Associations to the word «Shunt»

Wiktionary

SHUNT, verb. (obsolete) (UK) (dialect) To turn away or aside.
SHUNT, verb. (obsolete) (UK) (dialect) To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove.
SHUNT, verb. To move a train from one track to another, or to move carriages etc from one train to another.
SHUNT, verb. To divert electric current by providing an alternative path.
SHUNT, verb. To divert the flow of a body fluid using surgery.
SHUNT, verb. To move data in memory to a physical disk.
SHUNT, verb. (informal) (British) To have a minor collision, especially in a motor car.
SHUNT, verb. To provide with a shunt.
SHUNT, verb. To divert to a less important place, position or state
SHUNT, noun. A switch on a railway
SHUNT, noun. A connection used as an alternative path between parts of an electric circuit
SHUNT, noun. A passage between body channels constructed surgically as a bypass
SHUNT, noun. (informal) (British) A minor collision
SHUNT, noun. (firearms) 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.

Dictionary definition

SHUNT, noun. A passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another; "an arteriovenus shunt".
SHUNT, noun. A conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current.
SHUNT, noun. Implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for draining fluids within the body.
SHUNT, verb. Transfer to another track, of trains.
SHUNT, verb. Provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt.

Wise words

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