Word Meanings - SHUNTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A person employed to shunt cars from one track to another.

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• PERSONNEL
  The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.
• PERSONIFICATION
  A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying;
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• TRACKLAYER
  Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n.
• PERSONIZE
  To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson.
• TRACKWALKER
  A person employed to walk over and inspect a section of tracks.
• PERSONATE
  To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton.
• PERSONATOR
  One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson.
• SHUNT WINDING
  A winding so arranged as to divide the armature current and lead a portion of it around the field-magnet coils; -- opposed to series winding. --Shunt"-wound` , a.
• EMPLOYER
  One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen.
• TRACKMAN
  One employed on work on the track; specif., a trackwalker.
• PERSONAL
  Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun. Personal action , a suit or action by which a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it; or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury to his person or property,
• PERSONIFY
  1. To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being. The poets take the liberty of personifying inanimate things. Chesterfield. 2. To be the embodiment or personification of; to impersonate; as, he personifies the law.
• PERSONIFIER
  One who personifies.
• PERSONA
  See 8
• TRACK-ROAD
  A towing path.
• PERSONABLE
  1. Having a well-formed body, or person; graceful; comely; of good appearance; presentable; as, a personable man or woman. Wise, warlike, personable, courteous, and kind. Spenser. The king, . . . so visited with sickness, was not personable. E.
• PERSONALLY
  1. In a personal manner; by bodily presence; in person; not by representative or substitute; as, to deliver a letter personally. He, being cited, personally came not. Grafton. 2. With respect to an individual; as regards the person; individually;
• ANOTHER
  1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak. 2. Not the same; different. He winks,
• SHUNT
  To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer. (more info) schounten; cf. D. schuinte a slant, slope, Icel. skunda to hasten. 1. To shun; to move from. 2. To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove. Ash. 3. To turn off
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• UNIPERSONAL
  Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God.
• UNEMPLOYED
  1. Nor employed in manual or other labor; having no regular work. 2. Not invested or used; as, unemployed capital.
• UNIPERSONALIST
  One who believes that the Deity is unipersonal.
• TRIPERSONALITY
  The state of existing as three persons in one Godhead; trinity.
• IMPERSONATION; IMPERSONIFICATION
  The act of impersonating; personification; investment with personality; representation in a personal form.
• PREEMPLOY
  To employ beforehand. "Preëmployed by him." Shak.
• TRICKTRACK
  An old game resembling backgammon.
• TRIPERSONAL
  Consisting of three persons. Milton.
• MONOPERSONAL
  Having but one person, or form of existence.
• DISEMPLOYMENT
  The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment. This glut of leisure and disemployment. Jer. Taylor.