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Shunt vs. Transfer — What's the Difference?

Shunt vs. Transfer — What's the Difference?

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Shunt

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

Transfer

Move from one place to another
He intends to transfer the fund's assets to the Treasury
I went to sleep on the couch before transferring to my bedroom later in the night

Shunt

A railroad switch.

Transfer

Change to another place, route, or means of transport during a journey
Passengers have to transfer at Heathrow for onward international flights

Shunt

(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.
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Transfer

Make over the possession of (property, a right, or a responsibility) to another
We will transfer full planning responsibility to local authorities

Shunt

(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.

Transfer

Change (the sense of a word or phrase) by extension or metaphor
A transferred use of the Old English noun

Shunt

To turn or move aside or onto another course
Shunting traffic around an accident.

Transfer

An act of moving something or someone to another place, organization, team, etc.
A transfer of wealth to the EU's poorer nations
A patient had died after transfer from the County Hospital to St Peter's
She asked her boss for a transfer to the city

Shunt

To evade by putting aside or ignoring
Urgent problems that society can no longer shunt aside.

Transfer

A small coloured picture or design on paper, which can be transferred to another surface by being pressed or heated
T-shirts with iron-on transfers

Shunt

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

Transfer

An act of changing to another place, route, or means of transport during a journey
Bus transfers between the airport and the city centre cost about £11

Shunt

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

Transfer

To convey or cause to pass from one place, person, or thing to another.

Shunt

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

Transfer

(Law) To make over the possession or legal title of (property, for example); convey.

Shunt

To move or turn aside.

Transfer

To convey (a design, for example) from one surface to another, as by impression.

Shunt

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

Transfer

To move oneself from one location or job to another.

Shunt

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

Transfer

To withdraw from one educational institution or course of study and enroll in another.

Shunt

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

Transfer

To change from one public conveyance to another
Transferred to another bus.

Shunt

(transitive) To provide with a shunt.
To shunt a galvanometer

Transfer

Also trans·fer·al (trăns-fûrəl) The conveyance or removal of something from one place, person, or thing to another.

Shunt

To move data in memory to a physical disk.

Transfer

One who transfers or is transferred, as to a new school.

Shunt

To divert electric current by providing an alternative path.

Transfer

A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another.

Shunt

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

Transfer

A ticket entitling a passenger to change from one public conveyance to another as part of one trip.

Shunt

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

Transfer

A place where such a change is made.

Shunt

To divert the flow of a body fluid.

Transfer

Also transferal(Law) A conveyance of title or property from one person to another.

Shunt

To turn aside or away; to divert.

Transfer

(transitive) To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.
To transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion

Shunt

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

Transfer

(transitive) To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.
To transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone

Shunt

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

Transfer

To exit one mass transit vehicle and board another (typically one belonging to a different line or mode of transportation) to continue a journey.
Transfer to the Blue Line

Shunt

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

Transfer

(intransitive) To be or become transferred.

Shunt

(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.

Transfer

To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.
The title to land is transferred by deed.

Shunt

An abnormal passage between body channels.

Transfer

(uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.

Shunt

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

Transfer

(countable) An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.

Shunt

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

Transfer

An act of exiting one mass transit vehicle and boarding another (typically one belonging to a different line or mode of transportation) to continue a journey.
Free transfers can be made between the Red and Orange Lines by walking from one of the station's platforms to another; in addition, riders using a fare card also get free transfers between bus and subway at the station.

Shunt

A minor collision between vehicles.

Transfer

A paper receipt given to a rider of one bus (and historically also certain elevated or subway lines), allowing free entry onto another bus to continue a journey.

Shunt

To shun; to move from.

Transfer

(countable) A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.

Shunt

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

Transfer

A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.

Shunt

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.
For shunting your late partner on to me.

Transfer

(medicine) A pathological process by which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side of the body makes its appearance in the corresponding region upon the other side.

Shunt

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

Transfer

(genetics) The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another.

Shunt

To go aside; to turn off.

Transfer

(bridge) A conventional bid which requests partner to bid the next available suit.

Shunt

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

Transfer

(sports) A person who transfers or is transferred from one club or team to another.

Shunt

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.

Transfer

To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion.

Shunt

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.

Transfer

To make over the possession or control of; to pass; to convey, as a right, from one person to another; to give; as, the title to land is transferred by deed.

Shunt

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

Transfer

To remove from one substance or surface to another; as, to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone.

Shunt

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

Transfer

The act of transferring, or the state of being transferred; the removal or conveyance of a thing from one place or person to another.

Shunt

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

Transfer

The conveyance of right, title, or property, either real or personal, from one person to another, whether by sale, by gift, or otherwise.
I shall here only consider it as a transfer of property.

Shunt

Transfer to another track, of trains

Transfer

That which is transferred.

Shunt

Provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt

Transfer

A picture, or the like, removed from one body or ground to another, as from wood to canvas, or from one piece of canvas to another.

Transfer

A pathological process by virtue of which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side of the body makes its appearance in the corresponding region upon the other side.

Transfer

A drawing or writing printed off from one surface on another, as in ceramics and in many decorative arts.

Transfer

A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.

Transfer

The act of transporting something from one location to another

Transfer

Someone who transfers or is transferred from one position to another;
The best student was a transfer from LSU

Transfer

The act of transfering something from one form to another;
The transfer of the music from record to tape suppressed much of the background noise

Transfer

A ticket that allows a passenger to change conveyances

Transfer

Application of a skill learned in one situation to a different but similar situation

Transfer

Transferring ownership

Transfer

Move around;
Transfer the packet from his trouser pockets to a pocket in his jacket

Transfer

Transfer somebody to a different position or location of work

Transfer

Move from one place to another;
Transfer the data
Transmit the news
Transfer the patient to another hospital

Transfer

Lift and reset in another soil or situation;
Transplant the young rice plants

Transfer

Cause to change ownership;
I transferred my stock holdings to my children

Transfer

Change from one vehicle or transportation line to another;
She changed in Chicago on her way to the East coast

Transfer

Send from one person or place to another;
Transmit a message

Transfer

Shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes;
He removed his children to the countryside
Remove the troops to the forest surrounding the city
Remove a case to another court

Transfer

Transfer from one place or period to another;
The ancient Greek story was transplanted into Modern America

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