shunt /ʃʌnt/verb 10noun 7forms 3 verb10 •To cause to move (suddenly), as by pushing or shoving; to give a (sudden) start to. •To divert to a less important place, position, or state. •To 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. — 1846 •To provide with a shunt. •To divert electric current by providing an alternative path. •To 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. — 1987 •(UK, informal) To have a minor collision, especially in a motor car. •To move data in memory to a physical disk. •(UK, historical) To carry on arbitrage between the London stock exchange and provincial stock exchanges. •(dialect, no longer used) To turn aside or away; to divert. noun7 •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. — 2017 •An abnormal passage between body channels. •A passage between body channels constructed surgically as a bypass; a tube inserted into the body to create such a passage. •(UK, informal) A minor collision between vehicles. •A connection used as an alternative path between parts of an electrical circuit. •A switch on a railway used to move a train from one track to another. •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. formsshunted · shunting · shunts
