| 单词 | shunt |
| 释义 | shunt (once / 6052 pages) nv A shunt is a small tube that goes inside the body to drain fluid. It also means to divert in a general way, like if you shunt the thought of tubes in your body, you think about rainbows and kittens instead. Although shunt usually refers to a tube that drains blood or other fluid out of a part of the body, shunt also means to bypass. If a train is shunted, it’s diverted from the main track onto a side track. The word may have come from shun, as in “turn away,” which is what a shunt essentially does. It turns something away from where it was headed. WORD FAMILYshunt: shunted, shunter, shunting, shunts+/shunter: shunters USAGE EXAMPLESCourtrooms are so small that parents are shunted to the hall. Seattle Times(Dec 21, 2016) Shunted and scorned, the two little outcasts sweetly strike up a friendship at the campfire. Seattle Times(Dec 19, 2016) When they shunted Racing backwards in a scrum they won another penalty soon after. BBC(Dec 16, 2016) 1n a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current Syn|Hyper bypass, electrical shunt conductor a device designed to transmit electricity, heat, etc. 2n a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another an arteriovenus shunt Hypo|Hyper bypass a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part) portacaval shuntshunt that is created surgically between the portal vein and the inferior vena cava so that blood from the abdominal organs can bypass the liver passage, passageway a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass 3n implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for draining fluids within the body Hyper implant a prosthesis placed permanently in tissue 4v transfer to another track, of trains Hyper shift, transfer move around 5v provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt Hyper deviate cause to turn away from a previous or expected course |
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