Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense shunts, present participle shunting, past tense, past participle shunted
1. verb [usually passive]
If a person or thing is shunted somewhere, they are moved or sent there, usually because someone finds them inconvenient.
[disapproval]
He has spent most of his life being shunted between various foster families. [beVERB-ed preposition/adverb]
Independent thinkers are shunted into minor jobs or refused promotion. [beVERB-ed preposition/adverb]
2. verb
When railway engines shunt wagons or carriages, they push or pull them from one railway line to another.
The GM diesel engine shunted the coaches to Platform 4. [VERB noun preposition/adverb]
shunt in British English
(ʃʌnt)
verb
1.
to turn or cause to turn to one side; move or be moved aside
2. railways
to transfer (rolling stock) from track to track
3. electronics
to divert or be diverted through a shunt
4. (transitive)
to evade by putting off onto someone else
5. (transitive) motor racing slang
to crash (a car)
noun
6.
the act or an instance of shunting
7.
a railway point
8. electronics
a low-resistance conductor connected in parallel across a device, circuit, or part of a circuit to provide an alternative path for a known fraction of the current
9. medicine
a channel that bypasses the normal circulation of the blood: a congenital abnormality or surgically induced
10. British informal
a collision which occurs when a vehicle runs into the back of the vehicle in front
Word origin
C13: perhaps from shunen to shun
shunt in American English
(ʃʌnt)
verb transitive, verb intransitive
1.
to move or turn to one side; turn aside or out of the way
2.
to shift or switch, as a train, car, etc. from one track to another
3. Electricity
to divert or be diverted by a shunt
said of a current
4.
to provide or connect with a shunt
noun
5.
the act of shunting
6.
switch (sense 6) switch (sense 6a)
7. Electricity
a conductor connecting two points in a circuit in parallel so that an additional pathway is created for the current
8. Medicine
an abnormal natural channel or a surgically created one allowing flow from one organ or pathway to another
Derived forms
shunter (ˈshunter)
noun
Word origin
ME schunten < ? or akin to shun
shunt in Electrical Engineering
(ʃʌnt)
Word forms: (regular plural) shunts
noun
(Electrical engineering: Electrical power, Motor or generator)
A shunt is any component connected in parallel. A current shunt is a device for altering the amount of electric current flowing through a piece of apparatus, such as a galvanometer.
A shunt generator is a method in which field winding and armature winding are connected inparallel, and in which the armature supplies both the load current and the field current.
A current shunt is a device for altering the amount of electric current flowing through a piece ofapparatus, such as a galvanometer.
A shunt is any component connected in parallel. A current shunt is a device for alteringthe amount of electric current flowing through a piece of apparatus, such as a galvanometer.
shunt motor, shunt-wound
Examples of 'shunt' in a sentence
shunt
University terms may have to be shunted back to allow time for the application process.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Many of them have shunted aside film work.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
He has been shunted from right back to central midfield and then to centre half in three consecutive games.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It's obviously no fun being in a car shunt.
The Sun (2014)
It clearly wasn't a minor shunt.
The Sun (2013)
The international partners were unhappy, but their concerns were shunted aside.
Andro Linklater MEASURING AMERICA (2002)
One by one, most of the bears either changed their views or found themselves shunted aside.
John Cassidy DOT.CON (2001)
They were afterwards shunted back into their tunnel, away from our bombers.
Alan Whicker Whicker's War
But it's a disgrace the case was shunted aside in the first place.
The Sun (2011)
The other two were shunted back to Calais.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
But last week's air chaos must have shunted that back another year.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Industrial production shunted homemade products aside, and with them went the popular knowledge of what was safe.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
He has clocked up nearly a million miles but had only one accident - when another car shunted into him.
The Sun (2010)
Then as soon as he shunted the cars on to a public road, the police sprang into action and arrested him.
The Sun (2010)
Large volumes of blood are shunted from one end of the body to the other, increasing circulation and producing an almost cardiovascular effect.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
And that's what we're being shunted back towards now.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
A group of cars had shunted up against the doors of a long shed and the men were cramming their boots with meat for the towns.
Marsden, Philip The Crossing-Place (1993)
Two others on a SECOND quad bike clipped by the train ran off as their machine was shunted off the tracks and wrecked.
The Sun (2009)
The car inexplicably shunted forward as soon as the key was put in the ignition (with the handbrake on and the manual gearbox in neutral).
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
In other languages
shunt
British English: shunt VERB
If a person or thing is shunted somewhere, they are moved or sent there, usually because someone finds them inconvenient.
He has spent most of his life being shunted between various foster families.