Shuffle
WordNet
noun
(1) Walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet
"From his shambling I assumed he was very old"
(2) The act of mixing cards haphazardly
verb
(3) Mix so as to make a random order or arrangement
"Shuffle the cards"
(4) Walk by dragging one's feet
"He shuffled out of the room"
"We heard his feet shuffling down the hall"
(5) Move about, move back and forth
"He shuffled his funds among different accounts in various countries so as to avoid the IRS"
WiktionaryText
Noun
- The act of shuffling cards.
- He made a real mess of the last shuffle.
- To get lost in the shuffle: to lack attention when you deserve it.
- An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.
- The sad young girl left with a lazy shuffle.
- 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.
Verb
- To mix up cards in a random order before a card game
- You shuffle, I'll deal.
- Don't forget to shuffle the cards.
- To walk without picking up one's feet
- He shuffled out of the room.
- I shuffled my feet across the rug.
- To put in a random order
- The data packets are shuffled before transmission.
- I'm going to shuffle all the songs in my playlist.