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▸ verb:  (transitive) To cause to move (suddenly), as by pushing or shoving; to give a (sudden) start to.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To divert to a less important place, position, or state.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To provide with a shunt.
▸ verb:  (transitive, computing) To move data in memory to a physical disk.
▸ verb:  (transitive, electricity) To divert electric current by providing an alternative path.
▸ verb:  (transitive, rail transport) To move a train from one track to another, or to move carriages, etc. from one train to another.
▸ verb:  (transitive, chiefly road transport, informal, British) To have a minor collision, especially in a motor car.
▸ verb:  (transitive, surgery) To divert the flow of a body fluid.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete, British, dialectal) To turn aside or away; to divert.
▸ verb:  (finance, UK, historical) To carry on arbitrage between the London stock exchange and provincial stock exchanges.
▸ noun:  An act of moving (suddenly), as due to a push or shove.
▸ noun:  (electricity) A connection used as an alternative path between parts of an electrical circuit.
▸ noun:  (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.
▸ noun:  (medicine, veterinary medicine) An abnormal passage between body channels.
▸ noun:  (surgery) A passage between body channels constructed surgically as a bypass; a tube inserted into the body to create such a passage.
▸ noun:  (rail transport) A switch on a railway used to move a train from one track to another.
▸ noun:  (chiefly road transport, informal, British) A minor collision between vehicles.

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