undershift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌndə(ɹ)ˌʃɪft/
ipa: /ˌʌndə(ɹ)ˈʃɪft/
Forms: form: undershifts
Etymology: From under- + shift.
Senses: examples: text: The statement of Abeng and Tucdaden that when they buried the cadaver, this only had on an undershift and drawers (camiseta-calsoncillo), without uniform, nor boots, nor cap, nor other pieces of adornment, which is duly confirmed by the testimonies of the other witnesses and by the reports of the war correspondents who where present in the battle.
ref: 1985, Isaac C. Cruz, General Gregorio H. Del Pilar: Idol of the Revolution, page 137:
text: She took the candle from him and placed it upon the desk, moving with measured grace, as a young girl might before her lover, a flowing, dancing motional set, allowing the undershift to swirl about her, and standing afterward so that the light from the candle would shine through the undershift, suggesting much and revealing nothing.
ref: 2006, M. A. Foster, The Book of The Ler, →ISBN:
text: She would make a tiny pocket in an undershift. Even boys wore undershifts, though theirs were shorter than the knee-length ones girls wore.
ref: 2011, Sheri S. Tepper, The Waters Rising, →ISBN:
text: There was Sister Marie, who had cried for her lord father, and Sister Custance, who had forgotten to wear an undershift and was sent back to the dormitory to dress properly.
ref: 2014, Marion Meade, Stealing Heaven: The Love Story of Heloise and Abelard, →ISBN:
glosses: An unfitted undergarment that covers the torso.
examples: text: Do they employ an undershift? Overshift? If they do undershift or overshift the line, is it a half-man or full-man over- shift or undershift?
ref: 1955, Robert C. MacKenzie, Football Scouting, page 54:
text: "Everyone who plays four linemen ends up in an overshift or undershift," says Phillips, "and that makes the same alignment we're playing to start with.
ref: 1976, Jack T. Clary, The Gamemakers, page 185:
text: In an overshift or undershift the spacing of the linemen should be over one "full man" from the normal.
ref: 1949, Herbert Orin Crisler, Modern football: fundamentals and strategy, page 193:
topics: hobbies
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glosses: The strategy or act of positioning defensive players extra far toward the offense's weak side.
examples: text: The protruding basal oxygens are themselves displaced slightly in the x-direction so that the shift required is either 0.4 + δÅ (overshift) or 0.4 -δ Å (undershift).
ref: 1983, Leslie Michaels, Seymour S. Chissick, R. Derricott, Asbestos, properties, applications, and hazards, →ISBN, page 114:
text: In the structure of chrysotile 2M_(c1) illustrated in Figure 7.6 is approximately 0.1 Å, and so overshift is 0.5 Å and the undershift is 0.3 Å, occurring in successive layers to produce a two-layer unit cell with B = 93.3°.
ref: 1988, Sturges W. Bailey, Reviews in Mineralogy - Volume 19, page 105:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The amount of displacement in the layers in a crystal lattice that places the layers too close together.
examples: text: Briefly, in the invention, the shift mechanism is incorporated into the handlebar stem, a positive push-pull type cam mechanism is provided for actuating the rear derailleur, undershift and overshift is prevented to eliminate chain "jump off", and the device can be shifted with the bicycle standing still.
ref: 1981, H Ross, Single lever 10-speed bicycle shifter - US Patent 4,279,174:
topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A misalignment resulting from failure to shift gears far enough.
glosses: A change that results in something being not being moved far enough or too few things being moved.
examples: text: The forming of shifts and undershifts is activated by frequent quakes.
ref: 1964, Bhabesh Chandra Roy, Report of the twenty-second session, India, 1964:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An underhang caused by seismic shift.