What is "shunted"

Usage examples of "shunted".

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.

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.

Petrie and Adelaide and Prickles were shunted northwards in a curious dream.

She scrunched herself tight up against the corridor wall, watching in awe as the cradles magically filled and emptied again as cargo was shunted back and forth to the large composite ships waiting patiently in orbit above for their cargo to be marshalled and the Rowan to push the result off to its destination planet.

She keyed it to open, took a brief look at the coded contents, and then shunted it over to her decryption experts.

We were tightly boxed but Mann shunted us clear and joined the traffic that sped along the rue de Flandres towards central Paris.

If a white left a group, he or she was effortlessly scooped up and shunted into another conversation which might contain one or two pinks but was largely red.

I suggest we get power shunted from the drive chambers to the repair facilities in Underdeck Nine.

One squad of them was an excavation group-derricks, angledozers, mining machines that undercut, blasted and wiped up debris with scything paws onto an endless belt that shunted it away from the field of operation.

Then his luck changed and, like many before and since, he was shunted to the sidelines at age fifty-six, informed that his days of big responsibility were over and given the choice of early retirement or a minor, makework post.

Teacher, the imposing strength of the KK-drive field shunted itself and everything contained within it from ordinary space into that strange region of compacted reality known colloquially as space-plus.

The Ba'th numbered only about 2,500 members at that time, but they had learned the lesson of their previous experience in power and were not going to be shunted aside by their military compatriots again.

I’d known him in college when he was a pure cyberpuke, a twentieth-generation hacker, cortically shunted when he was twelve standard.