Definitions for shuttleˈʃʌt l

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

shut•tleˈʃʌt l(n.; v.)-tled, -tling.

  1. (n.)a device in a loom for passing or shooting the filling thread through the shed from one side of the web to the other, usu. consisting of a boat-shaped piece of wood containing a bobbin on which the filling is wound.

  2. the sliding container that carries the lower thread in a sewing machine.

  3. a public conveyance, as a train, airplane, or bus, that travels back and forth at regular intervals over a route.

    Category: Transportation

  4. Ref: shuttlecock (def. 1). 1

  5. (often cap.)

    Category: Common Vocabulary, Aerospace

    Ref: space shuttle.

  6. (v.t.)to cause to move to and fro by or as if by a shuttle.

  7. (v.i.)to move to and fro.

Origin of shuttle:

bef. 900; ME shotil, OE scytel dart, arrow, c. ON skutill harpoon; akin to shut , shoot1

Princeton's WordNet

  1. shuttlecock, bird, birdie, shuttle(noun)

    badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers

  2. shuttle(noun)

    public transport that consists of a bus or train or airplane that plies back and forth between two points

  3. shuttle(verb)

    bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads

  4. shuttle(verb)

    travel back and forth between two points

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

  1. shuttle(noun)ˈʃʌt l

    a bus, train, etc. that travels short distances

    a shuttle taking people from the parking lot to the airport terminal

Wiktionary

  1. shuttle(Noun)

    The part of a loom that carries the woof back and forth between the warp threads

  2. shuttle(Noun)

    A transport service (such as a bus or train) that goes back and forth between two places.

  3. shuttle(Noun)

    Any other item that moves repeatedly back and forth between two positions, possibly transporting something else with it between those points (such as, in chemistry, a molecular shuttle).

  4. shuttle(Verb)

    To go back and forth between two places.

  5. shuttle(Verb)

    To transport by shuttle or by means of a shuttle service.

  6. Origin: From scytel, from skutilaz (compare Old Norse skutill), from skut- (see shoot). Name for loom weaving instrument, recorded from 1338, is from a sense of being "shot" across the threads. The back-and-forth imagery inspired the extension to "passenger trains" in 1895, aircraft in 1942, and spacecraft in 1969, as well as older terms such as shuttlecock.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Shuttle(noun)

    an instrument used in weaving for passing or shooting the thread of the woof from one side of the cloth to the other between the threads of the warp

  2. Shuttle(noun)

    the sliding thread holder in a sewing machine, which carries the lower thread through a loop of the upper thread, to make a lock stitch

  3. Shuttle(noun)

    a shutter, as for a channel for molten metal

  4. Shuttle(verb)

    to move backwards and forwards, like a shuttle


Translations for shuttle

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

shuttle(noun)

in weaving, a piece of equipment for carrying the thread backwards and forwards across the other threads.

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