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preshift

preshift adjective: before a shift (in various senses).

Adjective

preshift (not comparable)

  1. Before a shift (in various senses).
    • The factory workers in Plant 2 would stop at Uncle Nancy’s for preshift pick-me-ups, and the executives at Maytag headquarters down the street would come for lunch.2007 October 7, Dan Barry, “Politicians, and a Town in Flux, Come Calling”, in New York Times

Verb

preshift (third-person singular simple present preshifts, present participle preshifting, simple past and past participle preshifted)

  1. (transitive) To shift in advance.
    • We preshifted the game sprites to avoid having to redraw them at different positions during gameplay.

Noun

preshift (plural preshifts)

  1. A shift performed in advance.
    • […] and the preshifts required to move the rectangle up one, right two or up one, left two.1983, Ken Williams, Bob Kernaghan, Lisa Kernaghan, Apple II Computer Graphics, page 156

Forms of preshift

Verb
third-person singular presentpreshifts
present participlepreshifting
past participlepreshifted
pastpreshifted
Noun
pluralpreshifts

Origin of preshift

From pre- + shift.

Questions about preshift

What does preshift mean?
Preshift means before a shift (in various senses).
What part of speech is preshift?
Preshift can be an adjective, a verb or a noun.

Words near preshift in the dictionary

  1. preshear
  2. presheath
  3. presheaths
  4. presheaves
  5. preshelter
  6. preshift
  7. preshifted
  8. preshifting
  9. preshifts
  10. preshipment
  11. preshipping

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