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Definition: Shunt |
ShuntNoun1. A passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another; "an arteriovenus shunt". 2. A conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current. 3. Implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for draining fluids within the body. Verb1. Transfer to another track, of trains. 2. Provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "shunt" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1873. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Biology & Biotechnology | The botanical name for the group of vascular flowering plants that produce seeds enclosed in an ovary. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | A conducting device connected in parallel with part of a current-carrying electric circuit to divert current from that part. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A resistor connected in parallel with the current circuit of a measuring instrument in order to reduce, by a known ratio, the current passing through it. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Applied to a machine to denote that it is excited by a shunt winding. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Environment | Mechanical vibration acting along the poster-anterior or back-to-front axis of the body. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | A surgically created diversion of fluid (e.g., blood or cerebrospinal fluid) from one area of the body to another area of the body. (references) |
Literature | Shunt A railway term. (Anglo-Saxon, scun-ran, to shun.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A connection between two wires of a blasting cap that prevents building upof opposed electric potential in them. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In medicine, a shunt is a device designed to drain excess cerebrospinal fluid from the brain and carry it to other parts of the body. A one-way valve is used, which usually sits outside the skull, but beneath the skin, somewhere behind the ear.Although a shunt generally works well, it may stop working if it disconnects, becomes blocked, or it is outgrown. If this happens the cerebrospinal fluid will begin to accumulate again and a number of physical symptoms will develop, some extremely serious, like seizures.
The shunt failure rate is also relatively high and it is not uncommon for patients to have multiple shunt revisions within their lifetime.
The diagnosis of cerebro-spinal buildup is complex and requires expertise.
See also:
- Shunt in electronics
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Shunt."
Synonyms: ShuntSynonyms: bypass (n), electrical shunt (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deviation | Intervert; deflect; divert, divert from its course; put on a new scent, shift, shunt, draw aside, crook, warp. |
Recession | Remove, shunt, distance. |
Transference | Send, delegate, consign, relegate, turn over to, deliver; ship, embark; waft; shunt; transpose; (interchange); displace; throw; drag; mail, post. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Shunt |
| English words defined with "shunt": bridged-T, bypass ♦ portacaval shunt ♦ Shunt dynamo, Shunt gun, Shunted, Shunting ♦ T-network, Turn-out. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "shunt": Anastomosis, Surgical, Arteriovenous Anastomosis ♦ CAR-RETARDER OPERATOR, CELL REPAIRER, cumulative compounded ♦ differential compounded, double-track portable switch ♦ Endolymphatic Shunt ♦ inductive shunt ♦ Portacaval Shunt, Surgical, Portasystemic Shunt, Surgical ♦ railroad-car retarder operator, retarder operator ♦ single-approach pit bottom, STREET-LIGHT REPAIRER ♦ TESTER, MOTORS AND CONTROLS, to shunt, traverser system. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Shunt" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (bypass), Danish (shunt), Dutch (shunt), French (shunt), German (shunt), Portuguese (parallel resistance, shunt), Swedish (shunt). |
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Health | This system is also known as a shunt. (references) | |
Shunt systems are not perfect devices. (references) | ||
Generally, shunt systems require monitoring and regular medical followup. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Shunt" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 82.14% of the time. "Shunt" is used about 112 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 82.14% | 92 | 34,282 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 14.29% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.57% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 112 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "shunt": a lamp in shunt ♦ electric shunt ♦ electrical shunt ♦ Endolymphatic Shunt ♦ inductive shunt ♦ Peritoneovenous Shunt ♦ portacaval shunt ♦ Portosystemic Shunt ♦ postcaval shunt ♦ prevent shunt of a track circuit ♦ shunt admittance ♦ shunt circuit ♦ shunt dynamo ♦ shunt gun ♦ shunt motor ♦ shunt rifling ♦ shunt smb. aside ♦ shunt smb. backwards and forwards ♦ shunt smb. off the way ♦ shunt smb. out of the way ♦ shunt T ♦ shunt valve ♦ shunt winding ♦ shunt wire ♦ to shunt ♦ Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "shunt": shunt-compensated, shunt-current, shunt-inserted, shunt-voltage, Shunt-wound. | |
Ending with "shunt": head-shunt, Hunt-the-shunt. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "shunt"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | spostim (shift), shuntoj, ndërrim shinash, mënjanoj (avert, avoid, deflect, depart, eliminate, elude, leave out, move aside, remove, save, stave off, store, store up, suspend, thrift, translocate, turn aside, uncurtain, ward off), fut në shinat e duhura, drejtoj (address, administer, administrate, aim, aim at, align, Aline, bend, boss, canalize, Cann, carry on, chair, channel, command, con, conduct, direct, drive, funnel, govern, guide, head, keep, lead, level, manage, navigate, operate, order, pilot, point, preside, rectify, refer, rein, relegate, rule, set, shirk, shoot, show, superintend, supervise, tend, train, unbend, vector), devijim (deflection, deviation, digression, dip, diversion, ramp). (various references) | |
Arabic | مجزئ التيار الكهربي, ناور (handle, jockey, manage, maneuver, manoeuvre), حول خطوط القطار, تحويلة السكة الحديد, إنتقل القطار من إلى, إنتقل إلى جانب, ركن (corner, niche, nook). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вкарвам в друга линия, премествам (displace, heave, move, offset, remove, shift, switch over, transfer, translate, translocate, transpose), прекарване на запасен коловоз, маневрирам (handle, jockey, maneuver, manoeuvre), маневра (evolution, gambit, maneuver, manoeuvre, move, movement, play, ploy), отивам си (be off, buzz, clear off, exit, get away, go, go away, go off, leave, off it, part, pass, piss off, pop off, pull away, push along, quit, remove, run along, sheer off, take off, walk away), отлагам (carry over, defer, delay, drive, hold over, lay over, leave over, lie over, postpone, precipitate, procrastinate, prorogue, put back, put off, put over, respite, scrub, shelve, sidetrack, stay, suspend), пращам в глуха линия, отклонявам (abduct, avert, bend, call off, deflect, detract, deviate, disincline, divagate, divert, fence off, head off, put off, siphon off, stave off, swerve, throw down, throw off, turn aside, turn off, wave away), стрелка (arrow, cursor, finger, hand, index, indicator, needle, pointer, rise, switch), катастрофа (accident, catastrophe, crash, disaster, fatality, prang, smash, smash up), шунт (bypass), шунтирам, разкарвам се, слагам в архивата, снова (shuttle), отклонение (aberration, bias, declination, deflection, deflexion, derivation, detour, deviation, digression, divergence, divergency, diversion, drift, excursion, inflection, inflexion, lapse, ramification, swerve, turnout, variation). (various references) | |
Chinese | 分流器. (various references) | |
Czech | přesunutí, přepnout (span, switch), přepínaè (commutator, switch), odstavit na vedlejší kolej. (various references) | |
Danish | shunt (by-pass, leakage, parallel resistance). (various references) | |
Dutch | shunt (bypass, by-pass, bypass operation, keeper, parallel resistance, to shunt). (various references) | |
Farsi | منحرف کردن (Alienate, Bend, Calloff, Deflect, Divert, Pervert, Swerve, Warp, Wring), کنار (Apart, Away, Bank, Besides, Brim, Brink, By, Limit, Lip, List, Margin, Next, Rand, Recess, Verge), گذاشتن (Attach, Cut, Deposit, Have, Infiltrate, Leave, Let, Lodge, Place, Stead), تغییرجهت دادن (Veer), ترن رابخطدیگری انداختن , ازمیان بردن (Abolish, Abrogate, Wipe). (various references) | |
Finnish | suntti, sivuvirta, sivuvastus (parallel resistance), sähköinen sivupiiri (electric shunt), yhdystie, yhdyshaara, x-akseli-tärinä (fore-and-aft vibration, longitudinal vibration, surge, transverse vibration, x-axis vibration), pitkittäissuuntainen tärinä (fore-and-aft vibration, longitudinal vibration, surge, transverse vibration, x-axis vibration), keskitason tärinä (fore-and-aft vibration, longitudinal vibration, surge, transverse vibration, x-axis vibration). (various references) | |
French | shunt (electric shunt). (various references) | |
German | Nebenschluss (parallel connection), Shunt (by-pass, parallel resistance), Nebenanschluss. (various references) | |
Greek | σύνδεση εν παραλλήλω (connected in parallel, electric shunt, in parallel), συγκεντρωτικός αγωγός, συλλεκτήριος αγωγός, συλλεκτήριος αεραγωγός, μηχανή παράλληλης διέγερσης, παρεκκλίνω (aberrate, deflect, depart, deviate, sidetrack, swerve), παράκαμψη (by-passing, circumvention, detour), παράλληλη αντίσταση (parallel resistance), παρακαμπτήρια δίοδος by-pass (by-pass), παραδιακλάδωση, επικοινωνία (commune, communication, communion, intercourse, liaison, rapport), αλλάσσω τροχιά, δόνηση κατά την διεύθυνση του άξονα χ (fore-and-aft vibration, longitudinal vibration, surge, transverse vibration, x-axis vibration), διακλάδωση (a fork, bifurcation, branch, fork, ramification), διαφυγή (escape, leakage). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לעתק (copy by carbon, haul, shift, switch), עתוק (alienation, copying, transfer). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tolatás (shifting). (various references) | |
Indonesian | menyebelahkan (shunt a side), mengelakkan (deflect, dodge, shirk, shunt to the side). (various references) | |
Italian | derivazione (bypass, derivation, derivative, derive, lineage, origin, shunting). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 待避 (shelter). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たいひ (comparison, compost, contrast, evacuation, loan, shelter, taking refuge). (various references) | |
Korean | 분로. (various references) | |
Manx | shuntey (shunting), shuntal (shunting). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | untshay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | desvio (break, canting, crossroad, deflection, deflexion, departure, detour, deviation, deviousness, digression, diversion, leakage, meander, misapplication, roundabout, set, sidetrack, siding, switch, turn, turnabout, turning, veering). (various references) | |
Romanian | renunţa la (abandon, abdicate, abnegate, back down, cast aside, chuck up, declare off, deny, disclaim, doff, drop, forgo, forsake, give over, lay down, part with, remise, renounce, resign, sacrifice, sink, spare, surrender, throw up, yield up), manevrã (evolution, manipulation, manoeuvre), manevra un tren, lãsa la o parte (except, omit), garare a unui tren, gara un tren, derivaţie (derivation, leak, tap), deriva un curent, amâna (adjourn, continue, dally, delay, drive, hang up, hold over, leave over, postpone, procrastinate, protract, put by, put off, refer, reprieve, stay). (various references) | |
Russian | стрелка (arrow, clock, cursor, hand, index, needle, ogive), сворачивать (swerve, turn down, veer, wrap, zagged), откладывать (adjourn, defer, deposit, hang up, hoard, hold over, lay aside, lay by, leave over, postpone, put aside, put away, put by, put off, put over, reserve, set apart, set aside, set by, store, suspend), отводить шунт параллельный, переключение (change over, changeover, commutation, shifting, throwback), перевод на запасной путь. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sporedni vod, skretnica (switch), skretanje (deflection, drift, turn, turning, veer), skrenuti (avert, deflect, divert, sidetrack, switch, turn), vezati paralelno, napraviti šant, manevrisati (jockey, maneuver, manoeuvre), šant (bypass). (various references) | |
Spanish | derivación (branch, branching, bypass, derivation, tap). (various references) | |
Swedish | växling (alternation, change, exchange, fluctuation, flux, rotation, shift, vicissitude), växla (alter, alternate, bandy, change, exchange, fluctuate, kick, shift, switch, toggle, turn), shunt (electric shunt, parallel resistance). (various references) | |
Thai | สับเปลี่ยน (rotate), การสับราง. (various references) | |
Turkish | yolunu değiştirmek, yol değiştirme, yerini değiştirmek (relocate, shift, translocate, transpose), yan yola geçmek, yan yol (accommodation road, ancillary road, branch road, bypath, byroad, crossroad, side road, sideline, sidetrack, slip road), yakasını sıyırmak (get rid of, shake off), tâli direnç, paralel devre, paralel bağlamak, hat değiştirmek, hat değiştirme, başından atmak (brush off, get rid of, throw off), şönt. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | шунтувати, шунт, відсуватися (move aside, move away), відводити (abduct, allot, appoint, apportion, assign, avert, drain, draw away, take back), переведення (transfer), перемикання (switching). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự chuyển. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "shunt": shunted, shunter, shunters, shunting, shunts. (additional references) | |
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"Shunt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chunt, eshun, Hsun, Saunt, schunt, scunt, shant, Shante, Shantu, Shantz, shaun, shenti, Shiant, shint, shont, shuang, shuft, shuln, Shuna, shund, Shung, shunna, Shuonn, shurt, shutt, slunt, sunt, sut, thunt. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "shunt" (pronounced shu"nt) |
| 3 | -u" n t | affront, blunt, brunt, confront, front, grunt, Hunt, Lunt, punt, stunt. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: hunts. | |
| Words within the letters "h-n-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: huns, hunt, huts, nuts, shun, shut, stun, thus, tuns, tush. | |
-2 letters: hun, hut, nth, nus, nut, sun, tun, uns, uts. | |
-3 letters: nu, sh, uh, un, us, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-n-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: haunts, shunts, thunks, unhats, unshut. | |
+2 letters: canthus, chaunts, enthuse, gunshot, hognuts, hunters, naughts, noughts, runtish, shotgun, shunted, shunter, shuting, staunch, sunbath, tuchuns, tundish, tushing, unhasty, unshift, unsight. | |
+3 letters: acanthus, burthens, chestnut, chunters, chutnees, chutneys, cothurns, dianthus, enthused, enthuses, foxhunts, gunshots, gunsmith, handouts, hangouts, haunters, hindguts, humanest, humanist, hunkiest, huntings, huntress, huntsman, huntsmen, hustings, hustling, hutments, lutherns, manhunts, nautches, nuthouse, nutshell, outhunts, outshine, outshone, shantung, shotguns, shouting, shunters, shunting, shutdown, shutting, snoutish, southern, southing, southron, sunbathe, sunbaths, sunlight, thousand, thunders, toughens, unchaste, unearths, unfaiths, unshifts, unsights, unsought, unstitch, unswathe, unthinks, untruths, urethans, xanthous, youthens. | |
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