shunt

1. (transitive)To cause to move (suddenly), as by pushing or shoving; to give a (sudden) start to.

2. (transitive)To divert to a less important place, position, or state.

3. (transitive)To provide with a shunt.

   to shunt a galvanometer

   provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt

4. (transitive)To move data in memory to a physical disk.

5. (transitive)To divert electric current by providing an alternative path.

   шунти́роватьšuntírovatʹ

6. (transitive)To move a train from one track to another, or to move carriages, etc. from one train to another.

   rangieren

   маневри́роватьmanevrírovatʹ

   transfer to another track, of trains

7. (UK, informal, transitive)To have a minor collision, especially in a motor car.

8. (transitive)To divert the flow of a body fluid.

   шунтироватьšuntirovatʹ

9. (UK, historical)To carry on arbitrage between the London stock exchange and provincial stock exchanges.

10. (UK, dialectal, obsolete, transitive)To turn aside or away; to divert.

    verlagern

1. He had a shunt in his heart.

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2. Can we shunt the water over to the canal?

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3. I spent my childhood being shunted between my divorced parents.

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