Shift
Part of speech: noun
Definition: a type of women's undergarment, a slip a change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time an act of shifting; a slight movement or change the gear mechanism in a motor vehicle a button on a keyboard, chiefly for switching between upper and lower case a bit shift The infield shift.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To change, swap. to move from one place to another; to redistribute. to change position. To change gears (in a car). to remove the first value from an array. to dispose of. to hurry. to engage in sexual petting.
Example sentence: The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.
Displacement
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.The quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the displacing body.The process of extracting soluble substances from organic material and the like, whereby a quantity of saturated solvent is displaced, or removed, for another quantity of the solvent.Moving the target to avoid an attack; dodging.A vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component.
Example sentence: The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.