Sift vs Shuffle - What's the difference?

sift | shuffle |

As verbs the difference between sift and shuffle

is that sift is to sieve or strain (something) while shuffle is to put in a random order.

As a noun shuffle is

the act of shuffling cards.

sift

English

Verb

To sieve or strain (something).

To separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving.

To examine (something) carefully.

* 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 28.

But if we still carry on our sifting humour, and ask, What is the foundation of all conclusions from experience ? this implies a new question.

* {{quote-book

, year=1764 , author= , title= , pageurl=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/696/696-h/696-h.htm , page= , publisher=}}

It immediately occurred to him to sift her on the subject of Isabella and Theodore.

Derived terms

* sifter

Anagrams

* *

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