The phrase "a shift of weight" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a change in balance or pressure, often in contexts related to physical movement or posture.
Example: "As she prepared to jump, she felt a shift of weight that helped her launch into the air."
Alternatives: "a change in balance" or "a redistribution of weight."
Then along comes another performer in another work, and the merest detail — a step, a shift of weight — becomes galvanizing, intoxicating.
A sophisticated horse, used to the delicate physical language of an expert rider, expects a shift of weight in the saddle and slight pressure from a leg to mean something.
I want to make use of communication through body language as often as I can since in real life we often subconsciously pick up on cues about another's mood by a shift of weight or tightening around the eyes.
Rim said this would have raised the Sewol's center of gravity and could have made it more vulnerable to tipping over in the event of a shift of weight.
Still, differences in comparisons between those groups at the end of treatment resulted in only 8 units of pain reduction on a 0 100 scale, which might partly come from a shift of weights in this analysis.
A shift of body weight toward the noninflamed hindpaw was again most prominent in saline-treated animals, only gradually normalizing until day 21.
Catastrophe – or at least scrambled eggs – is only a misjudged shift of weight or a mistimed balance away.
Against a background of pure colour and song, the tale begins with a shoal of dancers and peaks as one character, the Messenger, communicates with a spotlit, upturned palm and a slight shift of weight.
In contrast to untreated Avicel, a shift of the molecular weight distributions to lower molecular weights during enzymatic hydrolysis was observed for untreated α-cellulose and Sigmacell.
Other than the hydrolysis of untreated Avicel, the hydrolysis of Avicel regenerated from ionic liquids in Figure 2b resulted in a shift of the molecular weight distributions to lower molecular weights and a reduction of the M w by 37% at a conversion of only 26%.
Using the design effect of 2.5, we have 89.7% power to detect a shift of 0.2 in weight-for-age and length-for-age z scores, assuming a within-randomized cluster variance of 1.25.
