shuntverb
uk/ʃʌnt/us/ʃʌnt/shunt verb (TRAINS)
[ T ] to move a train or carriage onto a different track in or near a station using a special railway engine designed for this purpose
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Railways: trains & parts of trains
- air brake
- baggage car
- bogie
- boiler
- bullet train
- caboose
- choo-choo
- coach
- commuter train
- couchette
- diesel
- emergency cord
- freight car
- intercity
- maglev train
- rolling stock
- shuttle
- sleeping car
- truck
- wagon-lit
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shunt verb (MOVE)
[ T usually + adv/prep ] to move someone or something from one place to another, usually because that person or thing is not wanted, and without considering any unpleasant effects:
I spent most of my childhood being shunted (about) between my parents who had divorced when I was five.
He shunts his kids off to a camp every summer.
Viewers are sick of their favourite sitcoms being shunted to later times to make way for live sports coverage.
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Transferring and transporting objects
- bearer
- borne
- bring
- budge
- bus
- call for sb
- drop
- ferry
- freight
- put sb down somewhere
- road haulage
- route
- shuffle
- spirit
- tear 1
- tear sb away
- tote
- transfer
- transport
- transportation
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shunt
noun [ C usually singular ] ukus
shuntnoun [ C ]
uk/ʃʌnt/us/ʃʌnt/specializedshunt noun [ C ] (PASSAGE)
a hole or passage that allows liquid to move from one part of the body to another, either found naturally in the body or put into the body in an operation
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Substances & structures in the body
- abductor
- accessorius
- adductor
- agonist
- amyloid
- atheroma
- caecum
- grey matter
- gyrus
- hallucis
- hilum
- hilus
- lymph vessel
- peptic
- periosteum
- peritoneal
- peritoneum
- phosphatase
- vitreous humour
- xiphoid
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