Shuffle vs Ruffle - What's the difference?

shuffle | ruffle |

As verbs the difference between shuffle and ruffle

is that shuffle is to put in a random order while ruffle is .

As a noun shuffle

is the act of shuffling cards.

shuffle

English

Noun

(en noun)

The act of shuffling cards.

He made a real mess of the last shuffle .

An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.

''The sad young girl left with a tired shuffle .

(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.

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 shuffle

Verb

(shuffl)

To put in a random order.

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.

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.

* Keats

The aged creature came / Shuffling along with ivory-headed wand.

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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

I myself, hiding mine honour in my necessity, am fain to shuffle .

To use arts or expedients; to make shift.

* Shakespeare

Your life, good master, / Must shuffle for itself.

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.

* Dryden

It was contrived by your enemies, and shuffled into the papers that were seiz'd.

Synonyms

* (sense, walk without picking up one's feet) shamble

Derived terms

* deshuffle * reshuffle * shufflable, shuffleable * shuffle off this mortal coil * shuffle off * shuffle up * shuffler

ruffle

English

Noun

(en noun)

Any gathered or curled strip of fabric added as trim or decoration.^(w)

''She loved the dress with the lace ruffle at the hem.

Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles , flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.

Disturbance; agitation; commotion.

to put the mind in a ruffle

(military) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruff.

(zoology) The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur .

Synonyms

* (strip of fabric) frill, furbelow

Verb

(ruffl)

To make a ruffle in; to curl or flute, as an edge of fabric.

Ruffle the end of the cuff.

To disturb; especially, to cause to flutter.

The wind ruffled the papers.

Her sudden volley of insults ruffled his composure.

* I. Taylor

the fantastic revelries that so often ruffled the placid bosom of the Nile

* Sir W. Hamilton

These ruffle the tranquillity of the mind.

* Dryden

She smoothed the ruffled seas.

* Tennyson

But, ever after, the small violence done / Rankled in him and ruffled all his heart.

To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.

* Shakespeare

The night comes on, and the bleak winds / Do sorely ruffle .

To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.

* Dryden

On his right shoulder his thick mane reclined, / Ruffles at speed, and dances in the wind.

To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.

* Francis Bacon

They would ruffle with jurors.

* Sir Walter Scott

gallants who ruffled in silk and embroidery

To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.

To erect in a ruff, as feathers.

* Tennyson

[The swan] ruffles her pure cold plume.

(military) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.

To throw together in a disorderly manner.

* Chapman

I ruffled up fallen leaves in heap.

Derived terms

* ruffly