SHUFFLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shuffle mean? 

• SHUFFLE (noun)
  The noun SHUFFLE has 2 senses:

1. the act of mixing cards haphazardly

2. walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet

  Familiarity information: SHUFFLE used as a noun is rare.

• SHUFFLE (verb)
  The verb SHUFFLE has 3 senses:

1. walk by dragging one's feet

2. move about, move back and forth

3. mix so as to make a random order or arrangement

  Familiarity information: SHUFFLE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHUFFLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of mixing cards haphazardly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

make; shuffle; shuffling

Hypernyms ("shuffle" is a kind of...):

reordering (a rearrangement in a different order)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shuffle"):

reshuffle; reshuffling (shuffling again)

riffle (shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners)

Holonyms ("shuffle" is a part of...):

card game; cards (a game played with playing cards)

Derivation:

shuffle (mix so as to make a random order or arrangement)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

shamble; shambling; shuffle; shuffling

Context example:

from his shambling I assumed he was very old

Hypernyms ("shuffle" is a kind of...):

walk; walking (the act of traveling by foot)

Derivation:

shuffle (walk by dragging one's feet)

• SHUFFLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they shuffle    ... he / she / it shuffles   
Past simple: shuffled   
Past participle: shuffled   
-ing form: shuffling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Walk by dragging one's feet

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

scuffle; shamble; shuffle

Context example:

We heard his feet shuffling down the hall

Hypernyms (to "shuffle" is one way to...):

walk (use one's feet to advance; advance by steps)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "shuffle"):

drag; scuff (walk without lifting the feet)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

The children shuffle to the playground

Derivation:

shuffle (walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet)

shuffler (someone who walks without raising the feet)

shuffling (walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Move about, move back and forth

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

He shuffled his funds among different accounts in various countries so as to avoid the IRS

Hypernyms (to "shuffle" is one way to...):

shift; transfer (move around)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 3

Meaning:

Mix so as to make a random order or arrangement

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

mix; ruffle; shuffle

Context example:

shuffle the cards

Hypernyms (to "shuffle" is one way to...):

manipulate (hold something in one's hands and move it)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "shuffle"):

reshuffle (shuffle again)

riffle (shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix)

cut (divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

shuffle (the act of mixing cards haphazardly)

shuffler (the card player who shuffles the cards)

shuffling (the act of mixing cards haphazardly)

 Context examples 

Last month, the universe shuffled the planets, creating an entirely new picture of life for everyone.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The girl and the old man began to shuffle on in the crowd without their tormentors venturing to stop them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I heard it too—a shuffling footstep in the room above, and then a creak from the steps, and then another creak, and another.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Uriah, without lifting his eyes from the ground, shuffled across the room with his hand to his chin, and pausing at the door, said: Copperfield, I have always hated you.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

For two streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We heard a shuffling sound outside, and then two sharp taps with the knocker.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Dennin shuffled his feet on the barrel, looked down bashfully like a man making his maiden speech, and cleared his throat.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

They shuffled and lied—said that they found it on the moor on Tuesday morning.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

” quoth Thomas Mugridge,—and they clinked their glasses to the glorious game of “Nap,” lighted cigars, and fell to shuffling and dealing the cards.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Once upon a yellow sandbank I saw a creature like a huge swan, with a clumsy body and a high, flexible neck, shuffling about upon the margin.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)