Shunted

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shunt \Shunt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shunted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Shunting}.] [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}.]
     1. To shun; to move from. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
        [1913 Webster]


  
     2. To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to
        shove. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Ash.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. To turn off to one side; especially, to turn off, as a
        grain or a car upon a side track; to switch off; to shift.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              For shunting your late partner on to me. --T.
                                                    Hughes.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     4. (Elec.) To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a
        galvanometer.
        [1913 Webster]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  29 Moby Thesaurus words for "shunted":
     abandoned, deserted, disregarded, half-done, ignored, laid aside,
     left undone, missed, neglected, omitted, overlooked, passed by,
     passed over, passed up, pigeonholed, put aside, sidelined,
     sidetracked, slighted, unasked, unattended to, uncared-for,
     unchaperoned, unconsidered, undone, unregarded, unsolicited,
     untended, unwatched