Entertainment / Literature / Functional Shift: The linguistic equivalent of poetic anthimeria, in which one part of grammatical speech becomes another. An especially common type of functional shift in everyday grammar is taking a noun and treating it as an adjective. For instance, we might take the noun clay and use it to modify another noun like statue, resulting in a clay statue. Functional shift has been a rich source of new word usages in English--especially in the Renaissance, however, many traditionalists today frown on function shifts, insisting dialogue and e-mail are nouns not verbs, and so on.
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Functional Verb Synonyms: working, operating, operational, running, going
Functional Noun Synonyms: utilitarian,eful, serviceable, practical, practicable, functioning, working, essential, important, effective
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Shift Verb Synonyms: sell, market, move
Shift Noun Synonyms: move, change position, edge, budge, relocate, rearrange, transpose, switch
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Business / Finance / Parallel Shift In The Yield Curve: A shift in economic conditions in which the change in the interest rate on all maturities is the same number of basis points. In other words, if the three month T-bill increases 100 basis points (one MORE
Technology / Home Audio / Phase Shift: The fraction of a complete cycle elapsed as measured from a specified reference point and expressed as an angle. 2. Out of phase in an un-synchronized or un-correlated way. MORE
Business / Finance / Nonparallel Shift In The Yield Curve: A shift in the yield curve in which yields do not change by the same number of basis points for every maturity. Related: Parallel shift in the yield curve. MORE