shuffle vs turtle

shuffle

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

  • 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 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. 

turtle

noun
  • A breakdancing move consisting of a float during which the dancer's weight shifts from one hand to the other, producing rotation or a circular "walk". 

  • A small element towards the end of a list of items to be bubble sorted, and thus tending to take a long time to be swapped into its correct position. Compare rabbit. 

  • A type of robot having a domed case (and so resembling the reptile), used in education, especially for making line drawings by means of a computer program. 

  • An Ancient Roman attack method, where the shields held by the soldiers hide them, not only left, right, front and back, but also from above. 

  • A low stand for a lamp etc. 

  • An on-screen cursor that serves the same function as a turtle for drawing. 

  • A marine reptile of that order. 

  • The curved plate in which the form is held in a type-revolving cylinder press. 

  • Any land or marine reptile of the order Testudines, characterised by a protective shell enclosing its body. See also tortoise. 

verb
  • To turn and swim upside down. 

  • To hunt turtles, especially in the water. 

  • To build up a large defense force and strike only occasionally, rather than going for an offensive strategy. 

  • To flip over onto the back or top; to turn upside down. 

  • To move along slowly. 

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