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Walking vs Shuffle - What's the difference?

walking | shuffle |

As verbs the difference between walking and shuffle

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

As nouns the difference between walking and shuffle

is that walking is while shuffle is the act of shuffling cards.

As an adjective walking

is as a human; living.

walking

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • .
  • * 1878 , Anthony Trollope, Ayala's Angel
  • Mrs Dosett, aware that daintiness was no longer within the reach of her and hers, did assent to these walkings in Kensington Gardens.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Rob Dorit
  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= These 'Bots Are Made for Walking , passage=Walking seems so simple: Just put one foot in front of the other. Yet every step you take is a precarious act. When you walk, your body’s center of mass is rarely located over one of your feet.}}

    Adjective

    (-)
  • as a human; living.
  • Elizabeth knows so many words that they call her the walking dictionary.
    Phil's mother is a walking miracle after surviving that accident.
  • Able to walk in spite of injury or sickness.
  • Characterized by or suitable for walking.
  • a walking tour
    good walking shoes

    Derived terms

    * walking bass * walking cane * walking carpet * walking cast * walking fern * walking frame * walking papers * walking patient * walking stick * walking wounded

    See also

    * shanks' pony

    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.

    Derived terms

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