undershift
An unfitted undergarment that covers the torso.
Noun
- An unfitted undergarment that covers the torso.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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, Sheri S. Tepper, The Waters Rising, →ISBN:
- 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, Robert C. MacKenzie, Football Scouting, page 54:
- "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. - 1976, Jack T. Clary, The Gamemakers, page 185:
- In an overshift or undershift the spacing of the linemen should be over one "full man" from the normal. - 1949, Herbert Orin Crisler, Modern football: fundamentals and strategy, page 193:
- 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, Leslie Michaels, Seymour S. Chissick, R....
- 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 =...
- A misalignment resulting from failure to shift gears far enough.
- 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...
- 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, Bhabesh Chandra Roy, Report of the twenty-second session, India, 1964:
Origin
From under- + shift.
Forms
Verb
- 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, Edward Dana Caulkins, Intimate Talks with Great Coaches, page 57:
- 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, Robert C. MacKenzie, Football Scouting, page 54:
- In addition, overshifting to one side and undershifting to the other may be used as a defensive plan to meet personnel or field problems. - 1962, David M. Nelson, Football; Principles and Play, page 39:
- 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, Norman D. Ford, Keep on pedaling: the complete guide to adult bicycling, page...
- 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, State of California Property Tax Apportionments Calendar Year 1997:
- 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, Gareth D. Myles, Public Economics, →ISBN, page 363:
- However, according to Kay and Keen (1991), neither undershifting of both taxes, nor overshifting of both, is a plausible scenario under the quality model. - 2003, Public Relations Review: A Journal of Research and...
- Whether this indirect effect causes an overshifting or undershifting of price depends upon the level of spillovers. - 2007, Patrick W. Barnes, Economic Perspectives on Innovation and Invention, →ISBN, page 34: