undershift
/ˈʌndə(ɹ)ˌʃɪft/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An unfitted undergarment that covers the torso.
noun
The amount of displacement in the layers in a crystal lattice that places the layers too close together.
noun
A misalignment resulting from failure to shift gears far enough.
noun
A change that results in something being not being moved far enough or too few things being moved.
noun
An underhang caused by seismic shift.
verb
To undershoot when changing gears.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "She would make a tiny pocket in an undershift. Even boys wore undershifts, though theirs were shorter than the knee-length ones girls wore."
- "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."
- "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?"
- ""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."