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Plural of shifter

regular plural

The plural of shifter is shifters.

Forms of shifter

Singularshifter
Pluralshifters
Countablecountable

Shifters in a sentence

  • You need to take up the slack in your cables so shifters and brakes function properly.1996, Dave King, Michael Kaminer, The Mountain Bike Experience. From the entry take up the slack
  • These alternatives are the eels and white snakes, the flying warriors and grannies, the shape shifters and state topplers.1999, Victoria Baldwin Cass, Dangerous Women: Warriors, Grannies, and Geishas of the Ming. From the entry toppler
  • In larger systems, total system power may be reduced by placing data and address level shifters in unaccessed modules in a low-dissipation condition.1972, Electronic Design, volume 20, page 90. From the entry unaccessed

Meaning of shifter

  1. noun One who, or that which, shifts or changes.
  2. noun A word whose meaning changes depending on the situation, as by deixis.
  3. noun Someone who plays tricks; a trickster.

Full definition of shifter

Questions about the plural of shifter

What is the plural of shifter?
The plural of shifter is shifters.
Is shifter countable?
Shifter is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shifter (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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