Divert vs. Shunt — What's the Difference?

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

The act or process of turning aside or moving to an alternate course.

Distract (someone) from something

A railroad switch.

To turn aside from a course or direction

(Electricity) A low-resistance connection between two points in an electric circuit that forms an alternative path for a portion of the current. Also called bypass.

To distract

(Medicine) A passage between two natural body channels, such as blood vessels, especially one created surgically to divert or permit flow from one pathway or region to another; a bypass.

To entertain by distracting the attention from worrisome thoughts or cares; amuse.

To turn or move aside or onto another course

To turn aside.

To evade by putting aside or ignoring

(transitive) To turn aside from a course.

To switch (a train or car) from one track to another.

(transitive) To distract.

(Electricity) To provide or divert (current) by means of a shunt.

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

(Medicine) To divert or permit flow of (a body fluid) from one pathway or region to another by surgical means.

To turn aside; to digress.

To move or turn aside.

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.

(Electricity) To become diverted by means of a shunt. Used of a circuit.

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.

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

To turn aside; to digress.

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

Turn aside; turn away from

(transitive) To provide with a shunt.

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

To move data in memory to a physical disk.

Occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion;

To divert electric current by providing an alternative path.

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

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

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

To divert the flow of a body fluid.

To turn aside or away; to divert.

To carry on arbitrage between the London stock exchange and provincial stock exchanges.

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

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

(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.

An abnormal passage between body channels.

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

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

A minor collision between vehicles.

To shun; to move from.

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

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.

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

To go aside; to turn off.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Transfer to another track, of trains

Provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt