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BNC: 14287 COCA: 18929

shunt

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Related topics: Trains & railways
shunt1 /ʃʌnt/ verb [transitiveT]  
1  SENDto move someone or something to another place, especially in a way that seems unfair 将…转移至另一地方〔尤指有欠公正〕
shunt somebody off/around/aside etc
 Smith was shunted off to one of the company’s smaller offices.
史密斯被调到公司下属的一个较小的办事处。
2. TTTto move a train or railway carriage onto a different track 使〔火车〕转轨
Examples from the Corpus
shunt• I did what I could to reassure him, but once the operation began, I was shunted aside and forgotten.• The army had whole gay battalions who they just shunted aside and let be.• In such arteriovenous malformations, much of the oxygenated arterial blood is shunted directly into the veins without ever traversing the capillaries.• For eight or nine months Mike was shunted from foster home to foster home.• I'm sick of being shunted from one department to another.• He had been shunted into a side-line and was now out of the mainstream traffic for good.• A train of thought shunted its way through Hugh's mind.• Tactics that shunted money into the hands of prime ministers or sycophantic merchants did not generally help the citizens of a nation.• She then returned to back into the siding and collected her own carriages, shunting them back into Holyhead Station!• The company's solution to dealing with incompetent staff seems to be to shunt them into clerical jobs.• Blood is shunted to the liver, where it can be filtered.
Related topics: Trains & railways
shunt2 noun [countableC]  
1. TTTan act of moving a train or railway carriage to a different track 调轨，转轨
2  especially British EnglishBrE informal a crash, especially in a car race 〔尤指赛车中的〕撞车事故，车祸
n His race ended after a shunt at the first corner.
Examples from the Corpus
shunt• Porta caval shunt operations have not found favour in recent years because of the increased incidence of postoperative hepatic encephalopathy.• Predictably, this meant there was no first corner shunt in the slightly damp conditions.• Some linear systems have the control element connected in shunt rather than in series with the supply, see Fig. 2.• Thankfully only minor shunts so far and the tow bar has taken the impacts.• Subsequent modifications in the technique resulted in long term maintenance of shunt patency and infrequent migration of the internal stents.• The peritoneovenous shunt is an established method of palliation for intractable benign and malignant ascites.• Should this particular complication occur after creation of a successful shunt, it can be improved as described for patient 6.• The shunt happened as she turned into the drive of Ludgrove School, at Wokingham, Berks.
Origin shunt1
(1200-1300) Perhaps from shun
shunt1 verbshunt2 noun
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BNC: 14287 COCA: 18929
BNC: 14287 COCA: 18929
BNC: 14287 COCA: 18929
shunt
General words meaning to move something: budge, propel, guide...
Rail passengers and rail travel: class, coach, first class...
Medical equipment: catheter, defibrillator, drain...
Vehicle accidents and breakdowns: accident, aquaplane, bang up...

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