shuffle

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All that's left control-wise on the shuffle is a three-position power, shuffle, and ordered play switch; Apple has even removed the power indicator, apparently, and replaced it with a VoiceOver prompt to recharge the device.

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  1. transitive verb To slide (the feet) along the floor or ground while walking.
  2. transitive verb To move (something) from one place to another; transfer or shift.
  3. transitive verb To put aside or under cover quickly; shunt: shuffled the bill under a pile of junk mail.
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  • KCBS Technology Analyst Larry Magid says despite getting lost in the shuffle, the Blackberry Bold is familiar, high res., and easy to use. —  KCBS Bay Area News
  • Lost in the shuffle was a plan that would radically change money-market mutual funds. —  MarketWatch.com - Top Stories
  • As for the shuffle, Apple could make these things smaller, but that'd probably just be impractical and inconvenient for the user -- and the world leader in industrial design isn't going to mess this up. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • Liberal Leader Stephen McNeil said the shuffle is an attempt to put "a new paint job on an old car." —  The Chronicle Herald - Front Page Stories
  • But lost in the shuffle is the greater dynamic: Gregg himself and the fact that Obama, while talking a good game about bipartisanship, is draining the Senate of the very talent he needs to achieve this goal. —  MyDD
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scrape ·  thud ·  footfall ·  clatter ·  rumble ·  creak ·  patter ·  scuffle ·  rustle ·  stir ·  crunch ·  gait

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shuffle:   Shuffle ·  shuffled ·  shuffling
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English shovelen, probably of Middle Dutch or Middle Low German origin.

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  1. Formerly also *shoffle, shoffel (in Middle English shovelen: see shovel); =Middle Dutch schuffelen, drive on, run away, =Low German schuffeln, schüfeln, move dragging the feet, shuffle, mix or shuffle (cards), play false, eat greedily; a freq. form, also in unassibilated form scuffle, of shove, but prob. in part confused with the verb shovel, which is ult. from the same verb shove: see shove, scuffle.
 

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