英语词汇“shunt”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

to move (e.g. a train) from one track to another

Brit to move (railway vehicles) to different positions on the same track within terminal areas

to provide (an electrical circuit) with or divert it by means of an electrical shunt

to divert (blood) by means of a surgical shunt

(often + off/onto) to avoid (e.g. a task or, responsibility) by transferring it to somebody else

to move (something or somebody) to a less important position

verb intrans

to move into a side track

to travel back and forth

The investigators shunted between the two towns

shunter noun

[Middle English shunten to flinch, perhaps from shun]

an act of shunting

a conductor joining two points in an electrical circuit so as to form a parallel path through which a portion of the current may pass

a surgical passage created between two blood vessels to divert blood from one part to another

chiefly Brit = siding (1)

informal a minor collision of motor accident vehicles, esp one in which one vehicle runs into the back of another