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5-letter words (2 found)

HUNTS,SHUNT,

4-letter words (10 found)

HUNS,HUNT,HUTS,NUTS,SHUN,SHUT,STUN,THUS,TUNS,TUSH,

3-letter words (9 found)

HUN,HUT,NTH,NUS,NUT,SUN,TUN,UNS,UTS,

2-letter words (7 found)

NU,SH,ST,UH,UN,US,UT,

You can make 28 words from shunt according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of shunt

shunt hsunt suhnt ushnt husnt uhsnt shnut hsnut snhut nshut hnsut nhsut sunht usnht snuht nsuht unsht nusht hunst uhnst hnust nhust unhst nuhst shutn hsutn suhtn ushtn hustn uhstn shtun hstun sthun tshun htsun thsun suthn usthn stuhn tsuhn utshn tushn hutsn uhtsn htusn thusn uthsn tuhsn shntu hsntu snhtu nshtu hnstu nhstu shtnu hstnu sthnu tshnu htsnu thsnu snthu nsthu stnhu tsnhu ntshu tnshu hntsu nhtsu htnsu thnsu nthsu tnhsu sunth usnth snuth nsuth unsth nusth sutnh ustnh stunh tsunh utsnh tusnh sntuh nstuh stnuh tsnuh ntsuh tnsuh untsh nutsh utnsh tunsh ntush tnush hunts uhnts hnuts nhuts unhts nuhts hutns uhtns htuns thuns uthns tuhns hntus nhtus htnus thnus nthus tnhus unths nuths utnhs tunhs ntuhs tnuhs

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Definitions and meaning of shunt

shunt

Etymology

From Middle English shunten, schunten, schonten, schounten, shont, shonte, shount, shounten, shunte (“to move rapidly or suddenly, jerk; to swerve, turn away; to avoid, dodge, escape, evade”), either:

  • possibly a back-formation from Middle English shǒnen (“to decline to do, refuse; to abandon, forsake; to disdain, dislike, hate; to avoid, escape; to be afraid, fear; to be wary of”), from Old English sċunian, sċyniġan; see shun. Or
  • an alteration of Middle English shunden, *schunden, *schinden, from Old English scyndan, scendan (“to hasten, hurry”) (as in āscyndan (“to remove, take away”), from Proto-Germanic *skundijaną (“to compel, drive, push; to accelerate, rush, speed up”), from Proto-Indo-European *sku(n)t-, *ku(n)t- (“to rattle; to shake”).
  • from unrecorded Old English *sċunettan, a derivative of sċunian (“to shun, avoid”).

The English word is cognate with Danish skynde (“to hasten, hurry, speed”), Icelandic skynda, skunda (“to hasten”), Middle High German schünden (“to compel; to urge; to irritate”), Norwegian skynde (“to hurry, rush”), Swedish skynda (“to hasten, hurry; to scuttle, scurry”). Outside Germanic, compare Sanskrit स्कन्दति (skándati, “to dart, leap, spring, spurt or burst forth, ejaculate, assail, drop, split”), Albanian shkund (“to shake; to swig”).

As regards the noun sense, compare Middle English shunt (“swerve; sudden jerk”), derived from the verb.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ʃʌnt/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ʃʌnt/, /ʃənt/
  • Rhymes: -ʌnt

Verb

shunt (third-person singular simple present shunts, present participle shunting, simple past and past participle shunted)

  1. (transitive) To cause to move (suddenly), as by pushing or shoving; to give a (sudden) start to.
    Synonym: shove
  2. (transitive) To divert to a less important place, position, or state.
  3. (transitive) To provide with a shunt.
  4. (transitive, computing) To move data in memory to a physical disk.
  5. (transitive, electricity) To divert electric current by providing an alternative path.
  6. (transitive, rail transport) To move a train from one track to another, or to move carriages, etc. from one train to another.
  7. (transitive, chiefly road transport, informal, British) To have a minor collision, especially in a motor car.
  8. (transitive, surgery) To divert the flow of a body fluid.
  9. (transitive, obsolete, British, dialectal) To turn aside or away; to divert.
  10. (finance, UK, historical) To carry on arbitrage between the London stock exchange and provincial stock exchanges.

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Translations

Noun

shunt (plural shunts)

  1. An act of moving (suddenly), as due to a push or shove.
  2. (electricity) A connection used as an alternative path between parts of an electrical circuit.
  3. (firearms) The shifting of the studs on a projectile from the deep to the shallow sides of the grooves in its discharge from a shunt gun.
  4. (medicine, veterinary medicine) An abnormal passage between body channels.
  5. (surgery) A passage between body channels constructed surgically as a bypass; a tube inserted into the body to create such a passage.
  6. (rail transport) A switch on a railway used to move a train from one track to another.
  7. (chiefly road transport, informal, British) A minor collision between vehicles.

Derived terms

  • Ayrton shunt
  • backshunt
  • headshunt, head shunt
  • mis-shunt
  • universal shunt

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References

Further reading

  • shunt (electrical) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • shunt (medical) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • shunting (rail) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • shunt (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Hunts, hunts

French

Noun

shunt m (plural shunts)

  1. (electricity) shunt
  2. (medicine) shunt

Further reading

  • “shunt”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Source: wiktionary.org