Online dictionaryOnline dictionary
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Shunt   Listen
verb
Shunt  v. t.  (past & past part. shunted; pres. part. shunting)  
1.
To shun; to move from. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.)
2.
To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.)
3.
To turn off to one side; especially, to turn off, as a grain or a car upon a side track; to switch off; to shift. "For shunting your late partner on to me."
4.
(Elec.) To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |
Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar




"Shunt" Quotes from Famous Books



... to the Front they couldn't keep still. They asked us eagerly if we'd had many of "our regiment" wounded, and how many casualties were there, and how was the fighting going, and how long would the journey take. (The nearer you get to the Front the longer it takes, as trains are always having to shunt and go round loops to make room for supply trains.) They didn't seem to have the dimmest idea what they're in for, bless them. They are on this train in the ...
— Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 • Anonymous
... food and the wounded at the rear with medicaments, were kept back to suit the schemes of these greedy cormorants. Gratuities, it is openly affirmed, had to be paid by Red Cross and other officers to those subordinate railway servants who had it in their power to send on a train or shunt it off for days on a side-track. Bribery is working havoc in the Tsardom. In January 1916 the Moscow municipality discussed the advisability of voting a certain sum of money and putting it at the disposal of the chief officer of the city, to be discreetly ...
— England and Germany • Emile Joseph Dillon
... Military Railway for the time being, never rose to the dignity of a cinema. Like the inhabitants of a certain country village in the North of England, if you wanted distraction at Ludd you went to the station and watched the trains shunt. ...
— With Our Army in Palestine • Antony Bluett


Words linked to "Shunt" :   electrical shunt, electric circuit, circuit, shunter, transfer, implant, passageway, shift, shunt circuit


Copyright © 2024 Dictionary One.com