Shunt vs Shun - What's the difference?
shunt | shun |
(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.
To avoid, especially persistently.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
, title= To escape (a threatening evil, an unwelcome task etc).
To screen, hide.
To shove, push.
As verbs the difference between shunt and shun
is that shunt is to turn away or aside while shun is to avoid, especially persistently.As a noun shunt
is a switch on a railway.shunt
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(en verb)- (Ash)
- to shunt a galvanometer
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(wikipedia shunt) (en noun)Anagrams
*shun
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(shunn)Keeping the mighty honest, passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}
