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Shuffled vs Flowed - What's the difference?

shuffled | flowed |

As verbs the difference between shuffled and flowed

is that shuffled is past tense of shuffle while flowed is past tense of flow.

As an adjective shuffled

is jumbled together.

shuffled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (shuffle)

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • Jumbled together.

    • 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.
  • * '>citation
  • 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

    flowed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (flow)

    • Anagrams

    * *

    flow

    English

    Noun

  • A movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts
  • The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.}}
  • The rising movement of the tide.
  • Smoothness or continuity.
  • The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
  • (psychology) The state of being at one with.
  • Menstruation fluid

    • Antonyms

    * (movement of the tide) ebb

    Related terms

    * antiflow * dark flow * ebb and flow * flowable * inflow * midflow * outflow * postflow * preflow * reflow * reflowable

    External links

    * (wikipedia "flow") *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To move as a fluid from one position to another.
    • Rivers flow from springs and lakes.
    Tears flow from the eyes.
  • To proceed; to issue forth.
    • Wealth flows from industry and economy.
  • * Milton
    • Those thousand decencies that daily flow / From all her words and actions.
  • To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
    • The writing is grammatically correct, but it just doesn't flow .
  • * Dryden
    • Virgil is sweet and flowing in his hexameters.
  • To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
  • * Bible, Joel iii. 18
    • In that day the hills shall flow with milk.
  • * Prof. Wilson
    • the exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl
  • To hang loosely and wave.
    • a flowing''' mantle; '''flowing locks
  • * A. Hamilton
    • the imperial purple flowing in his train
  • To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb .
    • The tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The river hath thrice flowed , no ebb between.
  • (computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.
  • To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
  • To cover with varnish.
  • To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.

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