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Shunt
01
a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Inanimate
Composition
Simple
Countable
Plural form
shunts
02
a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current
03
implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for draining fluids within the body
to shunt
01
to move a train or part of a train from one track to another
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
Movement verb
Regular
Present tense
shunt
3rd person singular
shunts
Present participle
shunting
Past simple
shunted
Past participle
shunted
Examples
The engineer had to shunt the freight cars to a different track.
02
to move or transfer something, often with a sudden or forceful motion
Examples
The workers shunt the crates onto the conveyor belt for loading onto the truck.
