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shift key

shift key noun: the key on a typewriter used to select uppercase letters and certain special characters by physically moving the mechanism.

Noun

shift key (plural shift keys)

  1. The key on a typewriter used to select uppercase letters and certain special characters by physically moving the mechanism
  2. A key on a personal computer or terminal keyboard used to effect the same function, or to change the function of the function keys.

shift key meaning in Tamil

shift key in Tamil

மாற்று அழுத்தி

Forms of shift key

pluralshift keys

Origin of shift key

First use appears c. 1883 in the listing of U.S. Patents.

Questions about shift key

What does shift key mean?
Shift key means the key on a typewriter used to select uppercase letters and certain special characters by physically moving the mechanism.
What is shift key in Tamil?
Shift key in Tamil is மாற்று அழுத்தி. See Shift key meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is shift key?
Shift key is a noun.
What is the plural of shift key?
The plural of shift key is shift keys.

Words near shift key in the dictionary

  1. shift dresses
  2. shift gears
  3. shift ground
  4. shift in
  5. Shift JIS
  6. shift key
  7. shift keys
  8. shift lead
  9. shift leads
  10. shift lever
  11. shift levers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shift key (page history and authors); shift key (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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