"shifter" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to a person or thing that can change quickly from one form to another, or something that can be changed for a different function. Example: "The shifter on the bicycle is used to change the gears."
The construction of a splendid museum at the foot of the Acropolis, purpose built to house the antiquities within view of the masterpiece that epitomises the Periclean age, was meant to be a debate shifter, more eloquent than any number of legal arguments.
Evidence for the use of the so-called flying machine, the mēchanē (Latin machina), in the 5th century is given in the comedies of Aristophanes; a character in his play Peace ascends to heaven on a dung beetle and appeals to the scene shifter not to let him fall.
I had been working as a scene shifter on the BBC show The Good Old Days to supplement my income, when I was approached about a new series, to be called Top of the Pops.
The Games constructors eventually carried the day, freeing up the puzzle vocabulary, if only a little ("bra" might now be clued as "Shape shifter," but "Two cupfuls of milk" would still be rejected).
The co-driver reaches the truck and opens the door and clambers in over the body slumped on the floor and, crouching over the body, he reaches and pushes the clutch to the floor with his hand and drops the shifter into first gear and reaches and releases the emergency brake.
Though hardly a powerhouse, that high-revving motor can be played to maximum effect by pushing the Sport button, which changes the throttle response, and by frequent use of the shifter.
Even as a diehard stick-shifter, the computerised twin-clutch automatic gearbox in the latest Porsche 911 is clearly far superior to the manual option.
An intrepid columnist in the Independent dared, as she put it, to incur "the wrath of Moses" by questioning the involvement of the "shape-shifter" Mr Abrahams and the others with a pro-Israel lobbying group.Britain's discomforted Jewish community has definitely noticed.
This is forcing HP, its arch rival, to redouble its efforts to be seen less as a box-shifter and more as a provider of "solutions".
A recent poll found that only 5% of Democrats would vote for Mr Gephardt in a primary election compared with the 46% who said they would vote for his fellow shape-shifter, Al Gore.The fact that Mr Gephardt has a hill to climb to win his party's nomination will not prevent him from doing political damage.
On the Indian internet, this CAG is an online shape-shifter.
