Can we shunt the water over to the canal?
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Shunt
//ʃʌnt//
Synonyms for "shunt" (87 found)
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Closest matches (18)
Strong matches (26)
Related words (43)
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11 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entrieshas context
10 entriesis a
4 entriesmanner of
2 entriespart of
1 entriesrelated to
30 entriesShowing 16 of 30 words.
Translations
83 translations across 21 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- حَوَّلَ verb (to divert to a less important place, position, or state)
Bulgarian
4 entries- стрелка noun (railway switch)
- шунт noun (electric connection)
- маневрирам verb (to move a train or carriages)
- премествам verb (to divert to a less important place, position, or state)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 分流 verb (to divert to a less important place, position, or state)
Czech
4 entries- odsunout verb (to divert to a less important place, position, or state)
- posunovat verb (to move a train or carriages)
- přesunout verb (to move a train or carriages)
- přešoupnout verb (to divert to a less important place, position, or state)
Dutch
1 entries- rangeren verb (to move a train or carriages)
Finnish
3 entries- suntti noun (electric connection)
- suntti noun (surgical bypass)
- vaihde noun (railway switch)
French
4 entries- accrochage noun (minor collision between vehicles)
- aiguillage noun (railway switch)
- dérivation noun (electric connection)
- pontage noun (surgical bypass)
German
4 entries- Nebenschlusswiderstand noun (electric connection)
- Shunt noun (electric connection)
- Shunt noun (surgical bypass)
- rangieren verb (to move a train or carriages)
Hungarian
2 entries- mellékáramkör noun (electric connection)
- sönt noun (electric connection)
Ido
1 entries- garar verb (to move a train or carriages)
Irish
2 entries- seachród noun (electric connection)
- siúnt verb (to move a train or carriages)
Italian
4 entries- cortocircuito noun (surgical bypass)
- derivatore noun (electric connection)
- derivazione noun (electric connection)
- deviazione noun (surgical bypass)
Japanese
2 entries- ポイント noun (railway switch)
- 待避する verb (to move a train or carriages)
Malay
3 entries- beralih verb (to divert to a less important place, position, or state)
- berpindah verb (to divert to a less important place, position, or state)
- memiraukan verb (to move a train or carriages)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- shunt noun (surgical bypass)
Occitan
1 entries- cambiar de via verb (to move a train or carriages)
Polish
3 entries- bocznik noun (electric connection)
- przetoka noun (surgical bypass)
- bocznikować verb (to divert electric current)
Portuguese
1 entries- derivação noun (electric connection)
Romanian
1 entries- șunt noun (electric connection)
Russian
4 entries- шунт noun (electric connection)
- шунт noun (surgical bypass)
- маневри́ровать verb (to move a train or carriages)
- шунти́ровать verb (to divert electric current)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- premoštenje noun (surgical bypass)
- prémosnica noun (surgical bypass)
- šȁnt noun (electric connection)
- šȁnt noun (surgical bypass)
Sample sentences
25 total sentences available.
He had a shunt in his heart.
Source: tatoeba (8978521)
If she'd known that her mother would shunt her off to one babysitter after another, maybe she would have insisted on staying with her Nana.
Source: tatoeba (9496284)
For we are all shunting—shunting—shunting / We're all shunting in this queer world of ours. / Nations are shunted like to our railway carriages: / As Napoleon shunted la belle France into war; / Princes are shunted into royal marriages; / Kings and Queens are shunted just like a railway car.
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