n.
1.a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another
2.a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current
3.implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber shunt v.
1.transfer to another track, of trains
2.provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt
Idiom of the Day
be a new one on (someone)
to be something that one has not heard before and something that is difficult to believe
It was a new one on me when my friend said that he was studying Russian.