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shunted, past tense; shunts, 3rd person singular present; shunting, present participle; shunted, past participle;
  1. Push or pull (a train or part of a train) from the main line to a siding or from one track to another
    • - their train had been shunted into a siding
  2. Push or shove (someone or something)
    • - chairs were being shunted back and forth
  3. Direct or divert (someone or something) to a less important place or position
    • - amateurs were gradually being shunted to filing jobs
  4. Provide (an electrical current) with a conductor joining two points of a circuit, through which more or less of the current may be diverted

Noun
  1. An act of pushing or shoving something

  2. An electrical conductor joining two points of a circuit, through which more or less of a current may be diverted

  3. An alternative path for the passage of the blood or other body fluid
    • - shunt surgery
  1. a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another; "an arteriovenus shunt"
  2. transfer to another track, of trains
  3. a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current
  4. provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt
  5. implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for draining fluids within the body
  6. (shunter) a small locomotive used to move cars around but not to make trips
  7. In medicine, a shunt is a hole or a small passage which moves, or allows movement of fluid from one part of the body to another. The term may describe either congenital or acquired shunts; and acquired shunts (sometimes referred to as iatrogenic shunts) may be either or .
  8. Shunting, in railway operations, involves the process of sorting items of rolling stock into complete train sets or consists. The United States terminology is "switching".
  9. Shunt is a theatre company based in London, England, founded in 1998.
  10. (Shunters) A switcher or shunter (Great Britain: shunter; Australia: shunter or yard pilot; USA: switcher or switch engine, except Pennsylvania Railroad: shifter) is a small railroad locomotive intended not for moving trains over long distances but rather for assembling trains ready for a road ...
  11. Shunting is an event in the neuron which occurs when an excitatory postsynaptic potential and an inhibitory postsynaptic potential are occurring close to each other on a dendrite, or are both on the soma of the cell.
  12. 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; (UK) A minor collision; To turn away or aside; To move a train from one track to another, or to move carriages etc from one ...
  13. (shunter) A railway locomotive used for shunting; a switcher; A person who carries out shunting operations
  14. (Shunter) a railway worker. When rolling stock is shunted (moved) about to form trains, the Shunter had the dangerous job of coupling the carriages and wagons together, which meant getting in between them, leading to a high risk of injury. ...
  15. (Shunter) the big tough railway engine that boys admired.
  16. (Shunting) A short circuit at the firing end of a spark plug, caused by electrically conductive deposits. Also called shunt firing
  17. (Shunting) Operation related to moving a rail vehicle or set of rail vehicles within a railway installations (station, depot, workshop, marshalling yard, etc.). It mainly concerns the assembly and disassembly of unit trains.
  18. (Shunting) Short circuiting of a (weld) current through a previously applied weld nearby.
  19. (Shunting) The movement required to re-arrange the position of wagons or coaches in a train; To pick-up and set-down wagons in a goods train.
  20. (Shunting) mode, when users work on the tracks.
  21. (shunts) Usually a left to right shunt through a small atrial septal defect in the presence of mitral valve obstruction.
  22. a connector to allow blood flow between two locations.
  23. A tube used to drain a cavity. In the spinal cord, a shunt is used to treat a syrinx by equalizing pressures between the syrinx and the spinal fluids. In spinal bifida, it is used to reduce pressure of hydrocephalus.
  24. An electrical bypass circuit that proportionally divides current flow between the shunt and the shunted equipment. It also allows high current measurements with low-current equipment.
  25. A soft magnetic material used to by-pass, divert, or redirect the magnetic flux from the air gap of a magnet