The difference between Hasten and Shift

When used as verbs, hasten means to move or act in a quick fashion, whereas shift means to change, swap.

Shift is also noun with the meaning: a type of women's undergarment, a slip.

check bellow for the other definitions of Hasten and Shift

  1. Hasten as a verb (intransitive):

    To move or act in a quick fashion.

  2. Hasten as a verb (transitive):

    To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker.

  3. Hasten as a verb (transitive):

    To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier.

  1. Shift as a noun (historical):

    A type of women's undergarment, a slip.

    Examples:

    "Just last week she bought a new shift at the market."

  2. Shift as a noun:

    A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.

    Examples:

    "We'll work three shifts a day till the job's done."

  3. Shift as a noun:

    An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.

    Examples:

    "There was a shift in the political atmosphere."

  4. Shift as a noun (US):

    The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.

    Examples:

    "Does it come with a stick-shift?"

  5. Shift as a noun:

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    Examples:

    "If you press shift-P, the preview display will change."

  6. Shift as a noun (computing):

    A bit shift.

  7. Shift as a noun (baseball):

    The infield shift.

    Examples:

    "Teams often use the shift against this lefty."

  8. Shift as a noun (Ireland, crude, _, slang, often with the definite article, usually, _, uncountable):

    The act of kissing passionately.

  9. Shift as a noun (archaic):

    A contrivance, device to try when other methods fail.

  10. Shift as a noun (archaic):

    A trick, an artifice.

  11. Shift as a noun:

    In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.

  12. Shift as a noun (mining):

    A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.

  13. Shift as a noun (genetics):

    A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.

  1. Shift as a verb (transitive):

    To change, swap.

  2. Shift as a verb (transitive):

    To move from one place to another; to redistribute.

    Examples:

    "We'll have to shift these boxes to the downtown office."

  3. Shift as a verb (intransitive):

    To change position.

    Examples:

    "She shifted slightly in her seat."

    "His political stance shifted daily."

  4. Shift as a verb (obsolete, transitive):

    To change (one's clothes); also to change (someone's) underclothes.

  5. Shift as a verb (intransitive):

    To change gears (in a car).

    Examples:

    "I crested the hill and shifted into fifth."

  6. Shift as a verb (typewriters):

    To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.

  7. Shift as a verb (computer keyboards):

    To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.

  8. Shift as a verb (transitive, computing):

    To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.

    Examples:

    "'Shifting 1001 to the left yields 10010; shifting it right yields 100."

  9. Shift as a verb (transitive, computing):

    To remove the first value from an array.

  10. Shift as a verb (transitive):

    To dispose of.

    Examples:

    "How can I shift a grass stain?"

  11. Shift as a verb (intransitive):

    To hurry.

    Examples:

    "If you shift, you might make the 2:19."

  12. Shift as a verb (Ireland, vulgar, slang):

    To engage in sexual petting.

  13. Shift as a verb (archaic):

    To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.

  14. Shift as a verb:

    To practice indirect or evasive methods.

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