different between shuffle vs wander

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)

1. The act of shuffling cards.

2. The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player.
3. An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.

4. (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.
5. (dance) A dance move in which the foot is scuffed across the floor back and forth.
6. 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)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To put in a random order.

2. To change; modify the order of something.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
4. To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
5. To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
6. To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.

7. 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)

1. to shuffle (including dancing the shuffle, playing shuffleboard)

References

• “shuffle_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

English

Etymology

From Middle English wandren, wandrien, from Old English wandrian (“to wander, roam, fly around, hover; change; stray, err”), from Proto-Germanic *wandr?n? (“to wander”), from Proto-Indo-European *wend?- (“to turn, wind”), equivalent to wend +? -er (frequentative suffix). Cognate with Scots wander (“to wander”), German wandern (“to wander, roam, hike, migrate”), Swedish vandra (“to wander, hike”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w?nd?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?w?nd?/
• (West Midlands, especially Birmingham) IPA^(key): /?w?nd?/, IPA^(key): /?w?nd?/
• Rhymes: -?nd?(?)
• Hyphenation: wan?der

Verb

wander (third-person singular simple present wanders, present participle wandering, simple past and past participle wandered)

1. (intransitive) To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.

   • They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins.

   • “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; […]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.

   Synonyms: err, roam

2. (intransitive) To stray; stray from one's course; err.
   • Bible, Psalms cxix.10:

     O, let me not wander from thy commandments.

3. (intransitive) To commit adultery.

   Synonym: cheat

4. (intransitive) To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path.
5. (intransitive) Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention.

   Synonym: drift

Conjugation

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

wander (countable and uncountable, plural wanders)

1. (countable) The act or instance of wandering.

2. (uncountable) The situation where a value or signal etc. deviates from the correct or normal value.

   Hyponym: polar wander

   baseline wander in ECG signals

Translations

Anagrams

• Andrew, Darwen, Warden, drawne, warden, warned

German

Pronunciation

Verb

wander

1. inflection of wandern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative