shuffle
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shuffle
- /ˈʃʌfəl/
Rhymes with -ʌfəl
Where it comes from
Originally the same word as scuffle, and properly a frequentative of shove.
noun shuffles
- The act of mixing cards or mah-jong tiles so as to randomize them. He made a real mess of the last shuffle.
- The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player.
- An instance of walking without lifting one's feet. The sad young girl left with a tired shuffle.
- 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.
- A dance move in which the foot is scuffed back and forth across the floor.
- A trick; an artifice; an evasion. The Gifts of Nature are beyond all the Shams and Shuffles in the World.
verb shuffles · shuffling · shuffled
- To put in a random order. Don't forget to shuffle the cards.
- 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.
- To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing. He shuffled out of the room.
- 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.
- To use arts or expedients; to make shift. Your life, good master, / Must shuffle for itself.
- To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another. to shuffle money from hand to hand
- 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; […]
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: scuffle, make, mix, shamble, shambling, ruffle, reshuffle, move, realignment, scrimmage, amendment, melee, huddle, redesign, re-engineering, amended
Translations
Every language
noun act of shuffling cards
| Español | baraje, barajada, barajadura |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | シャッフル shaffuru |
| Português | embaralhamento, baralhar |
| Français | battage |
| Deutsch | Mischen, Durchmischen |
| Русский | тасова́ние tasovánije, переме́шивание pereméšivanije |
noun instance of walking without lifting one's feet
| Deutsch | Schlurfen |
|---|
verb to put in a random order
| Español | barajear, barajar, naipear, entreverar |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 뒤섞다 dwiseokda |
| 中文 | 洗牌 xǐpái |
| Português | embaralhar, baralhar |
| Français | battre, mélanger |
| Deutsch | mischen, durchmischen |
| Italiano | mescolare, mischiare |
| Русский | тасова́ть tasovátʹ, перетасова́ть peretasovátʹ, переме́шивать pereméšivatʹ, перемеша́ть peremešátʹ |
| Tiếng Việt | trộn, xáo |
| العربية | خَلَطَ ḵalaṭa |
| עברית | ערבב irbév, טָרַף taráf |
verb to walk without picking up one's feet
| Español | arrastrar |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 질질 끌다 jiljil kkeulda |
| Português | arrastar os pés |
| Français | traîner les pieds |
| Deutsch | schlurfen |
| Italiano | strascicare, trascinarsi |
| Română | se târșâi |
| Русский | ша́ркать šárkatʹ, волочи́ть но́ги voločítʹ nógi |
| العربية | مَشَى يَجُرُّ قَدَمَيْهِ mašā yajurru qadamayhi, رَسَفَ rasafa |
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title = {shuffle},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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