Shent vs Shunt - What's the difference?
shent | shunt |
(obsolete, UK, dialect) To turn away or aside.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove.
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.
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.
As verbs the difference between shent and shunt
is that shent is (shend) while shunt is (obsolete|uk|dialect) to turn away or aside.As a noun shunt is
a switch on a railway.shunt
English
Verb
(en verb)- (Ash)
- to shunt a galvanometer
