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noun
- A switch on a railway
- A connection used as an alternative path between parts of an electric circuit
- A passage between body channels constructed surgically as a bypass
- (informal) A minor collision
verb - To turn away or aside
- To move a train from one track to another, or to move carriages etc from one train to another
- To divert electric current by providing an alternative path
- To divert the flow of a body fluid using surgery
- (informal) To have a minor collision, especially in a motor car
Translations: - German: rangieren
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(trans-top, to divert electric current)
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(trans-top, to divert the flow of a body fluid)
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(trans-top, to have a minor collision)
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