"mis-shunt" meaning in English

See mis-shunt in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: mis-shunts [plural]
Etymology: From mis- + shunt. Etymology templates: {{af|en|mis-|shunt}} mis- + shunt Head templates: {{en-noun|head=mis-shunt}} mis-shunt (plural mis-shunts)
  1. (rail transport, British) An incorrectly made shunting operation, possibly causing a mishap. Tags: British Categories (topical): Rail transportation

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for mis-shunt meaning in English (1.6kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mis-",
        "3": "shunt"
      },
      "expansion": "mis- + shunt",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From mis- + shunt.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mis-shunts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "mis-shunt"
      },
      "expansion": "mis-shunt (plural mis-shunts)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with mis-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Rail transportation",
          "orig": "en:Rail transportation",
          "parents": [
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1962 February, G. Richard Parkes, “Automatic couplers in Britain and Europe”, in Modern Railways, page 131",
          "text": "Consequently, the coupler must be designed so that no undue damage is caused should a mis-shunt take place.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An incorrectly made shunting operation, possibly causing a mishap."
      ],
      "id": "en-mis-shunt-en-noun-WkySlV3Z",
      "links": [
        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "shunting",
          "shunting"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rail transport, British) An incorrectly made shunting operation, possibly causing a mishap."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mis-shunt"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mis-",
        "3": "shunt"
      },
      "expansion": "mis- + shunt",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From mis- + shunt.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mis-shunts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "mis-shunt"
      },
      "expansion": "mis-shunt (plural mis-shunts)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms prefixed with mis-",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Rail transportation"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1962 February, G. Richard Parkes, “Automatic couplers in Britain and Europe”, in Modern Railways, page 131",
          "text": "Consequently, the coupler must be designed so that no undue damage is caused should a mis-shunt take place.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An incorrectly made shunting operation, possibly causing a mishap."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "shunting",
          "shunting"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rail transport, British) An incorrectly made shunting operation, possibly causing a mishap."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mis-shunt"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.