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Shunt   /ʃənt/   Listen
Shunt

noun
1.
A passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another.
2.
A conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current.  Synonyms: bypass, electrical shunt.
3.
Implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for draining fluids within the body.
verb
(past & past part. shunted; pres. part. shunting)
1.
Transfer to another track, of trains.
2.
Provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt.



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"Shunt" Quotes from Famous Books



... eternal pointsmen lying in wait by the line, to shunt one's train of thought from ...
— The Home and the World • Rabindranath Tagore
... officer, chief engineer, and myself, and, of course, the Company's general manager at Sydney, know of it; even my own bedroom steward has no idea that there is a second safe, although he turns out my cabin twice a week for a general cleaning. If he did discover the fact, I should have to shunt him at once, as he is quite a new ...
— Tom Gerrard - 1904 • Louis Becke
... that's a poor compliment to yourself surely, to think I'd run away from you as soon as I saw your eyes were closed. No, no, I've got charge of you till you are well and strong again, though maybe I'll have hard work to shunt you at all then, you'll be so used to being nursed. But I had to come and drive while I sent the old man on ahead to get the door open and a fire alight so as to give you something hot to cheer you as soon as ...
— The Rider of Waroona • Firth Scott
... time being, never rose to the dignity of a cinema. Like the inhabitants of a certain country village in the North of England, if you wanted distraction at Ludd you went to the station and watched the trains shunt. ...
— With Our Army in Palestine • Antony Bluett
... reasonable, ain't it? Three quid ain't much compensation for me goin' away for ever—where the stormy winds do blow, so to say—an' never as much as seein' me own wife agin for better nor wuss. Between man an' man, now, three quid, an' I'll shunt. That's fair, ain't it?" ...
— Stories By English Authors: London • Various


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