clump vs shuffle

clump

verb
  • To walk with heavy footfalls. 

  • To gather in dense groups. 

  • To form clusters or lumps. 

  • To strike; to beat. 

noun
  • A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair. 

  • A small group of trees or plants. 

  • A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass. 

  • A dull thud. 

  • A thick addition to the sole of a shoe. 

  • The compressed clay of coal strata. 

shuffle

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

  • 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 use arts or expedients; to make shift. 

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. 

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