Shuffle vs Ride - What's the difference?
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The act of shuffling cards.
An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.
(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.
To put in a random order.
To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
* Keats
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To change; modify the order of something.
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To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
* Shakespeare
To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
* Shakespeare
To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.
To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
* Dryden
(transitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc.
* 1597 , William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, part 1 :
* 1814 , Jane Austen, Mansfield Park :
* 1923 , "Mrs. Rinehart", Time , 28 Apr 1923:
* 2010 , The Guardian ,
(transitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
* 1960 , "Biznelcmd", Time , 20 Jun 1960:
Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.
* Dryden
* 1719 , Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe :
(intransitive) To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback.
To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.
(transitive) To mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with.
* c. 1390 , Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Nun's Priest's Tale", Canterbury Tales :
* 1997 , Linda Howard, Son of the Morning , p. 345:
(colloquial) To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).
* 2002 , Myra MacPherson, Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the haunted generation , p. 375:
Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.
* 2008 , Ann Kessel, The Guardian ,
To rely, depend (on).
* 2006 , "Grappling with deficits", The Economist , 9 Mar 2006:
Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body).
* 2001 , Jenny Eliscu, "Oops...she's doing it again", The Observer ,
(lacrosse) To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
* Jonathan Swift
To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
* Sir Walter Scott
(surgery) To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
An instance of riding.
(informal) A vehicle.
An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.
A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.
(UK) A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
(UK, dialect, archaic) A saddle horse.
Shuffle is a related term of ride.
As verbs the difference between shuffle and ride
is that shuffle is to put in a random order while ride is .As a noun shuffle
is the act of shuffling cards.shuffle
English
Noun
(en noun)- He made a real mess of the last shuffle .
- ''The sad young girl left with a tired shuffle .
- 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 shuffleVerb
(shuffl)- 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.
- He shuffled out of the room.
- I shuffled my feet in embarrassment.
- The aged creature came / Shuffling along with ivory-headed wand.
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- I myself, hiding mine honour in my necessity, am fain to shuffle .
- Your life, good master, / Must shuffle for itself.
- to shuffle money from hand to hand
- 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 * shufflerride
English
Verb
- Go Peto, to horse: for thou, and I, / Haue thirtie miles to ride yet ere dinner time.
- I will take my horse early tomorrow morning and ride over to Stoke, and settle with one of them.
- It is characteristic of her that she hates trains, that she arrives from a rail-road journey a nervous wreck; but that she can ride a horse steadily for weeks through the most dangerous western passes.
6 Oct 2010:
- The original winner Azizulhasni Awang of Malaysia was relegated after riding too aggressively to storm from fourth to first on the final bend.
- Now, in calm weather, to swim in the open ocean is as easy to the practised swimmer as to ride in a spring-carriage ashore.
- In an elaborately built, indoor San Francisco, passengers ride cable cars through quiet, hilly streets.
- The cab rode him downtown.
- Men once walked where ships at anchor ride .
- By noon the sea went very high indeed, and our ship rode forecastle in, shipped several seas, and we thought once or twice our anchor had come home
- The witch cackled and rode away on her broomstick.
- A horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.
- Womman is mannes Ioye and al his blis / ffor whan I feele a nyght your softe syde / Al be it that I may nat on yow ryde / ffor þat oure perche is maad so narwe allas [...].
- She rode him hard, and he squeezed her breasts, and she came again.
- “One old boy started riding me about not having gone to Vietnam; I just spit my coffee at him, and he backed off.
27 Jul 2008:
- In athletics, triple jumper Ashia Hansen advises a thong for training because, while knickers ride up, ‘thongs have nowhere left to go’: but in Beijing Britain's best are likely, she says, to forgo knickers altogether, preferring to go commando for their country under their GB kit.
- With so much riding on the new payments system, it was thus a grave embarrassment to the government when the tariff for 2006-07 had to be withdrawn for amendments towards the end of February.
16 Sep 2001:
- She's wearing inky-blue jeans that ride low enough on her hips that her aquamarine thong peeks out teasingly at the back.
- The nobility could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, cobblers, and brewers.
- The only men that safe can ride / Mine errands on the Scottish side.
Derived terms
* ride bareback * ride bitch * ride herd on * ride one's luck * ride roughshod over * ride shotgun * ride tall in the saddle * ride the rails * ride the pine * ride with the punchesNoun
(en noun)- Can I have a ride on your bike?
- That is a nice ride you are driving.
- Can you give me a ride ?
- (Wright)