Changing in place, position, or direction; varying; variable; fickle; as, shifting winds; shifting opinions or principles.

continuously moving or changing from position or direction; "he drifted into the shifting crowd"; "their nervous shifting glances"

continuously varying; "taffeta with shifting colors"

the short movement or transfer of a vessel within a harbor or mooring area.

refers to movements or changing positions of cargo from one place to another - a dangerous situation at sea that can easily endanger the seaworthiness or cargo worthiness of the ship.

(of soil) unstable; "shifting sands"; "unfirm earth"

The process of physically moving books in the shelving collection in order to either accommodate the growing collection or to preserve the books by preventing constant fading by the sun, or moving collection items from one area to a new area.

the act of moving from one place to another; "his constant shifting disrupted the class"

the process of rearranging documents on the shelf in order to make room for new growth.

Adapted or used for shifting anything.

See Switching.