Get Affordable VMs - excellent virtual server hosting


browse words by letter
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

shufflemore about shuffle

shuffle

 

  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Shuffle  \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  myself,  .  .  .  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; 
  sophisticate;  juggle. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Shuffle  \Shuf"fle\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Shuffled};  p.  pr  &  vb 
  n.  {Shuffling}.]  [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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Shuffle  \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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  shuffle 
  n  1:  the  act  of  mixing  cards  haphazardly  [syn:  {shuffling},  {make}] 
  2:  walking  with  a  slow  dragging  motion  without  lifting  your 
  feet  [syn:  {shamble},  {shambling},  {shuffling}] 
  v  1:  walk  by  dragging  one's  feet;  "he  shuffled  out  of  the  room"; 
  "We  heard  his  feet  shuffling  down  the  hall"  [syn:  {scuffle}, 
  {shamble}] 
  2:  move  about  move  back  and  forth;  "He  shuffled  his  funds 
  among  different  accounts  in  various  countries  so  as  to 
  avoid  the  IRS" 
  3:  mix  so  as  to  make  a  random  order  or  arrangement;  "shuffle 
  the  cards"  [syn:  {ruffle},  {mix}]




more about shuffle