the act of mixing cards haphazardly
Used in a Sentence
shuffle
How to use shuffle in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for shuffle.
Editorial note
No one presses the shuffle button to get satisfaction out of pure randomness.
Examples13
Definitions5
Parts of speech2
Quick take
the act of mixing cards haphazardly
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of shuffle gathered in one view.
walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet; "from his shambling I assumed he was very old"
walk by dragging one's feet; "he shuffled out of the room"; "We heard his feet shuffling down the hall"
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for shuffle.
noun
the act of mixing cards haphazardly
noun
walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet; "from his shambling I assumed he was very old"
verb
walk by dragging one's feet; "he shuffled out of the room"; "We heard his feet shuffling down the hall"
verb
move about, move back and forth; "He shuffled his funds among different accounts in various countries so as to avoid the IRS"
verb
mix so as to make a random order or arrangement; "shuffle the cards"
Example sentences
No one presses the shuffle button to get satisfaction out of pure randomness.
They want their songs shuffled, and they want them shuffled in a way that keeps songs from the same album distributed far apart.
Initial thoughts are I don't like how it displays my music; but I do like the shuffle since its playing songs I never hear.
I can programmatically launch AWS instances and then shuffle work to them and then terminate them when they're done.
If think your users are dumb because they don't understand randomness then you don't understand the job that shuffle is supposed to do.
But many exist only to shuffle around money in a clever way, so that some percentage of that money goes into their coffers.
The store was so crowded no more than 4 people could be in it at one time and searching LPs involved having the owner do feats of acrobatics to shuffle boxes around.
I can move through the z axis of my desktop faster with alt-tab than I could ever move, shuffle, re-order a stack of documents with my hands in a 3-d environment.
Doesn't the birthday paradox also come into play here, significantly increasing the chances of a duplicated shuffle?
Often times classical CDs break up a single piece into multiple tracks, so if you're listening to your library on shuffle, you will often jump into the middle of a piece, which is annoying.
It would be so cool if there were a music player where you could link several tracks together as one piece so that shuffle would always start from the beginning and wouldn't shuffle away until the end.
AKP's response was to shuffle around 350 police officers to replace them with their own men, and unsurprisingly the police refused to carry out the prosecutor's orders for arrest.
But that also means children ought to be able to follow the life path that fits them best after the shuffle of genes they receive from their parents, the influences of their early childhood, and the constraints of their youthful circumstances.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use shuffle in a sentence?
No one presses the shuffle button to get satisfaction out of pure randomness.
What does shuffle mean?
the act of mixing cards haphazardly
What part of speech is shuffle?
shuffle is commonly used as noun, verb.