Shunt
verb
To push or move to one side or from the main line or course.
The faulty train was shunted into a siding
Often appears as...
- shunt aside
- shunt off
noun
A surgical procedure connecting two parts of the body to allow flow between them.
The doctor performed a shunt to redirect the blood flow in his brain
Usage tips
Medical
verb
To change a person's position or job to a less important one.
After the new manager arrived, Bill was shunted to a side office
Often appears as...
- shunt aside
- shunt down
Usage tips
Informal
verb
To push or move to one side or from the main line or course.
The faulty train was shunted into a siding
Often appears as...
- shunt aside
- shunt off
noun
A surgical procedure connecting two parts of the body to allow flow between them.
The doctor performed a shunt to redirect the blood flow in his brain
Usage tips
Medical
verb
To change a person's position or job to a less important one.
After the new manager arrived, Bill was shunted to a side office
Often appears as...
- shunt aside
- shunt down
Usage tips
Informal
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Movement
Use 'shunt' when an object is physically moved aside, often on rails or tracks.
During rush hour, some empty trains are shunted to holding tracks.
Pro Tip 2/3Intentional Action
'Shunt' implies deliberate action, not accidental.
The crew deliberately shunted the damaged car off the main road.
Pro Tip 3/3Disruption Implication
Using 'shunt' can suggest disruption or an inconvenience caused.
Passengers were annoyed when their carriage was shunted to the back.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Movement
Use 'shunt' when an object is physically moved aside, often on rails or tracks.
During rush hour, some empty trains are shunted to holding tracks.
Pro Tip 2/3Intentional Action
'Shunt' implies deliberate action, not accidental.
The crew deliberately shunted the damaged car off the main road.
Pro Tip 3/3Disruption Implication
Using 'shunt' can suggest disruption or an inconvenience caused.
Passengers were annoyed when their carriage was shunted to the back.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Movement
Use 'shunt' when an object is physically moved aside, often on rails or tracks.
During rush hour, some empty trains are shunted to holding tracks.
Pro Tip 2/3Intentional Action
'Shunt' implies deliberate action, not accidental.
The crew deliberately shunted the damaged car off the main road.
Pro Tip 3/3Disruption Implication
Using 'shunt' can suggest disruption or an inconvenience caused.
Passengers were annoyed when their carriage was shunted to the back.
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How fear drives American...
about the things that are going to change the world of tomorrow," you'd get a blank stare. I know, because when I wrote this book, I talked to 150 people, many from the science and tech side, who felt like they were being shunted off to the kids' table. Meanwhile, on the tech side, we have lots of wonderful people creating wonderful things,
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How will we survive when...
Now, wizards regard all this as hooey. They see it as a recipe for narrowness, regression, and global poverty. Prophet-style agriculture, they say, only extends the human footprint and shunts more people into low-wage agricultural labor. Those neighborhood-run solar facilities, they sound great,
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Charles Limb: Your brain...
When you're in an fMRI scanner, you're in a big magnet that's aligning your molecules in certain areas. When an area of the brain is active, meaning a neural area is active, it gets blood flow shunted to that area. That blood flow causes an increase in local blood to that area
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Your brain on improv -...
when you're in an fMRI scanner you're in a big magnet that's aligning your molecules in certain areas when an area of the brain is active meaning areas act if it gets blood flow shunted to that area that blood flow causes an increase in local blood to that area
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How I held my breath for...
And I knew that that was blood shunting, when the blood rushes away from your extremities to provide oxygen to your vital organs. At 11 minutes I started feeling throbbing sensations in my legs, and my lips started to feel really strange.
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How Fear and Anxiety...
blood being shunted away from our extremities and into the larger muscle groups because if we needed to escape it would be necessary those organs be heavily involved the world has changed and threats typically aren't as
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Sarah Jones: One woman,...
let's please just consider doing the actual ocular reading, okay? And also, how many people have your emotional shunts engaged? Right. Please toggle them off. Okay?
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Live Drawings of the...
despite the shunt in his chest, this boy wielded a Power Rangers sword and went after life with so much energy and an ear-to-ear grin.
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Best Animal Mating...
holds his own then he makes a small mistake shunted aside his challenge is brutally ended
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Bison Fight for Mating...
Then he makes a small mistake. Shunted aside, his challenge is brutally ended.
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How fear drives American...
about the things that are going to change the world of tomorrow," you'd get a blank stare. I know, because when I wrote this book, I talked to 150 people, many from the science and tech side, who felt like they were being shunted off to the kids' table. Meanwhile, on the tech side, we have lots of wonderful people creating wonderful things,
Video examples
How will we survive when...
Now, wizards regard all this as hooey. They see it as a recipe for narrowness, regression, and global poverty. Prophet-style agriculture, they say, only extends the human footprint and shunts more people into low-wage agricultural labor. Those neighborhood-run solar facilities, they sound great,
Video examples
Charles Limb: Your brain...
When you're in an fMRI scanner, you're in a big magnet that's aligning your molecules in certain areas. When an area of the brain is active, meaning a neural area is active, it gets blood flow shunted to that area. That blood flow causes an increase in local blood to that area
Video examples
Your brain on improv -...
when you're in an fMRI scanner you're in a big magnet that's aligning your molecules in certain areas when an area of the brain is active meaning areas act if it gets blood flow shunted to that area that blood flow causes an increase in local blood to that area
Video examples
How I held my breath for...
And I knew that that was blood shunting, when the blood rushes away from your extremities to provide oxygen to your vital organs. At 11 minutes I started feeling throbbing sensations in my legs, and my lips started to feel really strange.
Video examples
How Fear and Anxiety...
blood being shunted away from our extremities and into the larger muscle groups because if we needed to escape it would be necessary those organs be heavily involved the world has changed and threats typically aren't as
Video examples
Sarah Jones: One woman,...
let's please just consider doing the actual ocular reading, okay? And also, how many people have your emotional shunts engaged? Right. Please toggle them off. Okay?
Video examples
Live Drawings of the...
despite the shunt in his chest, this boy wielded a Power Rangers sword and went after life with so much energy and an ear-to-ear grin.
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Best Animal Mating...
holds his own then he makes a small mistake shunted aside his challenge is brutally ended
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Bison Fight for Mating...
Then he makes a small mistake. Shunted aside, his challenge is brutally ended.
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Michelle Alexander
American Writer
In a sense, mass incarceration has emerged as a far more extreme form of physical and residential segregation than Jim Crow segregation. Rather than merely shunting people of color to the other side of town, people are locked in literal cages - en masse.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
American First Lady
Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
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Winnie Byanyima
Ugandan Politician
We treat a planet at crisis point as an externality that can be shunted into a future generation. We continue to act as if we had the natural resources of several planets, not one.
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Dick Van Dyke
American Actor
Unfortunately, the spouses of performers have a terrible, terrible life. They get shunted aside, pushed aside, ignored.
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Layla Moran
British Politician
We need a government that takes climate change seriously, one that doesn't shunt it to the side-lines.
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Michelle Alexander
American Writer
In a sense, mass incarceration has emerged as a far more extreme form of physical and residential segregation than Jim Crow segregation. Rather than merely shunting people of color to the other side of town, people are locked in literal cages - en masse.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
American First Lady
Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
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Winnie Byanyima
Ugandan Politician
We treat a planet at crisis point as an externality that can be shunted into a future generation. We continue to act as if we had the natural resources of several planets, not one.
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Dick Van Dyke
American Actor
Unfortunately, the spouses of performers have a terrible, terrible life. They get shunted aside, pushed aside, ignored.
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Layla Moran
British Politician
We need a government that takes climate change seriously, one that doesn't shunt it to the side-lines.
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