shuffle : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: shuffle	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for shuffle
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shuffle n the act of mixing cards haphazardly [syn: shuffle, shuffling, make] walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet; "from his shambling I assumed he was very old" Synonym(s): shamble, shambling, shuffle, shuffling v walk by dragging one's feet; "he shuffled out of the room"; "We heard his feet shuffling down the hall" Synonym(s): shuffle, scuffle, shamble move about, move back and forth; "He shuffled his funds among different accounts in various countries so as to avoid the IRS" mix so as to make a random order or arrangement; "shuffle the cards" Synonym(s): shuffle, ruffle, mix
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\, 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\, 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.