Synonyms of the word shunt


SHUNTBYPASS - CONDUCTOR - DEVIATE - IMPLANT - PASSAGE - PASSAGEWAY - SHIFT - TRANSFER

shunt

  • v. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) To turn away or aside.
  • v. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove.
  • v. To move a train from one track to another, or to move carriages, etc. from one train to another.
  • v. To divert electric current by providing an alternative path.
  • v. To divert the flow of a body fluid using surgery.
  • v. To move data in memory to a physical disk.
  • v. (informal, Britain) To have a minor collision, especially in a motor car.
  • v. To provide with a shunt.
  • v. To divert to a less important place, position or state.
  • n. A switch on a railway.
  • n. A connection used as an alternative path between parts of an electric circuit.
  • n. A passage between body channels constructed surgically as a bypass.
  • n. (informal, Britain) A minor collision.
  • n. (firearms) The shifting of the studs on a projectile from the deep to the shallow sides of the grooves…

bypass

  • n. a road that passes around something, such as a residential area.
  • n. a circumvention.
  • n. a section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture.
  • n. an electrical shunt.
  • n. (medicine) an alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical…
  • v. to avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass.
  • v. to ignore the usual channels or procedures.

conductor

  • n. One who conducts or leads; a guide; a director.
  • n. (music) A person who conducts an orchestra, choir or other music ensemble; a professional whose occupation…
  • n. A person who takes tickets on public transportation and also helps passengers.
  • n. Something that can transmit electricity, heat, light or sound.
  • n. (mathematics) An ideal of a ring that measures how far it is from being integrally closed.
  • n. A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, such as lithontriptic forceps; a director.
  • n. (architecture) A leader.

deviate

  • n. (sociology) A person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert.
  • n. (statistics) A value equal to the difference between a measured variable factor and a fixed or algorithmic…
  • v. (intransitive) To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.
  • v. (intransitive, figuratively) To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray.

implant

  • v. (transitive) To fix firmly or set securely or deeply.
  • v. (transitive) To insert (something) surgically into the body.
  • v. (intransitive) Of an embryo, to become attached to and embedded in the womb.
  • n. Anything surgically implanted in the body, such as a tissue graft or prosthesis, particularly breast implants.
  • n. (travel) A representative of a travel company, working within the office of a large client and exclusively…

passage

  • n. A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
  • n. Part of a path or journey.
  • n. The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.
  • n. (art) The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
  • n. A passageway or corridor.
  • n. (caving) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
  • n. (euphemistic) The vagina.
  • n. The act of passing.
  • v. (medicine) To pass a pathogen through a host or medium.
  • v. (rare) To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross.
  • n. (dressage) A movement in classical dressage, in which the horse performs a very collected, energetic,…
  • v. (intransitive, dressage) To execute a passage movement.

passageway

  • n. A covered walkway, between rooms or buildings.
  • n. Any way for passing in, out or through something.

shift

  • n. (historical) A type of women's undergarment, a slip.
  • n. A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
  • n. An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
  • n. (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
  • n. Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).
  • n. (computing) A bit shift.
  • n. (baseball) The infield shift.
  • n. (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of sexual petting.
  • n. (archaic) A contrivance, device to try when other methods fail.
  • n. (archaic) A trick, an artifice.
  • n. In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed…
  • n. (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
  • v. (transitive) To change, swap.
  • v. (transitive) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
  • v. (intransitive) To change position.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To change (one's clothes); also to change (someone's) underclothes.
  • v. (intransitive) To change gears (in a car).
  • v. (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.
  • v. (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare…
  • v. (transitive, computing) To remove the first value from an array.
  • v. (transitive) To dispose of.
  • v. (intransitive) To hurry.
  • v. (Ireland, vulgar, slang) To engage in sexual petting.
  • v. (obsolete) To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
  • v. To practice indirect or evasive methods.

transfer

  • v. (transitive) To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.
  • v. (transitive) To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.
  • v. (intransitive) To be or become transferred.
  • v. (transitive, law) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.
  • n. (uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
  • n. (countable) An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
  • n. (countable) A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.
  • n. A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
  • n. (medicine) A pathological process by which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side…
  • n. (genetics) The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another.

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