shuffle vs shift

shift vs shuffle

shuffle and shift both are nouns.

shuffle and shift both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
shuffle	Yes	No	Yes	No
shift	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, shift is a hypernym of shuffle; that is, shift is a word with a broader meaning than shuffle:

shuffle: move about, move back and forth
shift: move around

Other hypernyms of shuffle include transfer.

shuffle (noun)	shift (noun)
the act of mixing cards haphazardly	the act of moving from one place to another
walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet	the act of changing one thing or position for another
	a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
	a woman's sleeveless undergarment
	the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters
	an event in which something is displaced without rotation
	a qualitative change
	a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time
	(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
	the time period during which you are at work

shuffle (verb)	shift (verb)
mix so as to make a random order or arrangement	make a shift in or exchange of
walk by dragging one's feet	move and exchange for another
move about, move back and forth	lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
	move from one setting or context to another
	change in quality
	change gears
	change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change
	use a shift key on a keyboard
	change place or direction
	move very slightly
	move around
	move abruptly
	move sideways or in an unsteady way

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