(n.) One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level.
(n.) A place where butcher's meat is sold.
(n.) A place for slaughtering animals for meat.
(v. i.) To walk awkwardly and unsteadily, as if the knees were weak; to shuffle along.
Example Sentences:
(1) Staff had to make paper records of 999 calls in what one ambulance crew member described as “a shambles”.
(2) David Winnick, the MP for Walsall North, said: "None of [May's] excuses can explain away the sheer incompetence and shambles that have occurred on her watch."
(3) The leader of the RMT rail union, Bob Crow, said: "The whole sorry and expensive shambles of rail privatisation has been dragged into the spotlight this morning and instead of re-running this expensive circus, the west coast route should be renationalised on a permanent basis."
(4) It would be a travesty if their first experience of democracy was this shambles.
(5) Dan Barron blames this result on the maroon jerseys, while Greg Phillips nominates the theme to Ronnie Corbett vehicle Sorry as the perfect Hazlehurst soundtrack for this shambles.
(6) Ball's camp, meanwhile, denied that he was seeking a right of veto over the non-executive chairman, describing the process as "a shambles" in which the former BSkyB executive was presented with a fait accompli rather than being properly consulted about who he should work with.
(7) In his piece, Gove criticises historians and TV programmes that denigrate patriotism and courage by depicting the war as a "misbegotten shambles".
(8) The government’s overhaul of primary-school assessments has turned into a shambles, according to the teachers who will have to carry them out from next month, with complaints that seven- and 11-year-old pupils find the new standards too hard and too confusing.
(9) As Longford (Channel 4), he seemed to be playing not just the shambling man but his shining soul.
(10) Philip Hammond needs to get a grip and sort this shambles out."
(11) He can build on material we have collected but reaching a fair outline in three months seems impossible – but I don’t think that is his objective anyway.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Christopher Pyne says Labor has left the Coalition with a shambles and a $1.2bn shortfall.
(12) One publisher, unwilling to speak on the record, agreed, saying that "the consensus does seem to be that the Booker this year is a bit of a shambles", with the panel "lacking in authority" and "a bit confused about what the prize is for".
(13) Lloyd George, Gladstone, Churchill - he reluctantly resigned at 80 in 1955 after a four-year rearguard action – Thatcher of course, Macmillan too, were shambles.
(14) Photograph: Fabio De Paola Roxanne McMurray, spokesperson for the advocacy group SOS Women’s Services, told Background Briefing that following last year’s reforms, services across the state were in a shambles.
(15) It was on the 37th lap of the 61-lap race that a man was seen shambling along the side of the track on the straight near turn 13.
(16) Related story Dome management was 'shambles' Related special report The Millennium Dome Useful links The full National Audit Office report Executive summary of the report
(17) Dromey called the law "a shambles", benefiting neither candidates nor electors.
(18) My local authority is a shambles, so the sooner control is taken away from local government and administered nationally, the better, but I do worry about how they are going to work it all out.
(19) "Partly because I want to see Will Hughes in the top flight by getting there rather than waving from a Manchester subs bench, partly because they're far less of an expensive shambles than QPR, partly because Redknapps annoy me but mainly so it's really easy for me to watch Everton once a year."
(20) Ministers seem to be working hard to make their new police and crime commissioner elections a shambles – providing too little information, costly elections in cold dark November, the helpline not working , ballot papers reprinted .
Shuffle
Definition:
(v. t.) To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
(v. i.) To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to shuffle and cut.
(v. i.) To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
(v. i.) To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
(v. i.) To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
(n.) The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion.
(n.) A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
Example Sentences:
(1) When randomly shuffled herpes virus sequences were examined each algorithm detected many such patterns but the scoring algorithm found fewer than the selection algorithm.
(2) The kinetics of appearance of the slowly-dissociating form, and its dependence upon ionic strength, are fully consistent with the shuffling model.
(3) By shuffling constant region domains between IgG3 and IgG4, we showed that sequence variation in the CH3 domain is responsible for WMac-derived RF differentiation of IgG3 and IgG4.
(4) The new channel, which has been developed under the code name Project Shuffle, will allow viewers who missed the first live broadcast of Channel 4's most popular shows the opportunity to catch up with them over the next seven nights.
(5) The data thus obtained are compatible with those produced in previous exon-shuffling experiments, but permit a much more precise definition of recognized epitope(s).
(6) The job shuffle follows a major restructure of ITN last November, as part of a move to bring the company back to profitability, which included ITN Productions bringing together the multimedia production arms of ITN On, ITN Factual and ITN Consulting.
(7) Gene segment duplication and exon shuffling may have contributed to the evolution of this cell type-specific transcriptional regulatory gene.
(8) Sometimes, it is because a senior minister will not accept the sideways shuffle that is envisaged for them, and sometimes it is simply because the prime minister loses his nerve.
(9) Thirty-six percent of the cases displayed at least 1 of the following "parkinsonian symptoms": bradykinesia, tremor, rigidity, loss of postural reflexes and a shuffling gait.
(10) That rock-star treatment then gets paid off with stale one-liners from the previous decade that sound like they were organized by shuffling notecards.
(11) By shuffling nucleotides in a given sequence or by substituting selected nucleotides to alter various positions in both periodic and aperiodic sequences, we have found that an excess or deficiency of a given nucleotide at one of the three positions in a triplet reading frame can simulate the periodic characteristic.
(12) Her stooped figure shuffles slowly in, manoeuvring a giant shopping trolley around the door.
(13) Analysis of protein sequences shows that many proteins in multicellular organisms have evolved by a process of exon shuffling, deletion and duplication.
(14) Leaders who are particularly nervy end up rearranging the Whitehall furniture to try to keep everyone happy – removing energy from trade and industry, or science from education, to create new fiefdoms; or adding such responsibilities back in to try to convince ministers disgruntled at not being shuffled up that they are instead being promoted through the expansion of their empire.
(15) These divergences involve entire peptide subsegments and are concentrated in the same domains as are encoded by alternatively spliced exons, suggesting that exon shuffling may have contributed to the evolution of troponin T.
(16) We have chosen to carry out the exon shuffling experiments between these two different types of class I genes, because they are structurally similar and did not evolve to carry out identical functions.
(17) This review also discusses site-directed mutagenesis and exon shuffling studies and the effect of these changes on the function of Ia genes.
(18) Comparison of the sequences of the 5' ends of the lck and c-src genes suggests that divergence of these two genes involved exon shuffling and that a homolog of the neuronal c-src(+) exon is not present in lck.
(19) The ball is in Cameron's court – or in someone else's court when his Conservative-led coalition shuffles off into history.
(20) Here, we report the first direct evidence for exon shuffling.