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shunt(
shuhnt
)A transitive verb is a verb that requires a direct object (e.g., I bought a book.).
1. (railways)
a. cambiar de vía
Once they'd uncoupled them, they shunted the remaining three cars into a siding.Una vez desacoplados, cambiaron los tres vagones que quedaban a una vía muerta.
This photo shows a locomotive shunting freight cars.Esta foto muestra una locomotora cambiando vagones de carga de vía.
2. (to move)
a. no direct translation
This refers to an idiomatic word or phrase for which there is no word-for-word translation.
Employees who didn't toe the line found themselves shunted into less responsible jobs.Los empleados que no acataron las normas se vieron relegados a puestos de menor responsabilidad.
When he couldn't deal with them, he shunted problems on to another department.Cuando no podía resolver un problema, lo pasaba a otro departamento.
A noun is a word referring to a person, animal, place, thing, feeling, or idea (e.g., man, dog, house).
3. (railways)
a. el empujón (M)
(m) means that a noun is masculine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
A heavy shunt sent the line of cars bumping into each other.Un fuerte empujón hizo que la hilera de vagones chocaran unos contra otros.
4. (medicine)
5. (colloquial) (crash)
A word or phrase that is commonly used in conversational speech (e.g., skinny, grandma).
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