| wall socket | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. electric outlet, electric receptacle, electrical outlet, outlet, wall plug, wall socket | receptacle providing a place in a wiring system where current can be taken to run electrical devices. |
| ~ power point, point | a wall socket. |
| ~ receptacle | an electrical (or electronic) fitting that is connected to a source of power and equipped to receive an insert. |
| riffle | | |
| n. (event) | 1. riffle, ripple, rippling, wavelet | a small wave on the surface of a liquid. |
| ~ moving ridge, wave | one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water). |
| n. (act) | 2. riffle | shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners. |
| ~ shuffle, make, shuffling | the act of mixing cards haphazardly. |
| v. (contact) | 3. flick, riffle, ruffle | twitch or flutter.; "the paper flicked" |
| ~ move, displace | cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense.; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" |
| v. (perception) | 4. flick, flip, leaf, riff, riffle, thumb | look through a book or other written material.; "He thumbed through the report"; "She leafed through the volume" |
| ~ peruse | examine or consider with attention and in detail.; "Please peruse this report at your leisure" |
| v. (motion) | 5. cockle, riffle, ripple, ruffle, undulate | stir up (water) so as to form ripples. |
| ~ fold, fold up, turn up | bend or lay so that one part covers the other.; "fold up the newspaper"; "turn up your collar" |
| ~ flow, flux | move or progress freely as if in a stream.; "The crowd flowed out of the stadium" |
| v. (contact) | 6. riffle | shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix. |
| ~ card game, cards | a game played with playing cards. |
| ~ shuffle, mix, ruffle | mix so as to make a random order or arrangement.; "shuffle the cards" |
| shuffle | | |
| n. (act) | 1. make, shuffle, shuffling | the act of mixing cards haphazardly. |
| ~ reordering | a rearrangement in a different order. |
| ~ reshuffling, reshuffle | shuffling again.; "the gambler demanded a reshuffle" |
| ~ riffle | shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners. |
| ~ card game, cards | a game played with playing cards. |
| n. (act) | 2. shamble, shambling, shuffle, shuffling | walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet.; "from his shambling I assumed he was very old" |
| ~ walk, walking | the act of traveling by foot.; "walking is a healthy form of exercise" |
| v. (motion) | 3. scuffle, shamble, shuffle | walk by dragging one's feet.; "he shuffled out of the room"; "We heard his feet shuffling down the hall" |
| ~ walk | use one's feet to advance; advance by steps.; "Walk, don't run!"; "We walked instead of driving"; "She walks with a slight limp"; "The patient cannot walk yet"; "Walk over to the cabinet" |
| ~ scuff, drag | walk without lifting the feet. |
| v. (motion) | 4. shuffle | move about, move back and forth.; "He shuffled his funds among different accounts in various countries so as to avoid the IRS" |
| ~ shift, transfer | move around.; "transfer the packet from his trouser pockets to a pocket in his jacket" |
| v. (contact) | 5. mix, ruffle, shuffle | mix so as to make a random order or arrangement.; "shuffle the cards" |
| ~ manipulate | hold something in one's hands and move it. |
| ~ reshuffle | shuffle again.; "So as to prevent cheating, he was asked to reshuffle the cards" |
| ~ riffle | shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix. |
| ~ cut | divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult.; "Wayne cut"; "She cut the deck for a long time" |
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