/ʃʌnt/, /ʃʌnt/, /ʃənt/
- transitiveTo cause to move (suddenly), as by pushing or shoving; to give a (sudden) start to.
“For we are all shunting—shunting—shunting / We're all shunting in this queer world of ours. / Nations are shunted like to our railway carriages: / As Napoleon shunted la belle France into war; / Princ”
“The comet was burning blue in the distance, like a sickly torch, when I first sighted him, but he begun to grow bigger and bigger as I crept up on him. […] Thinks I, it won't do to run into him, so I ”
- transitiveTo divert to a less important place, position, or state.
“Here in England it is, thank God! the custom for us to shunt ourselves off the grand trunk railroad of business, in tearing up and down which our lives are mainly passed, into some quiet siding once e”
“This important question of the acquisition of Native lands has been treated as a perfect shuttlecock in the hands of the Government. […] So far as we know, it has not even been circulated amongst the ”
“Even as the new king appeared on the balcony of Buckingham Palace in a downpour to view a weather-attenuated flyby, much of the press attention focused on Harry’s absence. (Charles’s heir, Prince Will”
- transitiveTo provide with a shunt.
“to shunt a galvanometer”
“Routine preoperative shunting of tumor patients is no longer common practice because many patients remain shunt free after tumor removal. Dias and Albright reported a series of 58 patients with poster”
- transitiveTo move data in memory to a physical disk.
“A momentary power spike had caused a blip, forcing the backup system to shunt Carella's current work into a safety file. It was standard operating procedure, a decision made by the online computer its”
- transitiveTo divert electric current by providing an alternative path.
“The method of running an electric motor herein set out, which consists in starting the motor with the two halves of its armature in series with a resistance in a two-pole field, then gradually cutting”
- transitiveTo move a train from one track to another, or to move carriages, etc. from one train to another.
“Porter, run over while shunting a luggage train, in consequence of his getting entangled in shunting-rope.”
“But despite its plague of tunnels, the run-in on this route is of unusual interest to the locomotive enthusiast: besides the hordes of self-important saddle-tanks shunting in the extensive yards, ther”
“On arrival at Spiez, the locomotive (No. 206) was immediately uncoupled and drew ahead to enable an Italian through coach from Interlaken to Milan to be loose shunted (with passengers aboard and contr”
- British, informal, transitiveTo have a minor collision, especially in a motor car.
“The main argument for the use of culpability as a categorizer is that some accidents can be said to be independent of the behaviour of at least one of the drivers, for example, being shunted when havi”
- transitiveTo divert the flow of a body fluid.
“There are times when one has no alternative other than to attempt to shunt the cerebrospinal fluid into the pleural cavity, a potential space, which may occasionally be capable of absorbing the fluid.”
- British, dialectal, obsolete, transitiveTo turn aside or away; to divert.
- UK, historicalTo carry on arbitrage between the London stock exchange and provincial stock exchanges.
- An act of moving (suddenly), as due to a push or shove.
“Blindside loosie Jerome Kaino got [Conor] Murray after he'd kicked in the 10th minute, then the halfback hurt a wrist after Brodie Retallick gave him a shunt.”
- A connection used as an alternative path between parts of an electrical circuit.
“The sensibility of a galvanometer may be varied in a very simple manner by the use of what is termed a shunt. A shunt is a resistance coil, or coil of fine wire used to divert some definite portion of”
- The shifting of the studs on a projectile from the deep to the shallow sides of the grooves in its discharge from a shunt gun.
“In length, this gun was the same as the French, but weighed 9 cwt. less. It was rifled in six grooves on the shunt plan, in the form in which it has been generally applied to large guns, with the diff”
“The shunt system, of which the 64-pr. is the only example now in the service, has been considered inferior to the Woolwich, because besides being unnecessarily complicated, the grooves which are cut w”
- An abnormal passage between body channels.
“Portosystemic shunts can be congenital or acquired with congenital PSS commonly comprising a single communicating vessel between the portal venous circulation and the systemic circulation via the caud”
- A passage between body channels constructed surgically as a bypass; a tube inserted into the body to create such a passage.
“We present an extremely rare case of delayed and combined ventriculoperitoneal shunt blockage, viscus perforation and migration into the urethra manifested by a repeated urinary tract infection. This ”
- A switch on a railway used to move a train from one track to another.
“These improvements consist, firstly, in a novel construction of apparatus to be attached to or applied upon railways, at those parts termed switches, shunts, or moveable rails, which are commonly used”
- British, informalA minor collision between vehicles.
“At the first race in Brazil, I became involved in a four-car shunt. I won't go into too much detail now, except to say that the accident had nothing to do with me. […] Everyone else was avoiding the a”
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