Sekirov Dictionary

undershift

/ˈʌndə(ɹ)ˌʃɪft/

noun 6
/ˌʌndə(ɹ)ˈʃɪft/ verb 4
forms 3

noun6

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An unfitted undergarment that covers the torso.
- She would make a tiny pocket in an undershift. Even boys wore undershifts, though theirs were shorter than the knee-length ones girls wore. — 2011
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The strategy or act of positioning defensive players extra far toward the offense's weak side.
- 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? — 1955
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The amount of displacement in the layers in a crystal lattice that places the layers too close together.
- 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). — 1983
A misalignment resulting from failure to shift gears far enough.
A change that results in something being not being moved far enough or too few things being moved.
•
An underhang caused by seismic shift.
- The forming of shifts and undershifts is activated by frequent quakes. — 1964

undershift

/ˌʌndə(ɹ)ˈʃɪft/

verb4

•
To position defensive players too far in a particular direction.
- If they are in doubt just where they should go, they should always overshift rather than undershift. — 1930
•
To undershoot when changing gears.
- Since it is easy to undershift or overshift, each lever must be adjusted manually to its optimal position on the cog or chainring. — 1990
•
To move too small an amount or not to move something far enough.
- The use of the incorrect factor resulted in an undershift to ERAF. — 1998
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To raise the price to consumers by less than an underlying cost increase that results from rising taxes.
- Concavity of demand leads to undershifting and sufficient convexity to overshifting. — 1995

forms

undershifted · undershifting · undershifts

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