Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Prov. E., to move from, to put off, fr. OE. shunten, schunten, schounten,; cf. D. schuinte, a slant, slope, Icel. skunda, to hasten. Cf. Shun
In literature:
There are in everyone potential forms of activity that actually are shunted out from use.
"How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions" by S. S. Curry
They had been locked within a force shell and shunted through millions of miles of space.
"Empire" by Clifford Donald Simak
This shunt is shown in diagram in fig.
"Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man" by Francis Gano Benedict
Have the carriage shunted, and keep close guard over it until Mr. Narkom and I arrive.
"Cleek, the Master Detective" by Thomas W. Hanshew
I'll show the dreadful little wretch that she can't shunt her child off on me for support.
"What's-His-Name" by George Barr McCutcheon
If he were he would have absolutely at the first idea shunted off the evil proposal which I happened to make to you.
"A Bunch of Cherries" by L. T. Meade
Don't they often shunt you on to the First or Second West Indians?
"Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875" by Various
He was completely shunted off his original track of thought and anticipation.
"The Valley of Silent Men" by James Oliver Curwood
I got out when night came and slipped under an empty fruit car which was being shunted on the siding.
"The Spoilers of the Valley" by Robert Watson
Train shunted into siding.
"The Last Voyage" by Lady (Annie Allnutt) Brassey
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In poetry:
In it there is no Heart--no Soul--
No illimitable Goal--
Only wild happenings, by wont
Made into laws no might can shunt
From the deep grooves in which they hunt.
"The Athiest" by Cale Young Rice
Nottman himself is a devil to drive,
But cool and steady, and ever alive
To whatever danger is looming in front,
When a train has run hard to gain time for a shunt.
"Nottman" by Alexander Anderson
When, just as I lifted up my head
From the furnace-door, there right in front
(I had miss'd the signal standing red),
Was a mineral train that had stopp'd to shunt.
"Rid of His Engine" by Alexander Anderson
We had just two shunts; the last for the mail—
She was late, for already upon the rail
The snow lay thick, but she thunder'd past
Like a great, red, smoky ghost in the blast.
"Jim Dalley" by Alexander Anderson
Long since, I lived in lordly porches fronting
With thronged, enormous pillars to the tide,
Where day as in basaltic caverns died
With seaward gleams along the columns shunting.
"Anterior Life (La Vie Anterieure)" by Clark Ashton Smith
“Next mom rose Johnnie’s mates to pack
And make an early shunt,
But all they could get out of Jack
Was ‘All right,’ or a grunt,
By pourin’ water down his back
And—when he turned—his front.
"The Sleeping Beauty" by Henry Lawson
In news:
A 27-year-old woman presented with an ostium secundum atrial septal defect (left-to-right shunt 60.7.
Bruno Junqueira tweeted this photo of the shunted Nissan DeltaWing .
As a result, the researchers used a balanced topology with two Schottky shunt-barrier diodes with grounded cathodes, which can increase the output power used for the CMOS implementation.
Under the just-signed AB 1964, California employers face new restrictions against shunting Sikh and Muslim workers out of public view for wearing turbans, beards and hijabs, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Under AB 1964 signed by Gov Brown, California employers face new restrictions against shunting Sikh and Muslim workers out of public view for wearing turbans, beards and hijabs.
Woman with failing shunt cheers on Cardinals 2 weeks after major surgery .
A booster battery with a 12-volt port and a memory saver connected to the OBD II connector will preserve memory and security settings while you connect the shunt.
Radioisotopes injected into the shunt reservoir should normally distribute freely through the abdomen.
Fifty years ago she would have been labelled as "mentally retarded " and my husband and I would have been told to shunt her off to an institution.
Shunted to the back of tomorrow's St Patrick 's Day Parade, New York City firefighters aren't the only ones who are angry with parade chair John Dunleavy.
Family hopeful Bryan Stow can receive brain shunt .
Centennial's Zach Lederer plays football despite a brain tumor and a ventricular shunt in his skull.
Just prior to Zander 's second birthday, doctors discovered his shunt had malfunctioned.
The treatment uses a shunt to drain fluid from the brain.
A shunt is inserted in the head and a tube leads to the abdomen.
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In science:
This shunting of various observer’s predictability (and perhaps only this shunting ) is the subtle manner in which the quantum world is sensitive to our experimental interventions.
Information Tradeoff Relations for Finite-Strength Quantum Measurements
Neglecting the ≪local ≫ charging energy and normal current (ie between a given site and the ground) yields the so-called ≪ Resistively and capacitively shunted junction (RC S J ) model ≫.
Dynamics of two-dimensional Josephson junction arrays
Indeed, already a single, capacitively and resistively shunted junction with an applied voltage or current corresponds to a damped driven pendulum, which is known to show very rich structures in its dynamic phase diagram.
Dynamics of two-dimensional Josephson junction arrays
The large shunt capacitance Csh transforms at finite frequencies the current bias into the voltage bias.
Tunnel junction as a noise probe
The Josephson tunnel junction with capacitance CJ is voltage-biased via the shunt resistor R.
Tunnel junction as a noise probe
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