Shuffle

['ʃʌf(ə)l] or ['ʃʌfl]

Definition

(noun.) the act of mixing cards haphazardly.

(verb.) mix so as to make a random order or arrangement; 'shuffle the cards'.

(verb.) walk by dragging one's feet; 'he shuffled out of the room'; 'We heard his feet shuffling down the hall'.

(verb.) move about, move back and forth; 'He shuffled his funds among different accounts in various countries so as to avoid the IRS'.

Checker: Raffles--From WordNet

Definition

(v. t.) To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.

(v. i.) To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to shuffle and cut.

(v. i.) To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.

(v. i.) To use arts or expedients; to make shift.

(v. i.) To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.

(n.) The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion.

(n.) A trick; an artifice; an evasion.

Checker: Tom

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. Confuse, jumble, throw into disorder.

v. n. [1]. Prevaricate, quibble, equivocate, cavil, dodge, palter, evade the truth.[2]. Struggle, shift, make shift.

n. Trick, quibble, prevarication, evasion, artifice, fraud, shuffling, subterfuge, pretence, pretext.

Inputed by Laura

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Confuse, interchange, shift, intershift, intermix, derange, agitate, evade,prevaricate, equivocate, quibble, cavil, sophisticate, mystify, palter,dissemble

ANT:Deal, distribute, order, arrange, compose, confess, propound, declare, explain,elucidate, reveal

Editor: Sonya

Definition

v.t. to change the positions of: to confuse: to remove or introduce by purposed confusion.—v.i. to change the order of cards in a pack: to shift ground: to evade fair questions: to move by shoving the feet along.—n. act of shuffling: an evasion or artifice.—n. Shuff′ler.—p.adj. Shuff′ling evasive as an excuse.—adv. Shuff′lingly in a shuffling manner: with an irregular gait: evasively.—To shuffle off to thrust aside put off.

Typed by Duane