How To Use Shunt In A Sentence

This involved crossing a part of the line where there were several sidings and branch lines, on which a good deal of pushing of trucks and carriages to and fro -- that is "shunting" -- was going on. The Iron Horse
A kind of power balance electric regulator which is used to balance output power between generators when several wind driven generators are shuntly fed to a battery set is introduced.
Most rural stations had a staff of at least six, and perhaps up to a dozen, who them carried out the duties of stationmaster, signalman, booking clerk, ticket collector, porter, shunter, lengthman and lampman.
The countless mini-roundabouts popping up where there just simply isn't room for a roundabout is another danger, increasing the number of small shunts & bumps.
Several other Argus executives were also shunted sideways.

This medical condition usually requires the surgical placement of a shunt system to divert cerebrospinal fluid to another part of the body.
The trouble with labelling fiction is that it can get shunted into the sidings of literature.
It clearly wasn't a minor shunt. The Sun
The other two were shunted back to Calais. Times, Sunday Times
Patients are being shunted around the city because there are not enough A&E beds.
Efficiency and continuity probably do require that the train be shunted into a well-prepared and easily accessible Belgian siding.
Trading in their own currency would allow them to shunt foreign-exchange risk to someone else, especially if Beijing resumes yuan appreciation.
According to Mr Hiller, his shunter has to withstand decelerations of 5g (ie, five times the force of the Earth's gravitational field).
Placing a shunt (a small, flexible tube) into the fetal bladder to provide continuous drainage when a obstruction is present. Glossary
The picture galleries of the High Museum are treated as subsidiary spaces shunted off from the proportionally dominant, glass-paneled entry rotunda, which is flooded with daylight and unusable for the display of works that require careful conservation. The Big Rock Candy Mountain
Well, if you’re Roald Dahl, you team up with a couple of other guys to invent a brain shunt to ease the pain. Unexpected Inventions from Unexpected People | Impact Lab
Unlike an out-of-service subway car, a broken-down section of sidewalk could not simply be shunted aside.
There was a crash in practice on Fri day, for instance, to go with a couple of shunts in pre-season testing.
The train shunted forward and back unbalancing the mouse and forcing him to grip my arm with his sharp claws to avoid falling to the floor.
Engage forward and reverse gears and shunt backwards and forwards, listening for unusual transmission noises.
To provide anatomical basis for treatment of the deep venous thrombosis of lower limb with deep femoral vein shunting to contralateral great saphenous vein.
Perhaps the only trades which are exclusive to railways in their nomenclature are platelayers, shunters and signalmen.
More noteworthy is that the superior mesenteric angiograms showed shunting of blood from the arterioles to the venous channels, bypassing the capillaries.
Normal people don't duck and dive and shunt their money around like betting chips on a roulette table. The Sun
He needed a drainage shunt implantation to save his life.
Originally sited in the Guildhall, it was soon shunted off to Exhibition Buildings, then, 50 years ago, to West Bank Park.
Industrial production shunted homemade products aside, and with them went the popular knowledge of what was safe. Times, Sunday Times
CC, grant me da kerrij 2 chaynj da fingz I can, da payshuntz 2 aksept da fingz I caynt chaynj, n da wizzdum 2 hyd da boddeez uv da ppl I hadded 2 kill cuz dey hakt me awf… Trust me - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
Shunted out of the mainstream, he was parodied by artists who rendered him a hippie or muscle-bound clown.
The suddenly orphaned 15-year-old Melanie and her siblings are shunted off to live in south London with their mysterious Uncle Philip, a toymaker who rules his family, including his mute wife and her Irish brothers, with a rod of iron.
Thomas Spray, MD: The so called Blalock-Taussig shunt, which was one of the first operations devised for children with cyanotic congenital heart disease, that is patients who were blue. Tetralogy of Fallot — Life After TOF Surgery
To recover from the shunt on Saturday and go on to win the second event was very satisfying indeed.
All four West Lothian candidates were shunted out.
But AdMob isn't about to sit down and take that kind of shunting; in a blog post today, AdMob CEO Omar Hamoui called the move "not in the best interests of users or developers. Fast Company
In this instance, the error due to shunt loading is approximately 9 %.
More than 800 railway shunters, signal operators and pointsmen from 10 stations across Sri Lanka struck for 24 hours on May 26 to demand a salary increase.
He attempted to cover up his blunders by shunting the blame onto dead subordinates.
Telephone booking fees are another ploy used by airlines to shunt us online. Times, Sunday Times
Ultimately, the shunts were converted to jejunoileostomies in which the upper portion of the jejunum was anastomosed to the lower portion of the ileum.
This paper proposes a novel principle of segregated phase current differential protection in UHV long distance transmission line with shunt reactor installed in the middle segment.
The engine of the goods train is shunting by the track near the godown.
Two shunting locomotives with the same engine, torque converter and final drive, but driving each axle on both bogies, were bought of Clayton Equipment Company the same year.
He has spent most of his life being shunted between his mother, father and various foster families.
Lead, not being a ferromagnetic material, cannot shield or shunt magnetic fields in this way.
The surgical shunt will also be removed from her heart and a kink in the artery leading from her heart to her left lung will also be repaired.
Cheshunt has good rail connections to London.
These were the employees who operated the railway: the station staff, the signalmen, the shunters and the guards on the trains.
Andrew's tutorage I had learned to distinguish the rumble of a "goods" from the rush of a "passenger," a two-engine haul from a single, and even the heavy voice of the big old "shunter" that lived about the Some Everyday Folk and Dawn
A transesophageal echocardiogram disclosed a probable fenestrated atrial septum with an aneurysm and a bidirectional shunting that was confirmed by cardiac catheterization in supine position.
The North Korean side said the accident was between two train wagons that were being shunted on a siding, not a collision of two trains as had been previously believed.
And that's what we're being shunted back towards now. Times, Sunday Times
All the passengers were told that our train would be shunted across the suburbs to join up with the other train, now waiting for us at another terminus, and this would take two or three hours.
This occurs when the ambient air and wind cause convective heat loss, which the body combats by shunting blood from extremities toward the core.
The shunt left the car with damaged suspension, bodywork and even broke the crankcase in the backwards impact.
This launched a massive plume of warm air high into the atmosphere that led to bitterly cold Arctic air being shunted down through Europe. Times, Sunday Times
Horse race politics dominates the political gabfests, with corporate power shunted to the sidelines.
These are of course available only at decennial intervals, and the Statistical Office translated ‘railway employment’ to mean those jobs which could not be done other than on the railway - signalman, guard, platelayer, shunter, etc.
We introduce a kind of shunt-wound structure with a linear adaptive filter and a nonlinear adaptive filter. Using it, we design adaptive modeling, adaptive inverse modeling and controller.
*wayting pashuntlee in lion wayting payshuntlee in lion* This is my opinion - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
Other bionic devices on the horizon include implantable monitors that will track pressure in the brains of spina bifida patients who require fluid-draining shunts.
University terms may have to be shunted back to allow time for the application process. Times, Sunday Times
Keighley's pack was seldom outplayed by Scarborough's robust efforts up front, even though it was shunted backwards from time to time in the scrummages.
The total included carmen, seamen from the cross-Channel ferries, hotel and catering staff as well as those more predictable grades of cleaner, fireman, guard, shunter and driver.
Anthony, who also works on the railway as a shunter, took up running after seeing how it improved Martin's fitness.
Eventually got to work 35 minutes late, once the offending train had shunted into the sidings.
Among them, one of the most studied is the anaplerotic utilisation of intracellular carbon sources through the glyoxylate shunt enzyme ICL icl gene after M. tuberculosis infection of macrophages and dendritic cells PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
A tremendous shunt from the French pack at the first scrum on New Zealand ball saw the visiting front row buckle and pop under pressure, and Dupuy made no mistake from 35 metres after three minutes. Undefined
The crew consisted of the stoker and driver, the guard and assistant guard, the shunter, the station master (or should I say ‘person’) and the signalman.
Travellers are shunted into sites that are like urban slums, only without the amenities.
Inadequate hydration causes the body to extract water from nonvital tissues in order to shunt water to key organs heart, brain, and kidneys. The Source
Perhaps the only trades which are exclusive to railways in their nomenclature are platelayers, shunters and signalmen.
For the lowest noise, you should try to select a PD with maximum shunt resistance and low capacitance.
For far too long now, the youths have had the feeling of having been shunted into the position of secondary citizens.
Viewers are fed up with their favourite sitcoms being shunted to later times to make way for live football coverage.
Perhaps the only trades which are exclusive to railways in their nomenclature are platelayers, shunters and signalmen.
Objective : To evaluate left gastric vein shunt index ( LGVSI ) for predicting esophageal variceal bleeding.
Politicians like the idea of shunting it all to commissions, or to the attorney general, to anybody else but themselves, ANC Daily News Briefing
The field of this machine is shunt-wound, and in order to maintain the potential constant a hand-regulated resistance -- R2 on the switch board -- is added in circuit with the shunt field. Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889
After an hour you reach the top, a shunting yard next to the phosphate mine, and then you trundle back down again through deep romantic chasms and caverns measureless to man.
Traditionally, syringomyelia has been treated with shunting of the cyst by placement of a catheter between the cyst and the subarachnoid space or pleural cavity.
The study, which involved 158 mothers carrying babies with spina bifida, found that sealing up the defective spinal cords before they were born also significantly reduced the chances they would need a tube known as a shunt surgically implanted to drain fluid from their brains. Study: Surgery in womb helps babies with spina bifida
Families must understand that fetal bladder shunting is only a temporary measure, and more detailed evaluation and surgical therapy will be necessary after birth. Lower Urinary Tract Obstruction (LUTO)
Then as soon as he shunted the cars on to a public road, the police sprang into action and arrested him. The Sun
The GM diesel engine shunted the coaches to Platform 4.
He shunted away her protests with a shrug of his shoulders.
Too high a tidal volume or a pressure and we risk various forms of barotrauma and too little of either seems to be associated with atelectasis ,blood shunting and another form of ventilator induced lung damage from forces related to opening and closing of gas exchange units. Archive 2008-02-01
The little Yoshunta beckoned to her, and she followed.
The shunter had one of the railway's most dangerous jobs, particularly in the Enfield yards - the largest in Australia, containing over one hundred miles of track.
Hear the sheer drag of scythe on metal the shunter makes at the curve of the viaduct while, with elongated wail, rolls three spoil-wagons to the hollow hill. Unmanned
The most important of these results consisted in this, that the electromotive force produced in a "shunt-wound machine," as it was called, increased with the external resistance, whereby the great fluctuations formerly inseparable from electric arc lighting could be obviated, and thus, by the double means of exciting the electro-magnets, still greater uniformity of current was attainable. Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883
It is hardly a secret that one of the main reasons he was shunted out of the cabinet and into the party organisation was the friction that had risen between him and Advani.
But it's a disgrace the case was shunted aside in the first place. The Sun
It's obviously no fun being in a car shunt. The Sun
In addition, accusative case on who does not typically survive when the word is shunted to the beginning of an interrogative or relative clause.
He ploughed into a metal container, which was shunted 60 ft before coming to rest within inches of the bungalow.
-- Fig. 32 represents what is known as a "shunt-wound" dynamo. Electricity for Boys
On the same day points-men and shunters at the Sri Lankan Railway Dematagoda work site suddenly walked out on strike on October 20 to protest the withholding of overtime pay.
Many of them have shunted aside film work. Times, Sunday Times
When a doctor suggests implanting a ‘shunt’ to ease future operations, the patient is reluctant to have a spigot installed in his head.
To create the fat-burning mice, the researchers focused on a metabolic strategy used by some bacteria and plants called the glyoxylate shunt. Can Burning Excess Fat Be As Easy As Exhaling? | Impact Lab
One by one, most of the bears either changed their views or found themselves shunted aside. DOT.CON
Just to show how one of those pinfeather Passions may be shunted onto Ade's Fables
The train was shunted onto a siding and wreckage was strewn along 200 yards of track.
Points-men and shunters at the Sri Lankan Railway work site in Maligawatte, Colombo struck on October 25 over a management decision to cut two hours' overtime pay from every 24 hours worked.
He has spent most of his life being shunted between his mother, father and various foster families.
In the first leg in Madrid, he was shunted out to a role on the right wing. Times, Sunday Times
Too high a tidal volume or a pressure and we risk various forms of barotrauma and too little of either seems to be associated with atelectasis ,blood shunting and another form of ventilator induced lung damage from forces related to opening and closing of gas exchange units. Complex trials for complex condition can be ..well complex
He shunted firmly into the sidings the prospect of granting long-term rights to run certain services, seeking to speed the pace of improvement.
Mason who had already won the Dutch championships would have clinched the European title earlier but for a major shunt on an earlier round which necessitated the introduction of the safety car.
He has clocked up nearly a million miles but had only one accident - when another car shunted into him. The Sun
Rachel did this by 'herself' with the shunter watching - when 'she' had finished 'she' said to the shunter testily "If you had been a gentleman you would have done that for me." to which the shunter said "And if you had been a lady I would have done. Happy Valentines Day I Don`t Think
Engine and shunting drivers, technologists and their assistants, shunters, points-men and signalers were involved.
Large volumes of blood are shunted from one end of the body to the other, increasing circulation and producing an almost cardiovascular effect. Times, Sunday Times
A group of cars had shunted up against the doors of a long shed and the men were cramming their boots with meat for the towns. The Crossing-Place
A third articulated lorry travelling behind the three vehicles also moved across and as it did so ploughed into the back of the car, shunting it into the trucks in front.
In order to get good action shots we often have go in front of the catch fencing from the guidance of the race marshals and if a car does go out of control it usually shunts in the tyre wall and comes to rest.
Programmable shunts allow surgeons to adjust the settings on the shunt from outside the body, thereby decreasing the need for repeated surgeries.
Even the sound of trains shunting in sidings has been asked for, according to a new review of funeral ceremonies.
Many jobs were no more nor less dangerous than thousands of posts in other walks of life, but for shunters, goods guards and brakesmen, permanent way staff and platelayers the story was different.
But it's a disgrace the case was shunted aside in the first place. The Sun
But he'd been shunted into staff jobs instead of command positions in World War II.
Left gastric vein in bleeding group was all hepatofugal and shunt index was definitely high.
On throwing the handle over, and against the end of the wagon, the crank moves over and below the center, lifting up the catch into a position out of range of action, and from this position it cannot fall except it is released by the shunter. Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887
And that's what we're being shunted back towards now. Times, Sunday Times
The car inexplicably shunted forward as soon as the key was put in the ignition (with the handbrake on and the manual gearbox in neutral). Times, Sunday Times
Borg's speech recognition bundle ran over the audio input and automatically shunted over into the acronyms subfile; however the probability matrix rejected all prompts for'C.I. ' If IT Were YOU
She had to have surgery for a liver shunt at 13 weeks.
The radical and political side of Twain is often shunted aside and forgotten, while Twain the funnyman is the one most remembered today. OnlineAthens: Top Headlines
There's no registry of people who are coming through, if they're sort of having them enter, and then kind of shunting them onto the next thing. CNN Transcript Sep 4, 2005
Freight Train 36 has been shunted on to Track 6.
To date, the problem with Anne Hathaway has been that while she does indeed look beautifully luminescent on screen, she has so far been shunted into a kind of oxbow lake of dreary roles: sweet, dribbly characters who must find their inner fire if they are to find true love. The First Post: Latest
Two others on a SECOND quad bike clipped by the train ran off as their machine was shunted off the tracks and wrecked. The Sun
Doctors put in a shunt to drain the fluid in his brain.
Among them, one of the most studied is the anaplerotic utilisation of intracellular carbon sources through the glyoxylate shunt enzyme ICL icl gene after M. tuberculosis infection of macrophages and dendritic cells PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
These include arteriovenous shunts, giving rise to congestive heart failure, bleeding diathesis due to platelet consumption, and massive hemoperitoneum resulting in rupture.
A lorry nine times the weight of the minibus struck the bus head-on, flipping it over and over, and shunting it back up the hill.
The train operating companies have shunted all the blame onto Railtrack and have received compensation for delays.
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Somewhere in the distance a train was shunting; _clank, clank, clank_ went the wagons. The House with the Green Shutters
Railway shunters, pointsmen, signalmen and yardmasters began an indefinite strike at midnight on August 5, demanding the immediate settlement of salary anomalies.
Meanwhile, an advanced new system with brake support and automatic braking will help avoid rear-end shunts.
In other words, the initial credit inducement may become accepted as the norm, thus shunting all cash inflows forwards.
Most of the killing radiation was shunted by that ship's isotropic coating, but something got through. METAPLANETARY
A British Rail Class 03 Diesel-mechanical shunter (switcher) with a jackshaft under the cab. WN.com - Articles related to Steven Spielberg eyes Australia for new dinosaur movie
Shunt your suitcases,let me go through.
Harry felt scared to see him walking along, undefended, shieldless; he wanted to cry out a warning, but his headless guard kept shunting him backwards towards the wall, blocking his every attempt to gel out from behind it. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
A 41-year-old white man was referred for evaluation of a splenic artery aneurysm and an acquired splenorenal venous shunt.
A British Rail Class 03 Diesel-mechanical shunter (switcher) with a jackshaft under the cab. WN.com - Articles related to Steven Spielberg eyes Australia for new dinosaur movie
Couldn't you let me shunt over a truck t'other side _now_, Sam?" asked its driver remonstratively. The Iron Horse
In the fall, nutrients are shunted from the leaves and culms down to the rhizosphere for winter storage. Phragmites australis - cryptic invasion of the Common Reed in North America
Heart size and pulmonart vascular prominence depend on the size of shunt.
The car inexplicably shunted forward as soon as the key was put in the ignition (with the handbrake on and the manual gearbox in neutral). Times, Sunday Times
A century of diking, shunting, damming, and draining has reduced much of this vast wetland to prairie and, in places, has left only Shark Slough, the main artery of the river, still flowing.
Spirits lifted as the train shunted into Kilmarnock, passengers disembarking with a spring in their step and £signs in their eyes in readiness for the spring sale.
The result is that patients from far-flung areas have begun to displace local patients, causing the latter to be shunted elsewhere or simply refused admission.
We introduce a kind of shunt-wound structure with a linear adaptive filter and a nonlinear adaptive filter. Using it, we design adaptive modeling, adaptive inverse modeling and controller.
When a freelance writer in his fifties or sixties once came in to pitch stories, uninterested senior editors shunted him down to Macfarlane.
Eddie's going to show Carr what was lost by shunting him to the backbench.
They mainly involved cars skidding into fence posts and shunting other vehicles.
At about 9am, five vehicles were involved in a shunt in thick fog on the A64 at Barton Hill.
Correction of hemodynamic abnormalities by vesicoamniotic shunting in familial congenital megacystis. Obstructive Uropathy, Fetal Intervention for Obstructive Uropathy
Horse race politics dominates the political gabfests, with corporate power shunted to the sidelines.
The other attempt which must have been dreadful, he and a friend, escaped from the compound and waited near a train siding, clambered under the train and suspended themselves under the carriage/truck between the wheels, clinging on for a long time the train finally stopped at where they believed should have been Switzerland, to find it had shunted onto another line and had rerouted back into Austria. Ron Cridge
When these working-class allies tried to send a delegation to the capital, hostile railway workers shunted their train into a siding and left them stranded.
It had shunting yards, coking ovens, a brand-new railway station, its own brewery and brickworks.
The company's products and services also include implantable neurological pain, tremor, spasticity, and incontinence management systems; heart valves; catheters and stents for angioplasty; implantable drug administration systems; hydrocephalic shunts; autotransfusion equipment; disposable devices for handling and monitoring blood during surgery; and instruments and devices used in surgical procedures of the head and spine and by ear, nose, and throat physicians. The Money Times - finance news, lifestyle, markets, investment, personal finance, banking, retirement planning
The finding that fetuses with hydrops are at very high risk for fetal or neonatal demise led to the performance of either fetal surgical resection of the massively enlarged pulmonary lobe (fetal lobectomy) for cystic/solid lesions or thoracoamniotic shunting for lesions with a dominant cyst. Bronchopulmonary sequestration and Congenital Cystic Adenomatoid
But temperatures have risen again as the persistent high-pressure system that brought the freeze was shunted away by a high-altitude jet stream. Times, Sunday Times
The considerably lower activity found in malignant ascites may explain why coagulopathy after shunting is less pronounced in this group of patients.
Because the shunt path creates a short circuit, the varistor and the line fuse are subject to be damaged or weakened in the process.
John was shunted sideways to a job in sales.
Yet he will conjure a few bars in the minor where possible and darken textures by shunting to the subdominant.
Railway shunters, pointsmen, signalmen and yardmasters began an indefinite strike at midnight on August 5, demanding the immediate settlement of salary anomalies.
The poor shunter - he's the one who has to go home and explain the love-bites to his missus. A Fire Raging in Islington
But last week's air chaos must have shunted that back another year. Times, Sunday Times
I am, thing Sing Larynx, letter potent to play the sem backwards like Oscan wild or in shunt Persse trans-luding from the Otherman or off the Toptic or anything off the types of my finklers in the draught or with buttles, with my oyes thickshut and all. Finnegans Wake
Many jobs were no more nor less dangerous than thousands of posts in other walks of life, but for shunters, goods guards and brakesmen, permanent way staff and platelayers the story was different.
Portacaval shunt surgery has not enjoyed great popularity because of the very high incidence of postoperative encephalopathy in the elderly.
You'd know," said the nurse grimly, pushing open another door and shunting Rebecca inside. THE IMAGE OF LAURA
He has spent most of his life being shunted between his mother, father and various foster families.
Now that the AKC is going to recognize thishunting breed, I sure hope the breed isn't ruined for the sake of popularity and a quick buck. What's The Best All-Around Hunting Dog?
Ouyang Kai with Zhang Shuntai in joint administration sea steady revenue bond fund.
Schematic circuit diagram for controller drum with reversing and braking circuit for d.c. shunt-wound motor 4. Electrical Machines
There were a number of near accidents and shunts after the work was completed because vehicles were unable to stop.
These were the employees who operated the railway: the station staff, the signalmen, the shunters and the guards on the trains.
He said he had seen a crash and a shunt on Monday and a bump on Tuesday.
When it was determined not to be a Rembrandt at all, it was shunted off to a hidden corner The painting hasn't changed, but the meaning of it has for its viewers.
There are trains of every description going in and out of tunnels, up mountains' shunting, backing going around in bigger and bigger circles - a paradise for modellers.
But last week's air chaos must have shunted that back another year. Times, Sunday Times
We can only use shunt-wound dynamos conveniently for that purpose. Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887
I have 3 bludgeonings scheduled for Thursday, a routine decapitation on Friday, and I'll be "shunting" all weekend! Pretty/Scary
As the second vehicle was shunted to the side of the road, officers saw Smith apparently waving a weapon.
A grand total of six trains per day shunts through Fearn.
Preliminary results appear promising: fewer babies who have had surgery require shunts to drain fluid from their brains.
Furthermore, earlier studies reported glyoxylate shunt activity in chickens and rats, suggesting that higher organisms might retain the genes for this pathway but don’t use them; it might be possible to activate dormant genes. Can Burning Excess Fat Be As Easy As Exhaling? | Impact Lab
At the same time the theatre management approached the railways and the trains stopped shunting in the evenings.
The international partners were unhappy, but their concerns were shunted aside. MEASURING AMERICA
Aims:To evaluate the role of increased portal pressure and portosystemic shunting in elevated level of prostacyclin(PGI2) in portal hypertension.
Most of the killing radiation was shunted by that ship's isotropic coating, but something got through. METAPLANETARY
In contrast, the glyoxylate shunt is not complete because isocitrate lyases (icl1 and icl2) and malate synthases are missing. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles

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