shunt

IPA: ʃˈʌnt

An act of moving (suddenly), as due to a push or shove.
(electricity) A connection used as an alternative path between parts of an electrical circuit.
(firearms) The shifting of the studs on a projectile from the deep to the shallow sides of the grooves in its discharge from a shunt gun.
(medicine, veterinary medicine) An abnormal passage between body channels.
(surgery) A passage between body channels constructed surgically as a bypass; a tube inserted into the body to create such a passage.
(rail transport) A switch on a railway used to move a train from one track to another.
(chiefly road transport, informal, Britain) A minor collision between vehicles.

(transitive) To cause to move (suddenly), as by pushing or shoving; to give a (sudden) start to.
(transitive) To divert to a less important place, position, or state.
(transitive) To provide with a shunt.
(transitive, computing) To move data in memory to a physical disk.
(transitive, electricity) To divert electric current by providing an alternative path.
(transitive, rail transport) To move a train from one track to another, or to move carriages, etc. from one train to another.
(transitive, chiefly road transport, informal, Britain) To have a minor collision, especially in a motor car.
(transitive, surgery) To divert the flow of a body fluid.
(transitive, obsolete, Britain, dialectal) To turn aside or away; to divert.
(finance, UK, historical) To carry on arbitrage between the London stock exchange and provincial stock exchanges.

Examples of "shunt" in Sentences

Well, if you’re Roald Dahl, you team up with a couple of other guys to invent a brain shunt to ease the pain.
It involves a simple operation using what's called a shunt, a device which diverts fluid from the brain to the abdomen.
But at the level a Master worked, improperly handled energy could be deadly; the shunt was a necessity - as Firesong's own scars testified.
A tremendous shunt from the French pack at the first scrum on New Zealand ball saw the visiting front row buckle and pop under pressure, and Dupuy made no mistake from 35 metres after three minutes.
The study, which involved 158 mothers carrying babies with spina bifida, found that sealing up the defective spinal cords before they were born also significantly reduced the chances they would need a tube known as a shunt surgically implanted to drain fluid from their brains.
The study, which involved 158 mothers carrying babies with spina bifida, found that sealing up their defective spinal cords before they were born also significantly reduced the chances they would need to a tube known as a shunt surgically implanted to drain fluid from their brains.