flipper vs shunt

flipper

verb
  • To lift one or both flippers out of the water and slap the surface of the water. 

noun
  • Television remote control, clicker. 

  • A type of ball bowled by a leg spin bowler, which spins backwards and skids off the pitch with a low bounce. 

  • A flat lever in a pinball machine, triggered by the player to strike the ball and keep it in play. 

  • A kind of false tooth, usually temporary. 

  • A small flat used to support a larger one. 

  • Someone who flips, in the sense of buying a house or other asset and selling it quickly for profit. 

  • Someone who flips in any other sense, for example throwing a coin. 

  • In marine mammals such as whales, a wide flat limb, adapted for swimming. 

  • A flat, wide, paddle-like rubber covering for the foot, used in swimming. 

  • A kitchen spatula. 

shunt

verb
  • To divert the flow of a body fluid. 

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

  • To move data in memory to a physical disk. 

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

  • To provide with a shunt. 

  • To divert to a less important place, position, or state. 

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

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

  • To divert electric current by providing an alternative path. 

noun
  • A switch on a railway used to move a train from one track to another. 

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

  • An abnormal passage between body channels. 

  • 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 between body channels constructed surgically as a bypass; a tube inserted into the body to create such a passage. 

  • A minor collision between vehicles. 

  • A connection used as an alternative path between parts of an electrical circuit. 

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