[ʃʌnt], (Verb)

Definitions:
- 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
(e.g: their train had been shunted into a siding)

- provide (an electrical current) with a conductor joining two points of a circuit, through which more or less of the current may be diverted
(e.g: these components are designed to shunt electrical surges away from microcircuits)


Phrases:

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

[ʃʌnt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an act of pushing or shoving something
(e.g: the engine turnround was helped by a gravity shunt)

- an electrical conductor joining two points of a circuit, through which more or less of a current may be diverted


Phrases:

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