Shuffle vs. Mix — What's the Difference?

To move with short sliding steps, without or barely lifting the feet

To combine or blend into one mass or mixture

To dance casually with sliding and tapping steps.

To create or form by combining ingredients

To shift from position to position or move from place to place

To add (an ingredient or element) to another

To present, play, or display (music or video files) in random order.

To combine or join

(Games) To mix playing cards, tiles, or dominoes together so as to make their order random.

To bring into social contact

(Archaic) To act in a shifty or deceitful manner; equivocate.

To produce (an organism) by crossbreeding.

To slide (the feet) along the floor or ground while walking.

To combine (two or more audio tracks or channels) to produce a composite audio recording.

To move (things, for example) from one place or position to another; transfer or shift

To produce (a soundtrack or recording) in this manner.

To put quickly or furtively; shunt

To become combined or blended together

To present, play, or display music or video files in random order.

To be capable of being blended together

(Games) To mix together (playing cards or tiles, for example) so as to make a random order of arrangement.

To associate socially or get along with others

A short sliding step or movement, or a walk characterized by such steps.

To mate so as to produce a hybrid; crossbreed.

A dance in which the feet slide along or move close to the floor.

To become involved

A confused mixture or state of things; a jumble

A combination of diverse elements

A feature on a music or video player that plays music or other files in a random order.

A mixture of ingredients packaged and sold commercially

An act of shuffling cards, dominoes, or tiles.

A recording that is produced by combining and adjusting two or more audio tracks or channels.

A player's right or turn to do this.

An animal resulting from interbreeding, especially a dog or cat of mixed breed.

(Archaic) An evasive or deceitful action; an equivocation.

(transitive) To stir together.

The act of shuffling cards.

(transitive) To combine (items from two or more sources normally kept separate).

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

(ambitransitive) To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to concoct from different parts.

An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.

(transitive) To blend by the use of a mixer machine.

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.

To combine (several tracks).

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

To produce a finished version of (a recording).

A trick; an artifice; an evasion.

(ambitransitive) To unite with in company; to join; to associate.

(ambitransitive) To put in a random order.

The result of mixing two or more substances; a mixture.

To change; modify the order of something.

The result of combining items normally kept separate.

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

(music) The result of mixing several tracks.

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

(music) The finished version of a recording.

To use arts or expedients; to make shift.

A substance used to dilute or adulterate an illicit drug.

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

To cause a promiscuous interpenetration of the parts of, as of two or more substances with each other, or of one substance with others; to unite or blend into one mass or compound, as by stirring together; to mingle; to blend; as, to mix flour and salt; to mix wines.

To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.

To unite with in company; to join; to associate.

To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.

To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to compound of different parts.

To mix by pushing or shoving; to confuse; to throw into disorder; especially, to change the relative positions of, as of the cards in a pack.

To combine (two or more activities) within a specified or implied time frame; as, to mix studying and partying while at college.

To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.

To become united into a compound; to be blended promiscuously together.

To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to shuffle and cut.

To associate; to mingle; as, Democrats and Republicans mixed freely at the party.

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

A commercially prepared mixture of dry ingredients

To use arts or expedients; to make shift.

An event that combines things in a mixture;

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

The act of mixing together;

The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion.

Mix together different elements;

A trick; an artifice; an evasion.

Open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups;

The act of mixing cards haphazardly

To bring or combine together or with something else;

Walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet;

As of electronic signals;

Walk by dragging one's feet;

Add as an additional element or part;

Move about, move back and forth;

Mix so as to make a random order or arrangement;

Mix so as to make a random order or arrangement;