Sample sentences for the GRE study word shunt

1. shunt -- (transfer to another track, of trains)
2. shunt -- (provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt)

1. shunt -- (a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another; "an arteriovenus shunt")
2. shunt, electrical shunt, bypass -- (a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current)
3. shunt -- (implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for draining fluids within the body)