shunter
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English
Etymology
Noun
shunter (plural shunters)
- (rail transport, British) A railway locomotive used for shunting; a switcher.
- 2021 June 30, David Clough, “Brush: a UK rail icon”, in RAIL, number 934, page 55:
- Concurrent to this order, Good forged a link with Irish Railways, which resulted in the latter building five shunters with Brush equipment, marking the inception of dieselisation in the country.
- (rail transport, British) A person who carries out shunting operations.
- 1960 June, “Talking of Trains: The new Margam yard”, in Trains Illustrated, page 323:
- The shunter has a lightweight portable radio transmitter by which, as he uncouples an incoming train into cuts for marshalling, he informs the Traffic Office of the number of wagons in each cut and its siding; [...].
- (finance, UK, historical) One who shunts (carries on arbitrage between London and provincial stock exchanges).
Synonyms
- (locomotive): switcher (US), shunting engine (UK)
- (train driver): hostler, switcher, yard jockey (US)
Derived terms
Translations
a railway locomotive used for shunting
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a person who carries out shunting operations
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Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
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Verb
shunter
- (electrics) to shunt
Conjugation
Conjugation of shunter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | shunter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | shuntant /ʃœ̃.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | shunté /ʃœ̃.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | shunte /ʃœ̃t/ |
shuntes /ʃœ̃t/ |
shunte /ʃœ̃t/ |
shuntons /ʃœ̃.tɔ̃/ |
shuntez /ʃœ̃.te/ |
shuntent /ʃœ̃t/ |
| imperfect | shuntais /ʃœ̃.tɛ/ |
shuntais /ʃœ̃.tɛ/ |
shuntait /ʃœ̃.tɛ/ |
shuntions /ʃœ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
shuntiez /ʃœ̃.tje/ |
shuntaient /ʃœ̃.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | shuntai /ʃœ̃.te/ |
shuntas /ʃœ̃.ta/ |
shunta /ʃœ̃.ta/ |
shuntâmes /ʃœ̃.tam/ |
shuntâtes /ʃœ̃.tat/ |
shuntèrent /ʃœ̃.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | shunterai /ʃœ̃.tʁe/ |
shunteras /ʃœ̃.tʁa/ |
shuntera /ʃœ̃.tʁa/ |
shunterons /ʃœ̃.tʁɔ̃/ |
shunterez /ʃœ̃.tʁe/ |
shunteront /ʃœ̃.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | shunterais /ʃœ̃.tʁɛ/ |
shunterais /ʃœ̃.tʁɛ/ |
shunterait /ʃœ̃.tʁɛ/ |
shunterions /ʃœ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
shunteriez /ʃœ̃.tə.ʁje/ |
shunteraient /ʃœ̃.tʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | shunte /ʃœ̃t/ |
shuntes /ʃœ̃t/ |
shunte /ʃœ̃t/ |
shuntions /ʃœ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
shuntiez /ʃœ̃.tje/ |
shuntent /ʃœ̃t/ |
| imperfect2 | shuntasse /ʃœ̃.tas/ |
shuntasses /ʃœ̃.tas/ |
shuntât /ʃœ̃.ta/ |
shuntassions /ʃœ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
shuntassiez /ʃœ̃.ta.sje/ |
shuntassent /ʃœ̃.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | shunte /ʃœ̃t/ |
— | shuntons /ʃœ̃.tɔ̃/ |
shuntez /ʃœ̃.te/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “shunter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.