different between shuns vs shunt

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nz/

Verb

shuns

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of shun

English

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 sh?nen (“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 scunian, scynigan; see shun. Or
• an alteration of Middle English shunden, *schunden, *schinden, from Old English scyndan, scendan (“to hasten, hurry”) (as in ?scyndan (“to remove, take away”), from Proto-Germanic *skundijan? (“to compel, drive, push; to accelerate, rush, speed up”), from Proto-Indo-European *sku(n)t-, *ku(n)t- (“to rattle; to shake”).

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 ???????? (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): /??nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??nt/, /??nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

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, Britain) To have a minor collision, especially in a motor car.
8. (transitive, surgery) To divert the flow of a body fluid.
9. (transitive, obsolete, Britain, dialectal) To turn aside or away; to divert.

Derived terms

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, Britain) A minor collision between vehicles.

Derived terms

• backshunt
• headshunt, head shunt

Translations

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