shuffle
/ˈʃʌfəl/
shuffle noun: the act of mixing cards or mah-jong tiles so as to randomize them.
Noun
shuffle (plural shuffles)
- The act of mixing cards or mah-jong tiles so as to randomize them.
- He made a real mess of the last shuffle.
- The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player.
- An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.
- The sad young girl left with a tired shuffle.
- 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.
- A dance move in which the foot is scuffed back and forth across the floor.
- A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
- The Gifts of Nature are beyond all the Shams and Shuffles in the World.1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC
Verb
shuffle (third-person singular simple present shuffles, present participle shuffling, simple past and past participle shuffled)
- To put in a random order.
- Don't forget to shuffle the cards.
- You shuffle, and I'll deal.
- To change; modify the order of something.
- 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.2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0 – 2 Fulham”, in BBC Sport
- To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
- He shuffled out of the room.
- I shuffled my feet in embarrassment.
- To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
- I myself, […] hiding mine honour in my necessity, am fain to shuffle.c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
- Your life, good master, / Must shuffle for itself.1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
- To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.
- to shuffle money from hand to hand
- To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
- Therefore you do vvell to have recourſe to your laſt Evaſion, that it vvas contriv'd by your Enemies, and ſhuffled into the Papers that vvere ſeiz'd: vvhich yet you ſee the Nation is not ſo eaſy to believe as your ovvn Fury; […]1682, [John Dryden], “Epistle to the Whigs”, in The Medall. A Satyre Against Sedition. […], Edinburgh: [s.n.], →OCLC
shuffle meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
shuffle in Hindi
- to shuffle
- पीसना pīsnā, फेंटना phẽṭnā
shuffle in Tamil
- கலைப்பீடு, மாற்றி வை
shuffle in Marathi
- to shuffle
- पिसणे pisṇe
shuffle in Urdu
- گڈمڈ کرنا
More languagesFewer languages
- shuffle in Telugu
- షఫుల్ చేయండి, షఫుల్, షఫుల్ చేయడానికి
- shuffle in Malayalam
- വേച്ചുവേച്ചു നടക്കുക, ഇഴഞ്ഞുവലിഞ്ഞു നടക്കുക, കാൽവലിച്ചുവലിച്ചു നടക്കുക, വലിച്ചിഴച്ചു നടക്കുക
- shuffle in Kannada
- ಬೆರಸು, ಬೆರೆಯಿಸು, ಬೆರೆಸು, ಕಲಸು
- shuffle in Gujarati
- શફલ કરો
- shuffle in Arabic
- خَلَطَ ḵalaṭa, مَشَى يَجُرُّ قَدَمَيْهِ mašā yajurru qadamayhi, رَسَفَ rasafa
- shuffle in Malay
- bancuh, gaul
- shuffle in Persian
- بر bor
- shuffle in Vietnamese
- trộn, xáo
Examples of shuffle in a sentence
- The data packets are shuffled before transmission.
- I'm going to shuffle all the songs in my playlist.
- Behind her, she heard the flutter of cards being shuffled back into the pack.2015, Abra S.W., A Circus of Brass and Bone, Bimulous Books:
Synonyms of shuffle
Forms of shuffle
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | shuffles |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | shuffles |
| present participle | shuffling |
| past participle | shuffled |
| past | shuffled |
Origin of shuffle
Originally the same word as scuffle, and properly a frequentative of shove.
Words formed from shuffle
- auto-shuffle
- Brixton shuffle
- double shuffle
- Fisher-Yates shuffle
- five-knuckle shuffle
- ghost note shuffle
- Kansas City shuffle
- Kit Kat shuffle
- Largactil shuffle
- lost in the shuffle
- mana shuffle
- Melbourne shuffle
- Purdie shuffle
- riffle shuffle
- shuffle algebra
- shuffle product
- shuffle steer
- Thorazine shuffle
- three-card shuffle
- truffle shuffle
- Zarrow shuffle
- double-shuffle
- bum shuffle
- deshuffle
- misshuffle
- reshuffle
- shufflable
- shuffleable
- shuffleability
- shuffleboard
- shuffle off
- shuffle off this mortal coil
- shufflepuck
- shuffler
- shuffle the cards
- shuffle the chairs on the deck of the Titanic
- shuffle the deckchairs on the Titanic
- shuffle up
- shufflewing
- shufflingly
- shuffly
- stingray shuffle
- unshufflable
- unshuffle
- unshuffleable
Phrases with shuffle
Words that rhyme with shuffle
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Questions about shuffle
- What does shuffle mean?
- Shuffle means the act of mixing cards or mah-jong tiles so as to randomize them.
- What is shuffle in Hindi?
- Shuffle in Hindi is पीसना (pīsnā), फेंटना (phẽṭnā). See Shuffle meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use shuffle in a sentence?
- The data packets are shuffled before transmission.
- What part of speech is shuffle?
- Shuffle can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce shuffle?
- Shuffle is pronounced /ˈʃʌfəl/.
- What is the plural of shuffle?
- The plural of shuffle is shuffles.
Words near shuffle in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: shuffle (page history and authors); पीसना (Hindi) (page history and authors); shuffle (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); पिसणे (Marathi) (page history and authors); shuffle (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); shuffle (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shuffle (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); shuffle (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); shuffle (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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