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Shuttle Definition

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Etymology

From Old English scytel (“dart, arrow”), from Proto-Germanic *skutilaz (compare Old Norse skutill (“harpoon”)), from *skut- (“project”) (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.

Noun

shuttle (plural shuttles)

  1. The part of a loom that carries the woof back and forth between the warp threads
  2. A transport service (such as a bus or train) that goes back and forth between two places.
  3. 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).

Verb

shuttle (third-person singular simple present shuttles, present participle shuttling, simple past and past participle shuttled)

  1. (intransitive) To go back and forth between two places.
  2. (transitive) To transport by shuttle or by means of a shuttle service.

Translations

to go back and forth
to transport by shuttle

Dutch

Noun

shuttle m. (plural shuttles, diminutive shuttletje)

  1. a space shuttle
  2. a shuttlecock

Italian

Etymology

English

Noun

shuttle m. inv.

  1. space shuttle

 

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