Ambiguity vs Shuffling - What's the difference?
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(countable) Something, particulary words and sentences, that is open to more than one interpretation, explanation or meaning, if that meaning etc cannot be determined from its context.
(uncountable) The state of being ambiguous.
The act or motion of one who shuffles.
The noise created by something moving about.
* 2011 , John O'Loughlin, Two Sides of the Same Coin
trickery
* Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill
Moving with a dragging, scraping step.
* Shakespeare
evasive
* T. Burnet
As nouns the difference between ambiguity and shuffling
is that ambiguity is something, particulary words and sentences, that is open to more than one interpretation, explanation or meaning, if that meaning etc cannot be determined from its context while shuffling is the act or motion of one who shuffles.As a verb shuffling is
present participle of lang=en.As an adjective shuffling is
moving with a dragging, scraping step.ambiguity
English
(wikipedia ambiguity)Noun
- His speech was made with such great ambiguity that neither supporter nor opponent could be certain of his true position.
Synonyms
* (state of being ambiguous) ambiguousness, imprecisionAntonyms
* unambiguityshuffling
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- He would also have been exposed to the coughings and shufflings , comings and goings, questions and answers, wailings and slammings, snivellings and sneezings, etc., which figured so prominently in the reference room
- Then he warmed to it, and smoothly set out all his shifts, malices, and treacheries, his extreme boldnesses (he was desperate bold); his retreats, shufflings , and counterfeitings (he was also inconceivably a coward)
Adjective
(en adjective)- A shuffling nag.
- a shuffling excuse