shunt
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[edit] Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ʌnt
[edit] Verb
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to shunt (third-person singular simple present shunts, present participle shunting, simple past and past participle shunted)
- To turn away or aside
- To move a train from one track to another, or to move carriages etc from one train to another
- To divert electric current by providing an alternative path
- To divert the flow of a body fluid using surgery
- (informal) (British) To have a minor collision, especially in a motor car
[edit] Translations
to turn away or aside
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to divert electric current
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to divert the flow of a body fluid
to have a minor collision
[edit] Noun
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shunt (plural shunts)
- A switch on a railway
- A connection used as an alternative path between parts of an electric circuit
- A passage between body channels constructed surgically as a bypass
- (informal) (British) A minor collision