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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another; "an arteriovenus shunt"
2: a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current [syn: shunt, electrical shunt, bypass]
3: implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for draining fluids within the body v
1: transfer to another track, of trains
2: provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt

Merriam Webster's

I. verb Etymology: Middle English, to move suddenly, turn away, evade, perhaps from past participle of shonen Date: 13th century transitive verb 1. a. to turn off to one side ; shift <was shunted aside> b. to switch (as a train) from one track to another 2. to provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt 3. to divert (blood) from one part to another by a surgical shunt 4. shuttle <shunted the missiles from shelter to shelter> intransitive verb 1. to move to the side 2. to travel back and forth <shunted between the two towns> • shunter noun II. noun Date: 1842 1. a means or mechanism for turning or thrusting aside: as a. chiefly British a railroad switch b. a conductor joining two points in an electrical circuit so as to form a parallel or alternative path through which a portion of the current may pass (as for regulating the amount passing in the main circuit) c. a surgical passage created to divert a bodily fluid (as blood) from one vessel or part to another; also a device (as a narrow tube) used to establish a similar passage 2. chiefly British an accident (as a collision between two cars) especially in auto racing

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v. 1 intr. & tr. diverge or cause (a train) to be diverted esp. on to a siding. 2 tr. Electr. provide (a current) with a shunt. 3 tr. a postpone or evade. b divert (a decision etc.) on to another person etc. --n. 1 the act or an instance of shunting on to a siding. 2 Electr. a conductor joining two points of a circuit, through which more or less of a current may be diverted. 3 Surgery an alternative path for the circulation of the blood. 4 sl. a motor accident, esp. a collision of vehicles travelling one close behind another. Derivatives: shunter n. Etymology: ME, perh. f. SHUN

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Shunt Shunt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Shunting.] [Prov. E., to move from, to put off, fr. OE. shunten, schunten, schounten; cf. D. schuinte a slant, slope, Icel. skunda to hasten. Cf. Shun.] 1. To shun; to move from. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] 2. To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Ash. 3. To turn off to one side; especially, to turn off, as a grain or a car upon a side track; to switch off; to shift. For shunting your late partner on to me. --T. Hughes. 4. (Elec.) To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Shunt Shunt, n. [Cf. D. schuinte slant, slope, declivity. See Shunt, v. t.] 1. (Railroad) A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free. 2. (Elec.) A conducting circuit joining two points in a conductor, or the terminals of a galvanometer or dynamo, so as to form a parallel or derived circuit through which a portion of the current may pass, for the purpose of regulating the amount passing in the main circuit. 3. (Gunnery) 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. Shunt dynamo (Elec.), a dynamo in which the field circuit is connected with the main circuit so as to form a shunt to the letter, thus employing a portion of the current from the armature to maintain the field. Shunt gun, a firearm having shunt rifling. See under Rifling.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Shunt Shunt, v. i. To go aside; to turn off.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(shunts, shunting, shunted) 1. If a person or thing is shunted somewhere, they are moved or sent there, usually because someone finds them inconvenient. He has spent most of his life being shunted between his mother, father and various foster families... VERB: usu passive, be V-ed prep/adv [disapproval] 2. When railway engines shunt wagons or carriages, they push or pull them from one railway line to another. The GM diesel engine shunted the coaches to Platform 4. VERB: V n prep/adv

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. [Eng.] Switch (from one set of rails to another).

Moby Thesaurus

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