shunt

Short definition from Wiktionary

Verb

1. 1
   To cause to move (suddenly), as by pushing or shoving; to give a (sudden) start to.
2. 2
   To divert to a less important place, position, or state.
3. 3
   To provide with a shunt.
4. 4
   To move data in memory to a physical disk.
5. 5
   To divert electric current by providing an alternative path.
6. 6
   To move a train from one track to another, or to move carriages, etc. from one train to another.
7. 7
   To have a minor collision, especially in a motor car.
8. 8
   To divert the flow of a body fluid.
9. 9
   To turn aside or away; to divert.
10. 10
    To carry on arbitrage between the London stock exchange and provincial stock exchanges.

Noun

1. 1
   An act of moving (suddenly), as due to a push or shove.
2. 2
   A connection used as an alternative path between parts of an electrical circuit.
3. 3
   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.
4. 4
   An abnormal passage between body channels.
5. 5
   A passage between body channels constructed surgically as a bypass; a tube inserted into the body to create such a passage.
6. 6
   A switch on a railway used to move a train from one track to another.
7. 7
   A minor collision between vehicles.