Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - shuffle
Shuffle
shuffle
v. & n. --v. 1 tr. & intr. move with a scraping, sliding, or dragging motion (shuffles along; shuffling his feet). 2 tr. a (also absol.) rearrange (a pack of cards) by sliding them over each other quickly. b rearrange; intermingle; confuse (shuffled the documents). 3 tr. (usu. foll. by on, off, into) assume or remove (clothes, a burden, etc.) esp. clumsily or evasively (shuffled on his clothes; shuffled off responsibility). 4 intr. a equivocate; prevaricate. b continually shift one's position; fidget. 5 intr. (foll. by out of) escape evasively (shuffled out of the blame). --n. 1 a shuffling movement. 2 the act or an instance of shuffling cards. 3 a general change of relative positions. 4 a piece of equivocation; sharp practice. 5 a quick scraping movement of the feet in dancing (see also double shuffle). Phrases and idioms shuffle-board = SHOVELBOARD. shuffle the cards change policy etc. Derivatives shuffler n. Etymology: perh. f. LG schuffeln walk clumsily f. Gmc: cf. SHOVE
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I. verb (~d; shuffling) Etymology: perhaps irregular from 1shove Date: 1570 transitive verb to mix in a mass confusedly ; jumble, to put or thrust aside or under cover , 3. to rearrange (as playing cards, dominoes, or tiles) to produce a random order, to move about, back and forth, or from one place to another ; shift , 4. to move (as the feet) by sliding along or back and forth without lifting, to perform (as a dance) with a dragging, sliding step, intransitive verb to work into or out of trickily , to act or speak in a shifty or evasive manner, 3. to move or walk in a sliding dragging manner without lifting the feet, to dance in a lazy nonchalant manner with sliding and tapping motions of the feet, to execute in a perfunctory or clumsy manner, to mix playing cards or counters by shuffling, ~r noun II. noun Date: 1628 an evasion of the issue ; equivocation, 2. an act of shuffling (as of cards), a right or turn to ~ , a confusing jumble (as of papers or events) , 3. a dragging sliding movement, a dance characterized by such a step, c. a rhythm where each beat of the measure is played as a triplet with the first and second parts of the triplet tied and the third part accented, music played in a ~ rhythm ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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