Shuffle

/ˈʃʌfəl/ · noun

Meaning

The act of mixing cards or mah-jong tiles so as to randomize them..

Definitions by Sense

1. The act of mixing cards or mah-jong tiles so as to randomize them.
2. The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player.
3. An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.
4. (by extension, music) 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.
5. (dance) A dance move in which the foot is scuffed back and forth across the floor.
6. A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
7. (ambitransitive) To put in a random order.
8. To change; modify the order of something.

Example Sentences

He made a real mess of the last shuffle.

The sad young girl left with a tired shuffle.

The Gifts of Nature are beyond all the Shams and Shuffles in the World.

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.

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.

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• shuffles
• shuffling
• shuffled

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