English Dictionary

shunt

IPA（発音記号）

/ʃʌnt/

動詞

他動詞 イギリス英語 くだけた表現 方言 廃用 イギリス英語 歴史的

(transitive) To cause to move (suddenly), as by pushing or shoving; to give a (sudden) start to. / (transitive) To divert to a less important place, position, or state.

日本語の意味

（急に）動かす、押しや突きによって急に動かすまたは始動させる。 / 重要度が低い位置や状態へ移す、転換する。

She shunted the heavy cart aside to clear the doorway.

彼女は出入口を空けるために重い荷車を押しのけた。

意味（1）

(transitive) To cause to move (suddenly), as by pushing or shoving; to give a (sudden) start to.

For we are all shunting—shunting—shunting / We're all shunting in this queer world of ours. / Nations are shunted like to our railway carriages: / As Napoleon shunted la belle France into war; / Princes are shunted into royal marriages; / Kings and Queens are shunted just like a railway car.

意味（2）

(transitive) To divert to a less important place, position, or state.

Here in England it is, thank God! the custom for us to shunt ourselves off the grand trunk railroad of business, in tearing up and down which our lives are mainly passed, into some quiet siding once every year. […] [W]hen July is running into August, and everything is breaking up, you feel that your business for the season—be it in commerce, law, or literature—is achieved, and that the time for your being temporarily shunted has arrived.

意味（3）

(transitive) To provide with a shunt.

to shunt a galvanometer

意味（4）

(transitive, computing) To move data in memory to a physical disk.

A momentary power spike had caused a blip, forcing the backup system to shunt Carella's current work into a safety file. It was standard operating procedure, a decision made by the online computer itself.

意味（5）

(transitive, electricity) To divert electric current by providing an alternative path.

The method of running an electric motor herein set out, which consists in starting the motor with the two halves of its armature in series with a resistance in a two-pole field, then gradually cutting out the resistance, then including the resistance and shunting one-half the motor, then opening the circuit of the shunted half and throwing the two halves of the motor in multiple in a four-pole field, and finally, cutting out the resistance.

意味（6）

(transitive, rail transport) To move a train from one track to another, or to move carriages, etc. from one train to another.

Porter, run over while shunting a luggage train, in consequence of his getting entangled in shunting-rope.

意味（7）

(transitive, chiefly road transport, informal, Britain) To have a minor collision, especially in a motor car.

The main argument for the use of culpability as a categorizer is that some accidents can be said to be independent of the behaviour of at least one of the drivers, for example, being shunted when having stopped for a red light (in a slow and controlled manner, at least).

意味（8）

(transitive, surgery) To divert the flow of a body fluid.

There are times when one has no alternative other than to attempt to shunt the cerebrospinal fluid into the pleural cavity, a potential space, which may occasionally be capable of absorbing the fluid.

意味（9）

(transitive, obsolete, Britain, dialectal) To turn aside or away; to divert.

意味（10）

(finance, UK, historical) To carry on arbitrage between the London stock exchange and provincial stock exchanges.

shunts （ present singular third-person ）

shunting （ participle present ）

shunted （ participle past ）

shunted （ past ）