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

verb | noun

shuntshunt1 /ʃʌnt/ verb [transitive]

ETYMOLOGYshunt¹

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

1[usually + adv./prep.] to move someone or something to another place, especially in a way that seems unfair: shunt somebody aside/off/around etc. Employees were shunted from one department to another.2medicine to make something such as blood flow between two parts of the body, especially by making a special passage in a medical operation3technical to make electricity flow through a different path4technical to move a train or railroad car onto a different track

verb | noun

shuntshunt2 noun [countable] 1medicine a small passage that a doctor puts between two parts of someone’s body to let something such as blood flow between them SYN bypass2technical a connection that allows electricity to flow through a different path3technical an action of moving a train or railroad car to a different track