SHUFFLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shuffling mean? 

• SHUFFLING (noun)
  The noun SHUFFLING has 2 senses:

1. walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet

2. the act of mixing cards haphazardly

  Familiarity information: SHUFFLING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHUFFLING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

shamble; shambling; shuffle; shuffling

Context example:

from his shambling I assumed he was very old

Hypernyms ("shuffling" is a kind of...):

walk; walking (the act of traveling by foot)

Derivation:

shuffle (walk by dragging one's feet)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of mixing cards haphazardly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

make; shuffle; shuffling

Hypernyms ("shuffling" is a kind of...):

reordering (a rearrangement in a different order)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shuffling"):

reshuffle; reshuffling (shuffling again)

riffle (shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners)

Holonyms ("shuffling" is a part of...):

card game; cards (a game played with playing cards)

Derivation:

shuffle (mix so as to make a random order or arrangement)

 Context examples 

I heard it too—a shuffling footstep in the room above, and then a creak from the steps, and then another creak, and another.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We heard a shuffling sound outside, and then two sharp taps with the knocker.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

” quoth Thomas Mugridge,—and they clinked their glasses to the glorious game of “Nap,” lighted cigars, and fell to shuffling and dealing the cards.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Once upon a yellow sandbank I saw a creature like a huge swan, with a clumsy body and a high, flexible neck, shuffling about upon the margin.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The unexpected had swept its wizardry over the face of things, changing the perspective, juggling values, and shuffling the real and the unreal into perplexing confusion.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

On he clambered, with his hand shuffling down the long sloping crack, sometimes bearing all his weight upon his arms, at others finding some small shelf or tuft on which to rest his foot.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Generation of Antibody Diversity during B-lymphocyte development results from a cascade of temporally ordered random gene shuffling translocations by a recombinase that join any one of multiple alternative discrete V, D, and J (heavy chain) or V and J (light chain) antibody gene variable region DNA coding segments that produce in each B-lymphocyte an antibody with a unique antigen binding region composed of a heavy and a light protein chain.

(Generation of Antibody Diversity, NCI Thesaurus)

It was as much, however, as was desired, and more than was expected, by Edward and Elinor; and Mrs. Ferrars herself, by her shuffling excuses, seemed the only person surprised at her not giving more.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Yahoo as I am, it is well known through all Houyhnhnmland, that, by the instructions and example of my illustrious master, I was able in the compass of two years (although I confess with the utmost difficulty) to remove that infernal habit of lying, shuffling, deceiving, and equivocating, so deeply rooted in the very souls of all my species; especially the Europeans.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

These observations, and indeed the greater part of the observations made that evening, were interrupted by Mrs. Micawber's discovering that Master Micawber was sitting on his boots, or holding his head on with both arms as if he felt it loose, or accidentally kicking Traddles under the table, or shuffling his feet over one another, or producing them at distances from himself apparently outrageous to nature, or lying sideways with his hair among the wine-glasses, or developing his restlessness of limb in some other form incompatible with the general interests of society; and by Master Micawber's receiving those discoveries in a resentful spirit.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)