prang vs shunt

prang

verb
  • To damage (the vehicle one is driving) in an accident; to have a minor collision with (another motor vehicle). 

  • To crash; to have an accident while controlling a vehicle. 

noun
  • A type of tower or spire featured in some Buddhist temples of Cambodia and Thailand. 

  • An accident involving a motor vehicle, typically minor and without casualties. 

  • Crack cocaine. 

shunt

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

  • To move data in memory to a physical disk. 

  • To divert the flow of a body fluid. 

  • 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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