different between shunt vs 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

English

Etymology

From Middle English sh?nen (“decline to do, avoid, fear”), from Old English scunian, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd?- (“to cover, wrap, encase”), from *(s)kewH- (“to cover, hide”); if so, cognate with Old English h?dan (“to hide, conceal, preserve”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n/
• Rhymes: -?n

Verb

shun (third-person singular simple present shuns, present participle shunning, simple past and past participle shunned)

1. (transitive) To avoid, especially persistently.
2. (transitive) To escape (a threatening evil, an unwelcome task etc).
3. (transitive) To screen, hide.
4. (transitive) To shove, push.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• shun in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• shun in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Anagrams

• Huns, USNH, huns

Japanese

Romanization

shun

1. R?maji transcription of ???

Mandarin

Romanization

shun

1. Nonstandard spelling of sh?n.
2. Nonstandard spelling of shùn.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.