Definitions for shunt

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shunt shunt

Spelling: [shuhnt]

IPA: /ʃʌnt/

Shunt is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in shunt (hnstu).

Definitions for shunt

noun

1. the act of shunting; shift.
2. Also called bypass. Electricity. a conducting element bridged across a circuit or a portion of a circuit, establishing a current path auxiliary to the main circuit, as a resistor placed across the terminals of an ammeter for increasing the range of the device.
3. a railroad switch.
4. Surgery. a channel through which blood or other bodily fluid is diverted from its normal path by surgical reconstruction or by a synthetic tube.
5. Anatomy. an anastomosis.

adjective

1. Electricity. being, having, or operating by means of a shunt:

verb (used with object)

1. to shove or turn (someone or something) aside or out of the way.
2. to sidetrack; get rid of.
3. Electricity. to divert (a part of a current) by connecting a circuit element in parallel with another. to place or furnish with a shunt.
4. Railroads. to shift (rolling stock) from one track to another; switch.
5. Surgery. to divert blood or other fluid by means of a shunt. the tube itself.
6. to move or turn aside or out of the way.
7. (of a locomotive with rolling stock) to move from track to track or from point to point, as in a railroad yard; switch.

Origin of shunt

1175-1225; (v.) Middle English schunten, shonten to shy (said of horses); (noun) Middle English, derivative of the v.; akin to shun

Examples for shunt

Clear the fishing fleet and shunt the Florence to the rocks with the wind and current.

But it was not her habit to spare herself, or to shunt her duties.

Well, we can shunt Mr. Hiltze off 273 a little, if you wish.

Look at that meter—and I've had to throw in number ten shunt!

Television stations can turn down their ads for any reason or shunt them into any time spot.

All right,” he answered, endeavoring to look unconcerned, “shunt us off.

Instead of attacking neighbors, why not shunt the wrath onto one poor soul who stands in for all would-be enemies?

Its function is to shunt the lift out of the gas, and this it will do without watching.

It would be cowardly to shunt this wretched task off on somebody else.

You know, like Nixon tried to shunt responsibility for the break-in on to Liddy, Sturgis, et al.