different between shunt vs series

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin seri?s, from serere (“to join together, bind”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s??.?i?z/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s??iz/, /?si?iz/
• Homophones: Siri's, Siris, Ceres

Noun

series (plural series)

1. A number of things that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other.

   Synonyms: chain, line, sequence, stream, succession; see also Thesaurus:sequence

2. (broadcasting) A television or radio program which consists of several episodes that are broadcast in regular intervals

   Synonyms: show, program

3. (Discuss⁽⁺⁾ this sense) (mathematics) The sequence of partial sums ${\displaystyle \sum _{i=1}^{n}{a_{i}}}$ of a given sequence a_i.

4. (cricket, baseball) A group of matches between two sides, with the aim being to win more matches than the opposition.

5. (zoology) An unranked taxon.
7. (botany) A subdivision of a genus, a taxonomic rank below that of section (and subsection) but above that of species.
8. (commerce) A parcel of rough diamonds of assorted qualities.
9. (phonology) A set of consonants that share a particular phonetic or phonological feature.

Usage notes

• (mathematics): Beginning students often confuse series with sequence.

Synonyms

• serie (obsolete)

Derived terms

• in series
• (media, television) TV series
• (electrical) series-wound

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (shir?zu)

Translations

Adjective

series (not comparable)

1. (electronics) Connected one after the other in a circuit.

   Antonym: parallel

Further reading

• series in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• series in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• series at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• reises, ressie, seiser

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /s???i.?s/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /se??i.es/

Verb

series

1. second-person singular conditional form of ser

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

series

1. Plural form of serie

Interlingua

Noun

series

1. plural of serie

Latin

Etymology

From ser? (“to bind”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?se.ri.e?s/, [?s???ie?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?se.ri.es/, [?s???i?s]

Noun

seri?s f (genitive seri??); fifth declension

1. a row
2. a succession
3. a series
4. a chain

Declension

Fifth-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• series in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• series in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• series in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• series in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Portuguese

Verb

series

1. second-person singular (tu) present subjunctive of seriar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) negative imperative of seriar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?se?jes/, [?se.?jes]

Etymology 1

Noun

series

1. plural of serie

Etymology 2

Verb

series

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) present subjunctive form of seriar.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) negative imperative form of seriar.

Swedish

Noun

series

1. indefinite genitive singular of serie