What's the difference between budge and shift?

Budge


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To move off; to stir; to walk away.
  • (v.) Brisk; stirring; jocund.
  • (n.) A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on; -- used formerly as an edging and ornament, esp. of scholastic habits.
  • (a.) Lined with budge; hence, scholastic.
  • (a.) Austere or stiff, like scholastics.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Del Bosque had listened to the criticism, all that stuff about it being a negative tactic, and decided not to budge an inch, and who can blame him?
  • (2) On Thursday, conservative analyst Ross Douthat wrote: “A party whose leading factions often seemed incapable of budging from 1980s-era dogma suddenly caved completely.” On Friday, former top Barack Obama strategist David Axelrod tweeted : “The Day After: seems as if @GOP establishment is measuring @realDonaldTrump as a moldable vessel.
  • (3) The government would also be making a big call if it refused to budge because it would risk having to negotiate with the disparate group of crossbench senators to salvage the deal, a difficult proposition on such a significant trade agreement.
  • (4) With the Swedish courts last month rejecting an attempt by Assange's lawyers to quash the warrant for his arrest, Britain continuing to insist he will be arrested the instant he steps foot outside the building and the Australian refusing to budge, the situation has now reached political and legal deadlock.
  • (5) And we won't budge a single centimetre from Ukrainian land.
  • (6) You can see by this handy income-distribution chart that over the past 44 years, middle-class incomes have barely budged .
  • (7) Earlier this year its popularity barely budged when it tried to reform the constitutional court in moves that critics including the European Union said undermined democratic standards.
  • (8) His habit of refusing to budge until he felt a song was absolutely right infuriated some, but guaranteed that he rarely turned in disappointing work.
  • (9) ‘He doesn’t budge in what he thinks even if he has to give way – he just gets irritable.’ Cameron sees their opposition as a problem to be handled, not as an occasion to stand in another’s shoes.
  • (10) Budge Wells, a Conservative councillor, has called a meeting of the executive of the Mid Bedfordshire Conservative Association to be held this week to discuss the implications of Dorries having the whip suspended .
  • (11) I have already engaged lawyers, written to the PM and met Jo Johnson, minister of state for universities and science – and at every stage the government has pig-headedly refused to budge.
  • (12) Tory MPs in 71 marginal seats at risk from cuts to tax credits Read more The Treasury and No 10 are insisting that they will not budge and will press ahead with their plan to slash tax credits from next April.
  • (13) The Liberal Democrats' election manifesto retained the party's long-standing commitment to scrapping tuition fees, and for most Lib Dem MPs it is a matter on which they will not budge.
  • (14) Murray earned $1.9m (£1.1m) for his maiden major victory to go with career earnings of $21.5m (£13.4m) and is worth £24m through endorsements and prize-money; Perry turned pro after beating Budge and made much more through his famous shirts than he ever did with a tennis racket.
  • (15) President, you got your tax increase' The Republicans aren't budging on taxes.
  • (16) In a meeting on 2 February, just over a month before Green sold BHS to Chappell, Paul Budge, the finance director of Green’s retail business Arcadia, and Neville Kahn, a partner at Deloitte, told Martin that Green was unlikely to agree to take part in the pension regulator’s long-requested moral hazard review unless he was compelled to do so.
  • (17) For much of Friday, they refused to budge, turning away offers of water, fruits and sweets and shouting “No food!
  • (18) This is a diplomatic dance which is likely to go on for some years, with both sides making all the right faces while knowing the other will not budge.
  • (19) And the Senate refused to budge, stripping out the healthcare section and booting the legislation back.
  • (20) But the MP added: "This issue of course is visceral for many colleagues who will probably not budge."

Shift


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To divide; to distribute; to apportion.
  • (v. t.) To change the place of; to move or remove from one place to another; as, to shift a burden from one shoulder to another; to shift the blame.
  • (v. t.) To change the position of; to alter the bearings of; to turn; as, to shift the helm or sails.
  • (v. t.) To exchange for another of the same class; to remove and to put some similar thing in its place; to change; as, to shift the clothes; to shift the scenes.
  • (v. t.) To change the clothing of; -- used reflexively.
  • (v. t.) To put off or out of the way by some expedient.
  • (v. t.) The act of shifting.
  • (v. t.) The act of putting one thing in the place of another, or of changing the place of a thing; change; substitution.
  • (v. t.) Something frequently shifted; especially, a woman's under-garment; a chemise.
  • (v. t.) The change of one set of workmen for another; hence, a spell, or turn, of work; also, a set of workmen who work in turn with other sets; as, a night shift.
  • (v. t.) In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
  • (v. t.) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
  • (v. t.) A change of the position of the hand on the finger board, in playing the violin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At 36 h postsurgery, RBCs were examined by 23Na-NMR by using dysprosium tripolyphosphate as a chemical shift reagent.
  • (2) Changes in cardiac adenosine triphosphate (ATP), phosphocreatine (PCr) and inorganic phosphate (Pi) were followed and intracellular pH (pHi) was estimated from the chemical shift of Pi.
  • (3) Both condemn the treatment of Ibrahim, whose supposed offence appears to have shifted over time, from fabricating a defamatory story to entering a home without permission to misleading an interviewee for an article that was never published.
  • (4) When Sprague-Dawley-S9 or Wistar-S9 were used for activation, the enhancement of IQ mutagenesis by tryptamine shifted to inhibition at tryptamine concentrations > 40 microM, with Sprague-Dawley-S9, and > 20 microM, with Wistar-S9.
  • (5) In a control study an inert stereoisomer, d-propranolol, did not block the ocular dominance shift.
  • (6) However, a highly significant upward shift of the proliferating cell compartment was observed in the cancer group, resulting in a specific modification of the [3H]TDR labeling pattern in 6 of 17 specimens.
  • (7) This transient paresis was accompanied by a dramatic fall in the MFCV concomitant with a shift of the power spectrum to the lower frequencies.
  • (8) These results indicate that during IPPV the increased Pcv attenuates the pressure gradient for venous return and decreases CO and that the compensatory increase in Psf is caused by a blood shift from unstressed to stressed blood volume.
  • (9) Sequence specific binding of protein extracts from 13 different yeast species to three oligonucleotide probes and two points mutants derived from Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA binding proteins were tested using mobility shift assays.
  • (10) The method is implemented with a digital non-causal (zero-phase shift) filter, based on the convolution with a finite impulse response, to make the computation time compatible with the use of low-cost microcomputers.
  • (11) Noise exposure and demographic data applicable to the United States, and procedures for predicting noise-induced permanent threshold shift (NIPTS) and nosocusis, were used to account for some 8.7 dB of the 13.4 dB average difference between the hearing levels at high frequencies for otologically and noise screened versus unscreened male ears; (this average difference is for the average of the hearing levels at 3000, 4000, and 6000 Hz, average for the 10th, 50th, and 90th percentiles, and ages 20-65 years).
  • (12) In the process, the DfE's definition of extremism has shifted from actual bomb-throwers to religious conservatives.
  • (13) Volume measurements were made in 26 patients to determine tissue loss and volume shifting by ROI.
  • (14) The data collection scheme for the scanner uses multiple rotations of a linearly shifted, asymmetric fan beam permitting user-defined variable resolution.
  • (15) Immediately prior to and at maximal workloads, carbon monoxide shifted into extravascular spaces and returned to the vascular space within five minutes after exercise stopped.
  • (16) While the correlations between speed and accuracy reversed over time, the abnormal vision group began and ended at the most extreme levels, having undergone a significantly more radical shift in this regard.
  • (17) Within the high-SR or medium-SR groups, the fibers with the lowest thresholds had the largest threshold shifts.
  • (18) NPR reported that investigators have not found telltale signs associated with Islamist radicalization , such as a change in mosques or abrupt shifts in behavior or family associations.
  • (19) Of the 88 evening-shift cardiac arrests during this time, one specific nurse (Nurse 14) was the care giver for 57 (65%).
  • (20) Moments later, explosive charges blasted free two tungsten blocks, to shift the balance of the probe so it could fly itself to a prearranged landing spot .