shunt

CEFRC2

/ʃʌnt/

verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To move something aside or send it along another route.

  2. 02

    verb

    Extra detail

    To divert to a less important place, position, or state.

Examples

  • Can we shunt the water over to the canal?

  • He had a shunt in his heart.

At a glance

Sits at C2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
1

Also pronounced

  • /ʃant/

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. To provide with a shunt.

  2. To cause to move (suddenly), as by pushing or shoving; to give a (sudden) start to.

  3. To move data in memory to a physical disk.

More examples

In context

  • to shunt a galvanometer

  • Porter, run over while shunting a luggage train, in consequence of his getting entangled in shunting-rope.

  • Blindside loosie Jerome Kaino got [Conor] Murray after he'd kicked in the 10th minute, then the halfback hurt a wrist after Brodie Retallick gave him a shunt.

Synonyms

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Origin

verb

From Middle English schonten, schunten (“to jerk, swerve; to dodge, escape”), either: * possibly a back-formation from Middle English schonen (“to avoid, refuse, hate, fear”), from Old English sċunian, sċyniġan; see shun. Or * an alteration of Middle English *schunden, *schynden, from Old English sċyndan, sċendan (“to hasten, hurry”) (as in āsċyndan (“to remove, take away”), from Proto-West Germanic *skundijan, from Proto-Germanic *skundijaną (“to impel, hasten”). * from unrecorded Old English *sċunettan, a derivative of sċunian (“to shun, avoid”). As regards the noun sense, compare Middle English shunt (“swerve; sudden jerk”), derived from the verb.