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Shunting

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Shunting meaning

present participle and gerund of shunt

Example sentences (14)

After passengers disembark from these trains, they are hauled by shunting engines to the Wadi Bunder/Mazgaon yard for essential cleaning and maintenance.

Having grown up around trains – her father worked in the nearby shunting yard and one of her brothers was a stoker – Rose even now enjoys playing train simulator video games.

He was shunting trucks of timber when the truck, on which he was riding, overturned down a sharp gradient and he was pinned under the load.

Mr Popoola had accidentally accelerated into the back of a stationary bus, shunting it forward into Ms Burr who died from multiple injuries.

Shunting of coal at Union Mills.

Shunting is used when simpler measures such as aspiration or drugs have failed to resolve the problem.

The scrum was particularly targeted, either to milk penalties by forcing the collapse of the front or by shunting the less technically adept Fijians off the ball.

Mahathir, who has been a titan of Malaysian politics for longer than Najib has been alive, helped install the prodigal son of the nation’s second prime minister, shunting aside a previous inheritor, “sleepy” Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi, in the process.

Since his ascendance to power, Mnangagwa has been relying more on the military — shunting aside the police and the CIO.

As ambient air becomes hotter, additional evaporation can take place lower in the trachea making its way to the posterior sacs, shunting the lung surface.

In 1971, good results were reported with lumboperitoneal shunting.

LP shunting provides long-term relief in about half the cases; others require revision of the shunt, often on more than one occasion—usually due to shunt obstruction.

Since then, shunting is recommended predominantly, with occasional exceptions.

Six OS/2 local site computers were distributed along the railway between Stratford and Westminster, the shunting tower at Stratford depot, and several formed the central equipment located at Neasden.