shunts
Definitions
Noun
- A passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another
- A conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current
- Implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for draining fluids within the body
Verb
- Transfer to another track, of trains
- Provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt
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| 1 | shorts | 1 | 29 |
| 2 | shifts | 1 | 17 |
| 3 | schultz | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | shafts | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | auschwitz | 2 | 1 |
| 6 | schulz | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | shantz | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | schantz | 1 | 0 |
| 9 | schartz | 1 | 0 |
| 10 | schiltz | 1 | 0 |
| 11 | schists | 1 | 0 |
| 12 | schlitz | 1 | 0 |
| 13 | schmertz | 1 | 0 |
| 14 | schmidt's | 1 | 0 |
| 15 | schmitz | 1 | 0 |
| 16 | schmutz | 1 | 0 |
| 17 | schnitz | 1 | 0 |
| 18 | scholtes | 1 | 0 |
| 19 | scholtz | 1 | 0 |
| 20 | schultes | 1 | 0 |
| 21 | schulze | 1 | 0 |
| 22 | shiites | 2 | 0 |
| 23 | shilts | 1 | 0 |
| 24 | shontz | 1 | 0 |
| 25 | shorts' | 1 | 0 |
| 26 | shortz | 1 | 0 |
| 27 | shortz' | 1 | 0 |
| 28 | shoults | 1 | 0 |
| 29 | shoultz | 1 | 0 |
| 30 | shults | 1 | 0 |
| 31 | shultz | 1 | 0 |
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Results:
Term
Definitions: 5
Fragments: 1
Sound Alikes: 31
Spelled Like: 20
Words that Follow: 0
Words that Precede: 0
Statistically Associated: 0
Consonant Matches: 0
Freq: The frequency is a relative score of how often the word appears in standard English text.
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