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Shuffle
Definitions
- 1 The act of mixing cards or mah-jong tiles so as to randomize them.
"He made a real mess of the last shuffle."
- 2 walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet wordnet
- 3 The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player.
- 4 the act of mixing cards haphazardly wordnet
- 5 An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.
"The sad young girl left with a tired shuffle."
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- 6 A rhythm commonly used in blues music, consisting of a series of triplet notes with the middle note missing, so that it sounds like a long note followed by a short note, and suggests a walker dragging one foot. broadly
- 7 A dance move in which the foot is scuffed back and forth across the floor.
- 8 A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
"The Gifts of Nature are beyond all the Shams and Shuffles in the World."
- 1 To put in a random order. ambitransitive
"Don't forget to shuffle the cards."
- 2 mix so as to make a random order or arrangement wordnet
- 3 To change; modify the order of something.
"But, rather than make a change up front, Hughes shuffled his defence for this match, replacing Carlos Salcido with Baird, in a move which few would have predicted would prove decisive."
- 4 walk by dragging one's feet wordnet
- 5 To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing. ambitransitive
"He shuffled out of the room."
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- 6 move about, move back and forth wordnet
- 7 To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
"I myself, […] hiding mine honour in my necessity, am fain to shuffle."
- 8 To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
"Your life, good master, / Must shuffle for itself."
- 9 To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.
"to shuffle money from hand to hand"
- 10 To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
"Therefore you do vvell to have recourſe to your laſt Evaſion, that it vvas contriv'd by your Enemies, and ſhuffled into the Papers that vvere ſeiz'd: vvhich yet you ſee the Nation is not ſo eaſy to believe as your ovvn Fury; […]"
Etymology
Originally the same word as scuffle, and properly a frequentative of shove.
Originally the same word as scuffle, and properly a frequentative of shove.
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