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Shunt vs Shuntable - What's the difference?

shunt | shuntable |

As a verb shunt

is (obsolete|uk|dialect) to turn away or aside.

As a noun shunt

is a switch on a railway.

As an adjective shuntable is

capable of being shunted.

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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    shuntable

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Capable of being shunted.