英语词汇“shunt”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典-新都网

单词

shunt

释义

shunt¹ verbshunt² noun

shuntshunt1 /ʃʌnt/ verb [transitive]

WORD ORIGINshunt1

Origin:

1200-1300 Perhaps from shun

VERB TABLE

shunt

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	shunt
	he, she, it	shunts
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	shunted
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have shunted
	he, she, it	has shunted
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had shunted
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will shunt
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have shunted

Continuous Form
Present	I	am shunting
	he, she, it	is shunting
	you, we, they	are shunting
Past	I, he, she, it	was shunting
	you, we, they	were shunting
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been shunting
	he, she, it	has been shunting
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been shunting
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be shunting
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been shunting

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

Blood is shunted to the liver, where it can be filtered.
I'm sick of being shunted from one department to another.
The company's solution to dealing with incompetent staff seems to be to shunt them into clerical jobs.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

A train of thought shunted its way through Hugh's mind.
For eight or nine months Mike was shunted from foster home to foster home.
He had been shunted into a side-line and was now out of the mainstream traffic for good.
I did what I could to reassure him, but once the operation began, I was shunted aside and forgotten.
In such arteriovenous malformations, much of the oxygenated arterial blood is shunted directly into the veins without ever traversing the capillaries.
She then returned to back into the siding and collected her own carriages, shunting them back into Holyhead Station!
Tactics that shunted money into the hands of prime ministers or sycophantic merchants did not generally help the citizens of a nation.
The army had whole gay battalions who they just shunted aside and let be.

Longman Language Activatorto move a company or its people to another place► move

: move somebody (from something) to something · The Education Department is considering moving 500 full-time staff to Runcorn.move something (from something) to something · The company says it will move its distribution center to Chicago early next year.

► transfer

to move someone from one place to another, especially to another job, department, or office within the same organization: transfer to: · Davidson transferred to another department last October.transfer somebody (from something) to something: · One option would be to transfer Struthers from London to New York.· Harding has been transferred to Albany prison, where he will complete his sentence.

► relocate

to permanently move part or all of a company to another place, especially when this brings financial advantages: · If rents continue to rise, many local businesses may decide to relocate.relocate to/in: · The federal government is offering attractive tax breaks to corporations that relocate in areas of high unemployment.relocate something to/in something: · We're relocating our educational software division to North Carolina.

► shunt

informal to move someone from one job to another, especially a less important one: shunt somebody from/to/into something: · I'm sick of being shunted from one department to another.· The company's solution to dealing with incompetent staff seems to be to shunt them into clerical jobs.

WORD SETS► Trains & Railways

baggage car, nounbaggage room, nounboat train, nounboxcar, nounBR, nounbuffer, nouncaboose, nouncarriage, nouncattle truck, nounchoo-choo, nouncoach, nouncommunication cord, nounconductor, nouncouchette, nouncowcatcher, nouncutting, nounday return, noundepartures board, noundepot, nounderail, verbdining car, nounelectrify, verbemergency cord, nounengine, nounexpress, nounflatcar, nounfreight, nounfreight train, noungauge, noungrade, noungrade crossing, noungradient, nounguard, nounguard's van, nounhandcar, nouninbound, adjectivelight railway, nounline, nounlineman, nounlocal, nounlocomotive, nounloop, nounmail train, nounmain line, nounmetro, nounmonorail, nounnarrow gauge, nounplatform, nounPullman, nounrail, nounrailroad, nounrailway, nounrailway line, nounrailway station, nounrapid transit system, nounrestaurant car, nounrolling stock, nounshunt, verbshunt, nounsiding, nounsignal, nounsignal box, nounsignalman, nounsleeper, nounsleeping car, nounspur, nounstation master, nounsteam, nounstock car, nounsubway, nountender, nounterminus, nounthrust, nountrack, nountrain, nountrain spotter, nountruck, nounturntable, nounvan, nounvestibule, nounwagon, nounway station, noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► aside

· The army had whole gay battalions who they just shunted aside and let be.· I did what I could to reassure him, but once the operation began, I was shunted aside and forgotten.· But effectively, both he and Negroponte had been shunted aside.· The leftists have lost much of their political might as their leaders have died, retired or been shunted aside.· Both Zoia and Nicu showed early promise in mathematics and teachers or professors too blind to recognize it were shunted aside.· The moral benefits of simple living were eventually shunted aside by the tactics of the emergent advertising industry.· All the patience and calm expectations that the Niners promised for the season of Mariucci I seemed to be shunted aside.

1to move someone or something to another place, especially in a way that seems unfairshunt somebody off/around/aside etc

Smith was shunted off to one of the company’s smaller offices.2to move a train or railway carriage onto a different track

shunt¹ verbshunt² noun

shuntshunt2 noun [countable]

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

Porta caval shunt operations have not found favour in recent years because of the increased incidence of postoperative hepatic encephalopathy.
Predictably, this meant there was no first corner shunt in the slightly damp conditions.
Should this particular complication occur after creation of a successful shunt, it can be improved as described for patient 6.
Some linear systems have the control element connected in shunt rather than in series with the supply, see Fig. 2.
Subsequent modifications in the technique resulted in long term maintenance of shunt patency and infrequent migration of the internal stents.
Thankfully only minor shunts so far and the tow bar has taken the impacts.
The shunt happened as she turned into the drive of Ludgrove School, at Wokingham, Berks.
The peritoneovenous shunt is an established method of palliation for intractable benign and malignant ascites.

WORD SETS► Trains & Railways

1an act of moving a train or railway carriage to a different track2especially British English informal a crash, especially in a car race:

His race ended after a shunt at the first corner.

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