overshift
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌʃɪft/
ipa: /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈʃɪft/
Forms: form: overshifts
form: overshifting
form: overshifted
form: overshifted
Etymology: From over- + shift.
Senses: examples: text: In addition, overshifting to one side and undershifting to the other may be used as a defensive plan to meet personnel or field problems.
ref: 1962, David M. Nelson, Football; Principles and Play, page 39:
text: At times the defense will overshift because of anxiousness, aggressiveness, or anticipation. Emphasis on the passing option available will diagnose in what position and situation on the floor that the defense has a tendency to overshift.
ref: 1973, Richard W. Harvey, Coaching Basketball's Multiple Set Zone Offense, page 123:
text: On the screen we have seen Detroit shift to a Frisco defense, in which they overshift the two tackles and the end toward our flanker.
ref: 2014, Vince Lombardi, Run to Daylight!, →ISBN:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To position defensive players too far in a particular direction.
examples: text: The objects of the invention are to automatically throw off the power and to apply the brake in such a manner that it will have no tendency to produce too sudden a stop or to overshift and release before the car has stopped.
ref: 1905, Specifications and Drawings of Patents Issued from the United States Patent Office for January 1905:
text: Back off second speed, overshift stop screw slightly, and determine that speed poppet is seated in notch.
ref: 1971, Chilton's Auto Repair Manual, 1940-1953, page 624:
text: Shift down rapidly to the smallest rear cog. The chain must not overshift so it rubs on the spokes or on the spoke protector as you shift up
ref: 1991, Eugene A. Sloane, Sloane's Complete Book of All-terrain Bicycles, →ISBN, page 39:
topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To overshoot when changing gears.
examples: text: But I think there is this tendency to overshift the responsibility with this doctrine, and that is my genuine concern and why I could not agree to go along with it.
ref: 1965, Maine Legislature, Legislative Record - Volume 2, page 2423:
text: Usually a beginner overshifts just as a beginning driver oversteers an automible for the first few times.
ref: 1978, Burton Stanley, Instrument Repair for the Music Teacher, →ISBN, page 58:
text: Thus, the expansionary fiscal policy overshifts aggregate demand to AD2 rather than ADQ.
ref: 2003, The British Herpetological Society Bulletin, page 277:
text: Hip OA is associated with an antalgic gait, one in which the patient overshifts the weight while walking to reduce the pain.
ref: 2014, Marc C. Hochberg, Alan J. Silman, Josef S. Smolen, Rheumatology, →ISBN, page 1451:
glosses: To move too great an amount or move something too far.
examples: text: Concavity of demand leads to undershifting and sufficient convexity to overshifting.
ref: 1995, Gareth D. Myles, Public Economics, →ISBN, page 363:
text: However, according to Kay and Keen (1991), neither undershifting of both taxes, nor overshifting of both, is a plausible scenario under the quality model.
ref: 2003, Public Relations Review: A Journal of Research and Comment:
text: Whether this indirect effect causes an overshifting or undershifting of price depends upon the level of spillovers.
ref: 2007, Patrick W. Barnes, Economic Perspectives on Innovation and Invention, →ISBN, page 34:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: To raise the price to consumers by more than an underlying cost increase that results from rising taxes.
examples: text: We presume it to be a plant requiring to be grown in peat earth, and :to have the pots in which it is, grown well and carefully drained of superfluous water; and we should further suppose it undesirable to overshift it, especially while young, and in an unestablished condition.
ref: 1849, Annals of Horticulture - Volume 4, page 155:
text: Particular care must be taken not to overshift such kinds as E. tricolor and its varieties, retorta, Hartnellii, &c. During their progress in growth, attention must be given to train and form the plants as may be desired.
ref: 1852, The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florists' Magazine - Volume 20, page 34:
topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: To replant or repot too soon or too often.