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Feeze vs Shunt - What's the difference?

feeze | shunt |

As nouns the difference between feeze and shunt

is that feeze is (obsolete) fretful excitement while shunt is a switch on a railway.

As verbs the difference between feeze and shunt

is that feeze is to drive off; frighten away; put to flight while shunt is (obsolete|uk|dialect) to turn away or aside.

feeze

English

Noun

  • (obsolete) fretful excitement
  • a race; a run; a running start, as for a leap
  • vexation; worry; fret
  • Verb

  • to drive off; frighten away; put to flight
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  • to drive; compel; urge
  • to beat; whip; chastise
  • (Beaumont and Fletcher)
  • to vex; worry; harass; plague; tease; disturb
  • to do for; settle or finish
  • to fret; be in a fume; worry
  • to sneeze
  • to untwist; ravel out
  • to dawdle; loiter
  • (Scotland) to screw; twist; tighten by screwing.
  • (Jamieson)

    References

    * Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia * (Webster 1913)

    shunt

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) To turn away or aside.
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove.
  • (Ash)
  • To move a train from one track to another, or to move carriages etc from one train to another.
  • To divert electric current by providing an alternative path.
  • To divert the flow of a body fluid using surgery.
  • To move data in memory to a physical disk.
  • (informal, British) To have a minor collision, especially in a motor car.
  • To provide with a shunt.
  • to shunt a galvanometer

    Noun

    (wikipedia shunt) (en noun)
  • A switch on a railway
  • A connection used as an alternative path between parts of an electric circuit
  • A passage between body channels constructed surgically as a bypass
  • (informal, British) A minor collision
  • (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.
  • Anagrams

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