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shunt

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Shunt \Shunt\, n. [Cf. D. schuinte slant, slope, declivity. See Shunt , v. t.] (Railroad) A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free. (Elec.) A conducting circuit joining two points in a conductor, or the terminals ...

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Shunt is a London-based performance collective, founded in 1998. Most of the co-founders of Shunt met at Central School of Speech and Drama in London on the Advanced Theatre Practice MA in 1997/1998, which specialises in collaborative practice. In summer ...

Usage examples of shunt.

With absolute disregard of his own life, he hurled himself at Bibbs like a football-player shunting off an opponent, and to Mary it seemed that they both went down together.

The problem could be circumvented by placing a shunt into the vena cava to allow the blood to return to the heart.

After the shunting torment of Central Park South the Autocrat got gridlocked in a theatreland sidestreet.

So, he passes me back to DeepSpace, which shunts me to Lariat, and Colonel Eatinger gets on-line, who hands me off to Styx while he goes dweeb-hunting.

The families might have been permanently shunted to obscurity, saddled with their confusion, guilt and fear but for the fact that the great aunt of one of the victims was a philanthropic member of the board of Western Pediatric Medical Center.

Kirk had had his chance to shunt the blame onto the plebe and he had resisted the temptation to do so.

When the new order was in place, Looncraft intended to shunt Slickens into some barely visible position.

Procyon tapped in, a simple shunt of blood pressure behind both eyes and ears.

Then, by delicately manipulating the variable condensers and inductances of, his sensitive shunting relay circuits, he slowly shifted that frightful rod of energy from frequency to frequency, staring into the brilliant blank-ness of his micrometer screen as he did so.

X rays, scans, shunts, sutures, intravenous feedings, parenteral nutritional supplements, respiratory therapy, and, finally, the autopsy.

A helpful mechanism of my preconsciousness had switched on, shunting both hurt and fear into a sensory limbo beneath my dreams.

Professor Cameron had determined that due to the level of X-ray radiation being emitted by the pulsar, this was the maximum distance the ship could keep and still receive uncorrupted telemetry from the probes once the deflector grid was deployed and began its task of shunting the lethal radiation away from Mestiko.

At the Gare de Lyon, in the early morning, they shunted him round the slow and tedious Girdle Railway to the Gare du Nord, clanked him on the boat train, and sped him northwards again in a revigorated burst of railway energy.

After it was verified in the press that the bloke Roger had wounded could testify against Spinnet, Roger shunted him to the side, hid him away, and began impersonating him using Polyjuice Potion.

With disdain, she shunted the unauthenticated shorts back to the girl who had found them.