Random vs Shuffle - What's the difference?
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A roving motion; course without definite direction; lack of rule or method; chance.
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*:Counsels, when they fly / At random , sometimes hit most happily.
*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:O, many a shaft, at random sent, / Finds mark the archer little meant!
(label) Speed, full speed; impetuosity, force.
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*:they were messagers vnto kyng Ban & Bors sent from kynge Arthur / therfor said the viij knyghtes ye shalle dye or be prysoners / for we ben knyghtes of kyng Claudas And therwith two of them dressid theire sperys / and Vlfyus and Brastias dressid theire speres and ranne to gyder with grete raundon
*(Edward Hall) (1497-1547)
*:For courageously the two kings newly fought with great random and force.
*1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, page 144:
*:Fortie yards will they shoot levell, or very neare the marke, and 120 is their best at Random .
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(label) The direction of a rake-vein.
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Having unpredictable outcomes and, in the ideal case, all outcomes equally probable; resulting from such selection; lacking statistical correlation.
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(mathematics) Of or relating to probability distribution.
(computing) Pseudorandom; mimicking the result of random selection.
(somewhat colloquial) Representative and undistinguished; typical and average; selected for no particular reason.
(somewhat colloquial) Apropos of nothing; lacking context; unexpected; having apparent lack of plan, cause or reason.
(colloquial) Characterized by or often saying random things; habitually using non sequiturs.
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.
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To change; modify the order of something.
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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 random and shuffle
is that random is a roving motion; course without definite direction; lack of rule or method; chance while shuffle is the act of shuffling cards.As an adjective random
is having unpredictable outcomes and, in the ideal case, all outcomes equally probable; resulting from such selection; lacking statistical correlation.As a verb shuffle is
to put in a random order.random
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* force, momentum, speed, velocity * (unimportant person) nobody, nonentityAdjective
(en adjective)- The flip of a fair coin is purely random .
- The newspaper conducted a random sample of five hundred American teenagers.
- The results of the field survey look random by several different measures.
- Where the Joker preys on our fears of random , irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.
- A toss of loaded dice is still random , though biased.
- The rand function generates a random number from a seed.
- A random American off the street couldn't tell the difference.
- That was a completely random comment.
- The teacher's bartending story was interesting, but random .
- The narrative takes a random course.
- You're so random !
Synonyms
* (having unpredictable outcomes) * (of or relating to probability distribution) stochastic * (pseudorandom) pseudorandom * (representative and undistinguished) average, typical * (lacking context) arbitrary, unexpected, unplannedDerived terms
* at random * non-random * pseudorandom * randomer * randomise, randomize * randomness * random number * randomly * randomology * randomositySee also
* (Randomness)Anagrams
*shuffle
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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.
