Divert vs. Shunt

Divertverb

(transitive) To turn aside from a course.

Divertverb

(transitive) To distract.

Divertverb

(transitive) To entertain or amuse (by diverting the attention)

Divertverb

To turn aside; to digress.

Divertverb

To turn aside; to turn off from any course or intended application; to deflect; as, to divert a river from its channel; to divert commerce from its usual course.

Divertverb

To turn away from any occupation, business, or study; to cause to have lively and agreeable sensations; to amuse; to entertain; as, children are diverted with sports; men are diverted with works of wit and humor.

Divertverb

To turn aside; to digress.

Divertverb

turn aside; turn away from

Divertverb

send on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one

Divertverb

occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion;

Divertverb

withdraw (money) and move into a different location, often secretly and with dishonest intentions

Divertverb

cause (someone or something) to change course or turn from one direction to another

Divertverb

(of a vehicle or person) change course

Divertverb

reallocate (money or resources) to a different purpose

Divertverb

distract (someone) from something

Divertverb

draw the attention of (someone) away from tedious or serious concerns; entertain or amuse

Shuntverb

(transitive) To cause to move (suddenly), as by pushing or shoving; to give a (sudden) start to.

Shuntverb

(transitive) To divert to a less important place, position, or state.

Shuntverb

(transitive) To provide with a shunt.

Shuntverb

To move data in memory to a physical disk.

Shuntverb

To divert electric current by providing an alternative path.

Shuntverb

To move a train from one track to another, or to move carriages, etc. from one train to another.

Shuntverb

To have a minor collision, especially in a motor car.

Shuntverb

To divert the flow of a body fluid.

Shuntverb

To turn aside or away; to divert.

Shuntnoun

An act of moving (suddenly), as due to a push or shove.

Shuntnoun

(electricity) A connection used as an alternative path between parts of an electrical circuit.

Shuntnoun

(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.

Shuntnoun

An abnormal passage between body channels.

Shuntnoun

(surgery) A passage between body channels constructed surgically as a bypass; a tube inserted into the body to create such a passage.

Shuntnoun

(rail transport) A switch on a railway used to move a train from one track to another.

Shuntnoun

A minor collision between vehicles.

Shuntverb

To shun; to move from.

Shuntverb

To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove.

Shuntverb

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.

Shuntverb

To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer.

Shuntverb

To go aside; to turn off.

Shuntnoun

A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free.

Shuntnoun

A conducting circuit joining two points in a conductor, or the terminals of a galvanometer or dynamo, so as to form a parallel or derived circuit through which a portion of the current may pass, for the purpose of regulating the amount passing in the main circuit.

Shuntnoun

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.

Shuntnoun

a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another;

Shuntnoun

a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current

Shuntnoun

implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for draining fluids within the body

Shuntverb

transfer to another track, of trains

Shuntverb

provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt