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   shunt

   /ʃʌnt/

   verb

   • 1. push or pull (a train or part of a train) from the main line to a siding or from one line of rails to another: "their train had been shunted into a siding"
   • ▪ push or shove (someone or something): "chairs were being shunted to and fro"
   • ▪ direct or divert to a less important place or position: "amateurs were gradually being shunted to filing jobs"
   • 2. provide (an electrical current) with a conductor joining two points of a circuit, through which more or less of the current may be diverted: "these components are designed to shunt electrical surges away from microcircuits"

   noun

   • 1. an act of pushing or shoving something: "the engine turnround was helped by a gravity shunt"
   • ▪ a motor accident, especially a collision of vehicles travelling one close behind the other: informal British "a lorry shed its load, causing an eight-vehicle shunt"
   • 2. an electrical conductor joining two points of a circuit, through which more or less of a current may be diverted.
   • ▪ an alternative path for the passage of the blood or other body fluid: "shunt surgery"

   Word Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘move suddenly aside’): perhaps from shun.

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   What does shunt mean?

   • Get a quick, free translation! SHUNT definition: 1. to move a train or carriage onto a different track in or near a station using a special railway…. Learn more.

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   What is a shunt & how does it work?

   • Any bypassing or sidetracking of flow, especially of fluid such as blood or cerebrospinal fluid. A shunt may be the result of disease or may be surgically induced, or inserted as a prosthesis, to effect treatment. A small tube placed in a ventricle of the brain to direct cerebrospinal fluid away from the blockage into another part of the body.

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   What is a cardiovascular shunt?

   • cardiovascular shunt an abnormality of the blood flow between the sides of the heart or between the systemic and pulmonary circulation; see left-to-right shunt and right-to-left shunt. jejunoileal shunt an intestinal bypass performed to control obesity.

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   What is a brain shunt?

   • A shunt may be the result of disease or may be surgically induced, or inserted as a prosthesis, to effect treatment. A small tube placed in a ventricle of the brain to direct cerebrospinal fluid away from the blockage into another part of the body. Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine.

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     to move someone or something from one place to another,...

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   A shunt is a passage or anastomosis between two natural channels, especially between blood vessels, that diverts or bypasses the normal flow of a fluid. Learn about different types of shunts, such as arteriovenous, cardiovascular, peritoneovenous, and ventriculoperitoneal, and their purposes and risks.

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   Shunt can be a verb meaning to move a train, a person or a liquid, or a noun meaning a hole or a crash. Learn how to use shunt in different contexts and languages with Cambridge Dictionary.

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   Shunt can be a verb meaning to divert or move something aside, or a noun meaning a device or channel that diverts something. Learn the origin, history and meanings of shunt in different contexts, such as electricity, railroads and surgery.

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    Definitions of 'shunt' 1. If a person or thing is shunted somewhere, they are moved or sent there, usually because someone finds them inconvenient. [disapproval] [...] 2. When railway engines shunt wagons or carriages, they push or pull them from one railway line to another. [...] More. English for Special Purposes. in Electrical Engineering.