different between crawl vs shuffle
crawl
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: krôl, IPA(key): /k???l/
- (cot–caught merger) enPR: kräl, IPA(key): /k??l/
- Rhymes: -??l
Etymology 1
From Middle English crawlen, creulen, *cravelen, from Old Norse krafla (compare Danish kravle (“to crawl, creep”), Swedish kravla), from Proto-Germanic *krabl?n? (compare Dutch krabbelen, Low German krabbeln, Middle High German krappeln), frequentative of *krabb?n? (“to scratch, scrape”). More at crab.
Verb
crawl (third-person singular simple present crawls, present participle crawling, simple past and past participle crawled)
- (intransitive) To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.
- 1701, Nehemiah Grew, Cosmologia Sacra
- A worm finds what it searches after only by feeling, as it crawls from one thing to another.
- 1701, Nehemiah Grew, Cosmologia Sacra
- (intransitive) To move forward slowly, with frequent stops.
- (intransitive) To act in a servile manner.
- (intransitive, with "with") See crawl with.
- (intransitive) To feel a swarming sensation.
- (intransitive) To swim using the crawl stroke.
- (transitive) To move over an area on hands and knees.
- (Should we delete(+) this sense?)(intransitive) To visit while becoming inebriated.
- (transitive) To visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching.
Derived terms
- crawler
Descendants
- German: kraulen
Translations
Noun
crawl (plural crawls)
- The act of moving slowly on hands and knees etc, or with frequent stops.
- A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick.
- (figuratively) A very slow pace.
- My computer has slowed down to a crawl since I installed that software package.
- (television, film) A piece of horizontally or vertically scrolling text overlaid on the main image.
- 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[2]
- The opening crawl (and a stirring propaganda movie) informs us that “The Hunger Games” are an annual event in Panem, a North American nation divided into 12 different districts, each in service to the Capitol, a wealthy metropolis that owes its creature comforts to an oppressive dictatorship.
- 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[2]
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Portuguese: crol, crawl
Translations
Etymology 2
Compare kraal.
Noun
crawl (plural crawls)
- A pen or enclosure of stakes and hurdles for holding fish.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English crawl.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?ol/
Noun
crawl m (plural crawls)
- crawl (swimming stroke)
Further reading
- “crawl” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English crawl.
Noun
crawl m (plural crawl)
- crawl (swimming stroke)
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English crawl.
Noun
crawl m (uncountable)
- (proscribed) Alternative spelling of crol
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from English crawl.
Noun
crawl c (uncountable)
- crawl; swimming stroke
Declension
Related terms
- crawla
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shuffle
English
Etymology
Originally the same word as scuffle, and properly a frequentative of shove.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???f?l/
- Rhymes: -?f?l
Noun
shuffle (plural shuffles)
- The act of shuffling cards.
- The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player.
- 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.
- (dance) A dance move in which the foot is scuffed across the floor back and forth.
- A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
Quotations
- 1995, Mel Kernahan, White savages in the South Seas, Verso, page 113:
- 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, page 394:
- 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, page 148:
- Around her, she could hear the shuffle of her own hands, disturbing the shelves.
Derived terms
- lost in the shuffle
Translations
Verb
shuffle (third-person singular simple present shuffles, present participle shuffling, simple past and past participle shuffled)
- (transitive, intransitive) To put in a random order.
- To change; modify the order of something.
- (transitive, intransitive) To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
- To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
- To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
- To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.
- To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
Synonyms
- (walk without picking up one's feet): shamble
Derived terms
Translations
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From English shuffle.
Verb
shuffle (present tense shuffler, simple past and past participle shufflet)
- to shuffle (including dancing the shuffle, playing shuffleboard)
References
- “shuffle_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
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