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

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