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  • English Word Shunless Definition Not to be shunned; inevitable; unavoidable.
  • English Word Shunned Definition of Shun
  • English Word Shunning Definition of Shun
  • English Word Shunt Definition To shun; to move from.
  • English Word Shunt Definition To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove.
  • English Word Shunt Definition 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.
  • English Word Shunt Definition To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer.
  • English Word Shunt Definition To go aside; to turn off.
  • English Word Shunt Definition A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free.
  • English Word Shunt Definition 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.
  • English Word Shunt Definition 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.
  • English Word Shunted Definition of Shunt
  • English Word Shunter Definition A person employed to shunt cars from one track to another.
  • English Word Shunting Definition of Shunt
  • English Word Shut Definition of Shut
  • English Word Shut Definition To close so as to hinder ingress or egress; as, to shut a door or a gate; to shut one's eyes or mouth.
  • English Word Shut Definition To forbid entrance into; to prohibit; to bar; as, to shut the ports of a country by a blockade.
  • English Word Shut Definition To preclude; to exclude; to bar out.
  • English Word Shut Definition To fold together; to close over, as the fingers; to close by bringing the parts together; as, to shut the hand; to shut a book.
  • English Word Shut Definition To close itself; to become closed; as, the door shuts; it shuts hard.
  • English Word Shut Definition Closed or fastened; as, a shut door.
  • English Word Shut Definition Rid; clear; free; as, to get shut of a person.
  • English Word Shut Definition Formed by complete closure of the mouth passage, and with the nose passage remaining closed; stopped, as are the mute consonants, p, t, k, b, d, and hard g.
  • English Word Shut Definition Cut off sharply and abruptly by a following consonant in the same syllable, as the English short vowels, /, /, /, /, /, always are.
  • English Word Shut Definition The act or time of shutting; close; as, the shut of a door.
  • English Word Shut Definition A door or cover; a shutter.
  • English Word Shut Definition The line or place where two pieces of metal are united by welding.
  • English Word Shute Definition Same as Chute, or Shoot.
  • English Word Shutter Definition One who shuts or closes.
  • English Word Shutter Definition A movable cover or screen for a window, designed to shut out the light, to obstruct the view, or to be of some strength as a defense; a blind.