What's the difference between shove and shunt?

Shove


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To drive along by the direct and continuous application of strength; to push; especially, to push (a body) so as to make it move along the surface of another body; as, to shove a boat on the water; to shove a table across the floor.
  • (v. t.) To push along, aside, or away, in a careless or rude manner; to jostle.
  • (v. i.) To push or drive forward; to move onward by pushing or jostling.
  • (v. i.) To move off or along by an act pushing, as with an oar a pole used by one in a boat; sometimes with off.
  • (n.) The act of shoving; a forcible push.
  • () p. p. of Shove.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She said the rise in fees was not part of the effort to tackle the deficit, but was instead about Clegg "going along with Tory plans to shove the cost of higher education on to students and their families".
  • (2) Republican House majority leader Eric Cantor claimed that Obama had shoved back the table and walked out of White House talks, after Cantor refused to discuss the president's proposal to raise taxes on wealthier Americans.
  • (3) Jeremain Lens, signed from Dynamo Kyiv, was fortunate to escape dismissal for a second yellow card, while Yann M’Vila, on loan from Rubin Kazan, followed his headbutt in the reserves by raising arms to Graham Dorrans during an unpunished, but unwise, bout of push ’n’ shove.
  • (4) But the last people you'd rely on are those who dug the ditch and shoved you in – particularly when they're still building and still shoving.
  • (5) Read more “Shoving an offer in front of our noses at the eleventh hour says a lot about how the secretary of state has handled this over the past three months,“ Dr Johann Malawana, the chair of the BMA’s junior doctors, said.
  • (6) Podolski dispossesses Lahm in the box, with the aid of a subtle shove.
  • (7) As Gabrielle is at pains to point out, there was no unhappy childhood to avenge; no traumas to shove into the creative crucible.
  • (8) During the trial the officer accepted he was wrong in retrospect to have hit Tomlinson on the back of the leg and shoved him to the pavement as the 47-year-old walked slowly away from police lines on the evening of 1 April 2009, but told an often emotional trial that he believed at the time the action had been necessary.
  • (9) Check out Hamleys' predictions for this year's top Christmas toys , and you'll see a list dominated by pricey novelties: a breakdancing Mickey Mouse, a Barbie with an alarming fragile-looking articulated pony, a baby tablet that shoves "educational games" under your baby's nose.
  • (10) Updated at 3.23am BST 2.38am BST Another bout of Mitt Romney trying to ride over the moderator and just keep talking, and nearly pulls it off but Candy Crowley backs him down, but only after some verbal pushing and shoving.
  • (11) Welbeck climbs, gives Martin a gentle shove in the small of his back to ease the defender out of his road, and plants a header into the left-hand side of the goal.
  • (12) "A guy comes near my seat, shoves a badge that had some sort of a shield on it, yanks the Google Glass off my face and says 'Follow me outside immediately'," said the man, who was taken into a room for interrogation.
  • (13) "People were shoving each other, panicking, but the police kept attacking us."
  • (14) Tomlinson, 47, died shortly after being shoved to the ground by a riot policeman later identified as Harwood.
  • (15) I took my bandana off and I put it in a knot and shoved it in his bullet hole in his back.” Junior had been shot twice.
  • (16) He did add a shove on a Colorado player in the aftermath, but the straight red was for the handling.
  • (17) The value of Doppler study and of arteriography is demonstrated in the present case of a woman with a five month history of pain and paraesthesias of the arm and hand, who shoved sudden occlusion of left humeral artery.
  • (18) Many died after spears were shoved into their vaginas.
  • (19) Violence-related morbidity data for adolescents from one community revealed that 50% of the male respondents experienced at least one pushing or shoving fight per year, and that by age 16 25% had already been threatened by a weapon.
  • (20) Most of us are not foolish enough to suppose that our electricity supplier specially packages up "green energy" for us, and shoves it down the wires.

Shunt


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To shun; to move from.
  • (v. t.) To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer.
  • (v. i.) To go aside; to turn off.
  • (v. t.) A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) 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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One patient with a large fistula angiographically had no oximetric evidence of shunt at cardiac catheterization.
  • (2) However, survival was closely related to the severity of the illness at the time of randomization and was not altered by shunting.
  • (3) Results showed significantly higher cardiac output in infants with grade III shunting than in infants with grade 0 and grade I shunting.
  • (4) Direct limiting effects of hypothermia on tissue O2 delivery and muscle oxidative metabolism as well as vasoconstriction and arteriovenous shunting associated with CPB procedures are likely to be involved in the above mentioned alterations of cell metabolism.
  • (5) Eighty interposition mesocaval shunts, using a knitted Dacron large diameter prosthesis, have been performed during the past five and one-half years.
  • (6) An infant with a Sturge-Weber variant syndrome developed progressive megalencephaly and eventual hydrocephalus, which required shunting.
  • (7) The use of 100% oxygen to calculate intrapulmonary shunting in patients on PEEP is misleading in both physiological and methodological terms.
  • (8) Airway closure (CV), functional residual capacity (FRC) and the distribution of inspired gas (nitrogen washout delay percentage, NWOD %) and arterial oxygen tension (PaO2) was measured by standard electrodes in eight extremely obese patients before and after weight loss (mean weights 142 and 94 kg, respectively) following intestinal shunt operation.
  • (9) Quantitative autoradiography was used to assess the densities of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABAA) receptors in the brains of rats with a portacaval end-to-side shunt (PCA).
  • (10) We currently recommend a standard portacaval shunt or a devascularisation and transection procedure for the rare failures of sclerotherapy.
  • (11) The other 7 cysts required the subsequent placement of a cystoperitoneal shunt.
  • (12) It is suggested that the benefit of anticoagulant therapy is in transferring shunt problems from the distal to the proximal catheter, obstruction of which is less dangerous and more easily treated.
  • (13) On angiography portal-hepatic venous shunt was observed in one case.
  • (14) The technique described involves placement of an intraluminal shunt and resection of the involved caval wall with reconstruction using autologous pericardium.
  • (15) Shunt-related morbidity occurred in all patients and consisted of mechanical complications in four patients and bacteremia in one patient.
  • (16) Mycobacterium fortuitum is a rare cause of central nervous system infection; however, shunt infection caused by this organism has not been reported.
  • (17) Thus, these data establish a range of normal for the indocyanine green technique of detecting and measuring intracardiac left-to-right shunting.
  • (18) This was documented by angiography and during surgery when an aortic-pulmonary shunt was done.
  • (19) Two new cases of megaduodenum by aortomesenteric shunt in young adults are presented.
  • (20) In the other cases cavernosogram revealed normal venous return and thrombosis of the shunt.