shamble, shambling, shuffle, shuffling
(noun) walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet; “from his shambling I assumed he was very old”
shuffle, shuffling, make
(noun) the act of mixing cards haphazardly
shuffle, ruffle, mix
(verb) mix so as to make a random order or arrangement; “shuffle the cards”
shuffle, scuffle, shamble
(verb) walk by dragging one’s feet; “he shuffled out of the room”; “We heard his feet shuffling down the hall”
shuffle
(verb) move about, move back and forth; “He shuffled his funds among different accounts in various countries so as to avoid the IRS”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
shuffle (plural shuffles)
The act of shuffling cards.
The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player.
An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.
(by extension, music) A rhythm commonly used in blues music. Consists of a series of triplet notes with the middle note missing, so that it sounds like a long note followed by a short note. Sounds like a walker dragging one foot.
A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
shuffle (third-person singular simple present shuffles, present participle shuffling, simple past and past participle shuffled)
(ambitransitive) To put in a random order.
To change; modify the order of something.
(ambitransitive) To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.
To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
• (walk without picking up one's feet): shamble
Source: Wiktionary
Shuf"fle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shuffled; p. pr. & vb. n. Shuffling.] Etym: [Originally the same word as scuffle, and properly a freq. of shove. See Shove, and Scuffle.]
1. To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.
2. To mix by pushing or shoving; to confuse; to throw into disorder; especially, to change the relative positions of, as of the cards in a pack. A man may shuffle cards or rattle dice from noon to midnight without tracing a new idea in his mind. Rombler.
3. To remove or introduce by artificial confusion. It was contrived by your enemies, and shuffled into the papers that were seizen. Dryden. To shuffe off, to push off; to rid one's self of.
– To shuffe up, to throw together in hastel to make up or form in confusion or with fraudulent disorder; as, he shuffled up a peace.
Shuf"fle, v. i.
1. To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to shuffle and cut.
2. To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate. I muself, . . . hiding mine honor in my necessity, am fain to shuffle. Shak.
3. To use arts or expedients; to make shift. Your life, good master, Must shuffle for itself. Shak.
4. To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing. The aged creature came Shuffling along with ivory-headed wand. Keats.
Syn.
– To equivicate; prevaricate; quibble; cavil; shift; siphisticate; juggle.
Shuf"fle, n.
1. The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion. The unguided agitation and rude shuffles of matter. Bentley.
2. A trick; an artifice; an evasion. The gifts of nature are beyond all shame and shuffles. L'Estrange.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
16 May 2024
(noun) a system of economic regulation: wages and interest are tied to the cost-of-living index in order to reduce the effects of inflation
Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted coffee beans, the seeds of berries from certain Coffea species. When coffee berries turn from green to bright red – indicating ripeness – they are picked, processed, and dried. Dried coffee seeds are roasted to varying degrees, depending on the desired flavor.
