Feet vs Shuffle - What's the difference?
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(foot).
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*:There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
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, chapter=14 (lb) Fact; performance; feat.
The act of shuffling cards.
An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.
(by extension, music) A rhythm commonly used in blues music. Consists of a series of triplet notes with the middle note missing, so that it sounds like a long note followed by a short note. Sounds like a walker dragging one foot.
A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
To put in a random order.
To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
* Keats
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To change; modify the order of something.
* {{quote-news
, year=2010
, date=December 28
, author=Marc Vesty
, title=Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham
, work=BBC
To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
* Shakespeare
To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
* Shakespeare
To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.
To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
* Dryden
As nouns the difference between feet and shuffle
is that feet is irregular plural of foot while shuffle is the act of shuffling cards.As a verb shuffle is
to put in a random order.feet
English
Noun
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Derived terms
* a closed mouth gathers no feet * crow's-feet * cubic feet * drag one's feet * fall on one's feet * fall over one's feet * feet first * feet of clay * feet first * feetless * feetlong * find one's feet * flat feet * get cold feet * get one's feet wet * have one's feet on the ground * hold someone's feet to the fire * itchy feet * land on one's feet * metric feet * on one's feet * out on one's feet * put one's feet up * puppy feet * quick on his feet * six feet under * stand on one's own two feet * stocking-feet * think on one's feet * two left feet * vote with one's feet * washing of feet * See alsoStatistics
*Anagrams
* ----shuffle
English
Noun
(en noun)- He made a real mess of the last shuffle .
- ''The sad young girl left with a tired shuffle .
- The gifts of nature are beyond all shame and shuffles . — L'Estrange.
Quotations
* 1995 Mel Kernahan, White savages in the South Seas, Verso, p113 *: As I lay there listening to the strange night sounds, I hear the shuffle of someone creeping by outside in the grass. * 2003 Edmund G. Bansak & Robert Wise, Fearing the Dark: The Val Lewton Career, McFarland, p394 *: She has a crippled leg, and every time she walks we hear the shuffle of her crinoline skirt and the thumping of her cane. * 2008 Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, Pan Macmillan Australia, p148 *: Around her, she could hear the shuffle of her own hands, disturbing the shelves.Derived terms
* to get / become / be lost in the shuffleVerb
(shuffl)- Don't forget to shuffle the cards.
- You shuffle , I'll deal.
- The data packets are shuffled before transmission.
- I'm going to shuffle all the songs in my playlist.
- He shuffled out of the room.
- I shuffled my feet in embarrassment.
- The aged creature came / Shuffling along with ivory-headed wand.
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- I myself, hiding mine honour in my necessity, am fain to shuffle .
- Your life, good master, / Must shuffle for itself.
- to shuffle money from hand to hand
- It was contrived by your enemies, and shuffled into the papers that were seiz'd.