Shuffle vs Wobble - What's the difference?

Shuffle is a related term of wobble.

As nouns the difference between shuffle and wobble

is that shuffle is the act of shuffling cards while wobble is an unsteady motion.

As verbs the difference between shuffle and wobble

is that shuffle is to put in a random order while wobble is to move with an uneven or rocking motion, or unsteadily to and fro.

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.

* {{quote-news

, year=2010 , date=December 28 , author=Marc Vesty , title=Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=But, rather than make a change up front, Hughes shuffled his defence for this match, replacing Carlos Salcido with Baird, in a move which few would have predicted would prove decisive.}}

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

wobble

English

Noun

(en noun)

An unsteady motion.

The fat man walked down the street with a wobble .

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=October 29 , author=Neil Johnston , title=Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=That should have been that, but Hart caught a dose of the Hennessey wobbles and spilled Adlene Guedioura's long-range shot.}}

A tremulous sound.

There was a wobble on her high notes.

(music) A low-frequency oscillation sometimes used in dubstep

Synonyms

* (unsteady motion ): jiggle, quiver, shake, tremble * (tremulous sound ): quaver, tremble, tremolo, vibrato

Verb

(wobbl)

To move with an uneven or rocking motion, or unsteadily to and fro.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-06, volume=408, issue=8843, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The rise of smart beta , passage=Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.}}

To tremble or quaver.

To vacillate in one's opinions.

To cause to wobble.

Synonyms

* (move with an uneven or rocking motion ): judder, shake, shudder, tremble * (quaver ): quaver, quiver, tremble * (vacillate ): falter, vacillate, waffle, waver * (cause to wobble ): jiggle, rock, shake, wiggle

Derived terms

* wobbler * wobbly