knockdown vs shuffle

knockdown

noun
  • a short pass played downwards, for example from the head onto someone's feet. 

  • The condition of a sailboat being pushed abruptly to horizontal, with the mast parallel to the water surface. 

  • An act of knocking down or the condition of being knocked down. 

  • A shelter erected for use as a temporary dressing room. 

  • A collection of parts required to assemble a product, typically manufactured in one region and exported elsewhere for assembly. 

  • A genetically modified organism that carries one or more genes in its chromosomes that have been made less active or had their expression reduced. 

  • The use of a reagent such as an oligonucleotide with sequence complementary to an active gene or its mRNA transcript, to interfere with the expression of said gene. 

  • An overwhelming blow. 

adj
  • To be formed into a head by upsetting in fastening. 

  • reduced in price, originally to a price below which an article would not be sold by the auctioneer 

  • powerful enough to overwhelm or knock down 

  • Capable of being taken apart for packing or removal. 

verb
  • To employ the knockdown technique 

shuffle

noun
  • An instance of walking without lifting one's feet. 

  • The act of shuffling cards. 

  • 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. 

  • The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player. 

  • A dance move in which the foot is scuffed across the floor back and forth. 

  • A trick; an artifice; an evasion. 

verb
  • To put in a random order. 

  • To remove or introduce by artificial confusion. 

  • To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another. 

  • To change; modify the order of something. 

  • To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate. 

  • To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing. 

  • To use arts or expedients; to make shift. 

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