A Quick and Simple Dictionary

shunt

1. Verb.  To turn away or aside.
2. Verb.  To move a train from one track to another, or to move carriages etc from one train to another.
3. Verb.  To divert electric current by providing an alternative path.
4. Verb.  To divert the flow of a body fluid using surgery.
5. Verb.  To move data in memory to a physical disk.
6. Verb.  (informal) (British) To have a minor collision, especially in a motor car.
7. Noun.  A switch on a railway.
8. Noun.  A connection used as an alternative path between parts of an electric circuit.
9. Noun.  A passage between body channels constructed surgically as a bypass.
10. Noun.  (informal) (British) A minor collision.