shuffle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: dance
dancing
entertainment
hobbies
lifestyle
music
sports
Etymology: Originally the same word as scuffle, and properly a frequentative of shove.
Inflected forms:
form: shuffles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shuffles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shuffling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shuffled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shuffled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The act of mixing cards or mah-jong tiles so as to randomize them.
pos: noun
examples: He made a real mess of the last shuffle.
gloss: The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player.
pos: noun
gloss: An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.
pos: noun
examples: The sad young girl left with a tired shuffle.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A dance move in which the foot is scuffed back and forth across the floor.
pos: noun
gloss: A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
pos: noun
examples: The Gifts of Nature are beyond all the Shams and Shuffles in the World.
gloss: To put in a random order.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Don't forget to shuffle the cards.
You shuffle, and I'll deal.
The data packets are shuffled before transmission.
I'm going to shuffle all the songs in my playlist.
gloss: To change; modify the order of something.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
gloss: To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: He shuffled out of the room.
I shuffled my feet in embarrassment.
[T]he aged creature came, / Shuffling along with ivory-headed wand, […]
Even when the other instruments were resting the pianist kept up his monotonous vamping, with a dreary furbelow for embellishment here and there, to which some few of the dancers continued to shuffle round the floor.
The regular crowd shuffles in
gloss: To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
pos: verb
examples: I myself, […] hiding mine honour in my necessity, am fain to shuffle.
gloss: To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
pos: verb
examples: Your life, good master, / Must shuffle for itself.
gloss: To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.
pos: verb
examples: to shuffle money from hand to hand
gloss: To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
pos: verb
examples: 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; […]
Derived words: auto-shuffle
Brixton shuffle
double shuffle
Fisher-Yates shuffle
five-knuckle shuffle
Kansas City shuffle
Kit Kat shuffle
Largactil shuffle
lost in the shuffle
mana shuffle
Melbourne shuffle
riffle shuffle
shuffle algebra
shuffle product
shuffle steer
Thorazine shuffle
three-card shuffle
truffle shuffle
Zarrow shuffle
double-shuffle
bum shuffle
deshuffle
misshuffle
reshuffle
shufflable
shuffleable
shuffleability
shuffleboard
shuffle off
shuffle off this mortal coil
shufflepuck
shuffler
shuffle the cards
shuffle the chairs on the deck of the Titanic
shuffle the deckchairs on the Titanic
shuffle up
shufflewing
shufflingly
shuffly
stingray shuffle
unshufflable
unshuffle
unshuffleable
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