Transpose vs Shuffle - What's the difference?
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To reverse or change the order of (two or more things); to swap or interchange.
(music) To rewrite or perform (a piece) in another key
(algebra) To move (a term) from one side of an algebraic equation to the other, reversing the sign of the term. In matrix mathematics, the process of rearranging elements in a matrix, by interchanging their respective row and column positional indicators.
(adjective, algebra) In matrix mathematics, a matrix with the characteristic of having been transposed from a given matrix.
(adjective, algebra) In matrix mathematics, the resulting matrix, derived from performing a transpose operation on a given matrix.
(linear algebra) In matrix mathematics, the process of rearranging elements in a matrix, by interchanging their respective row and column positional indicators.
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.
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To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
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To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.
To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
* Dryden
As verbs the difference between transpose and shuffle
is that transpose is to reverse or change the order of (two or more things); to swap or interchange while shuffle is to put in a random order.As nouns the difference between transpose and shuffle
is that transpose is in matrix mathematics, the resulting matrix, derived from performing a transpose operation on a given matrix while shuffle is the act of shuffling cards.As an adjective transpose
is in matrix mathematics, a matrix with the characteristic of having been transposed from a given matrix.transpose
English
(wikipedia transpose)Etymology 1
From (etyl) transposer, from (etyl) perfect passive participle transpositus'', from ''transponere'', to put across, from ''trans'', across, and ''ponere , to putVerb
(transpos)Adjective
(en adjective)Noun
(s)Synonyms
* (''reverse or change the order of'): exchange, interchange, swap, swap over, swap round, switchDerived terms
* transposable * transposal * transposase * transposer * transposing * transposition * transposonEtymology 2
From the verb.Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* patroness English heteronyms ----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.