shunt

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “For we are all shunting—shunting—shunting / We're all shunting in this queer world of ours. / Nations are shunted like to our railway carriages: / As Napoleon shunted la belle France into war; / Princes are shunted into royal marriages; / Kings and Queens are shunted just like a railway car.”

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

   “Even as the new king appeared on the balcony of Buckingham Palace in a downpour to view a weather-attenuated flyby, much of the press attention focused on Harry’s absence. (Charles’s heir, Prince William, was shunted off to the side with his family.)”

3. fiil To provide with a shunt.

   “to shunt a galvanometer”

4. fiil To move data in memory to a physical disk.

   “A momentary power spike had caused a blip, forcing the backup system to shunt Carella's current work into a safety file. It was standard operating procedure, a decision made by the online computer itself.”

5. fiil To divert electric current by providing an alternative path.
6. fiil To move a train from one track to another, or to move carriages, etc. from one train to another.

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

7. fiil To have a minor collision, especially in a motor car.

   “The main argument for the use of culpability as a categorizer is that some accidents can be said to be independent of the behaviour of at least one of the drivers, for example, being shunted when having stopped for a red light (in a slow and controlled manner, at least).”

8. fiil To divert the flow of a body fluid.

   “There are times when one has no alternative other than to attempt to shunt the cerebrospinal fluid into the pleural cavity, a potential space, which may occasionally be capable of absorbing the fluid.”

9. fiil To turn aside or away; to divert.
10. fiil To carry on arbitrage between the London stock exchange and provincial stock exchanges.
11. isim An act of moving (suddenly), as due to a push or shove.

    “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.”

12. isim A connection used as an alternative path between parts of an electrical circuit.

    “The sensibility of a galvanometer may be varied in a very simple manner by the use of what is termed a shunt. A shunt is a resistance coil, or coil of fine wire used to divert some definite portion of a current, taking it past a galvanometer instead of through its coils.”

13. isim 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.
14. isim An abnormal passage between body channels.
15. isim A passage between body channels constructed surgically as a bypass; a tube inserted into the body to create such a passage.

    “We present an extremely rare case of delayed and combined ventriculoperitoneal shunt blockage, viscus perforation and migration into the urethra manifested by a repeated urinary tract infection. This was discovered six months after the shunt was inserted.”

16. isim A switch on a railway used to move a train from one track to another.
17. isim A minor collision between vehicles.