower end, where an amber-hued belt of sand-hills shut it in from the dark blue gulf beyond, the water was a glory of many shifting hues--the most spiritual shadings of crocus and rose and ethereal green, with other elusive tintings for which no name has ever been found.
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