shuttle en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈʃʌtəl/ (US)
- (US) audio
- [ˈʃʌɾəɫ] (US)
Etymology
From a merger of two words: * Middle English shutel, shotel, schetel, schettell, schyttyl, scutel (“bar; bolt”), from Old English sċyttel, sċutel (“bar; bolt”), equivalent to shut + -le * Middle English shutel, schetil, shotil, shetel, schootyll, shutyll, schytle, scytyl (“missile; projectile; spear”), from Old English sċytel, sċutel (“dart, arrow”), from Proto-Germanic *skutilaz. The name for a 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.
Meanings
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A tool used to carry the woof back and forth between the warp threads on a loom.
My dayes are ſwifter then a weauers ſhuttle, and are ſpent without hope.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 7:6:Like shuttles through the loom, so swiftly glide My feather'd hours, and all my hopes deride!.
1638, George Sandys, A Paraphrase upon Job:By placing the sword edgewise, the weaver keeps the countershed open, in order to shoot through the shuttle.
2013 November 11, Claus-Dieter Brauns, “Food and Clothing”, in Mru: Hill People on the Border of Bangladesh, Basel: Birkhäuser, page 131:
- 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.
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A transport service (such as a bus or train) that goes back and forth between two or more places.
And until December 2010 the northern stretch of the 'Extension' featured a charming side-show: the Chesham Shuttle. [...] But the people of Chesham moaned about the shuttle: the waiting room at Chalfont & Latimer was too hot, or too cold; there were leaves on the line. [...] On 12 Dec 2010 the shuttle ceased operations and Metropolitan trains began to terminate at both Amersham and Chesham.
2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, pages 76, 77:The shuttle bus runs to the airport on a half-hourly basis from the central station.
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Such a transport vehicle; a shuttle bus; a space shuttle.
You're saying we take the parking shuttles, reinforce them with aluminum siding and then head to the gun store where our friend Andy plays some cowboy-movie, jump-on-the-wagon bullshit.
2004, Dawn of the Dead, 1:14:20:
- 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).
- A shuttlecock.
- A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| shuttles | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
space shuttle · shuttlebay · shuttle diplomacy · Space Shuttle · shuttleless · shuttle race · shuttlelike · weavers' shuttle · shuttle vector · shuttle trade · multishuttle · shuttle run · shuttle conveyor · shuttlecraft · shuttleport · shuttlecock · shuttlewise · shuttlebus · nanoshuttle · shuttle bus · shuttle driver · shuttle box
Descendants
Translations (136)
lo ສວຍ (weaving tool) · es bus de cortesía (transport service) · ro navetă (transport service) · rm bartgina (weaving tool) · ca llançadora (weaving tool) · my လွန်းပြန် (transport service) · bn শাটল (transport service) · ky кайык (weaving tool) · br bulzun (weaving tool) · rm navetta (weaving tool) · cy gwennol (transport service) · tsg ulakan (weaving tool) · nl schuitje (weaving tool) · fr navette (the sliding thread holder in a sewing machine) · sv skytteltrafik (transport service) · es lanzadera (weaving tool) · be чо́ўнік (transport service) · sv skyttel (weaving tool) · lo ກ້ານສວຍ (weaving tool) · be чо́ўнік (weaving tool) · de Schützen (the sliding thread holder in a sewing machine) · ka ნავი (weaving tool) · ru шаттл (transport service) · kmr mekûk (weaving tool) · hu vetélő (weaving tool) · kk қайық (weaving tool) · sh чу́нак (weaving tool) · tg моку (weaving tool) · ru челно́к (transport service) · it navetta (transport service) · sv skyttelbuss (transport service) · as মাকো (weaving tool) · fi sukkula (transport service) · xcl կկոց (weaving tool) · br botez (the sliding thread holder in a sewing machine) · gl lanzadeira (weaving tool) · az məkik (weaving tool) · io naveto (transport service) · eo navedo (the sliding thread holder in a sewing machine) · kmr mekîk (weaving tool) · nl schietspoel (weaving tool) · lt šaudyklė (weaving tool) · fa-ira مَکوک (weaving tool) · lo ກະສວຽ (weaving tool) · fr navette (weaving tool) · is skutla (transport service) · nl pendelbus (transport service) · de Weberschiffchen (weaving tool) · be чаўно́к (weaving tool) · pt lançadeira (weaving tool) · ps ماکو (weaving tool) · is skytta (weaving tool) · ota مكیك (weaving tool) · ru челно́к (the sliding thread holder in a sewing machine) · rm tschifla (weaving tool) · de Webschützen (the sliding thread holder in a sewing machine) · ar مَكُّوك (weaving tool) · eo navedo (weaving tool) · cmn 穿梭班機 /穿梭班机 (transport service) · cmn 梭子 (weaving tool) · be шатл (transport service) · ur شَٹَل (transport service) · fr navette (transport service) · fi sukkula (weaving tool) · cy gwennol (weaving tool) · es autobús enlazador (transport service) · tr mekik (weaving tool) · da skyttel (weaving tool) · cs člunek (weaving tool) · fa-ira ماکو (weaving tool) · th กระสวย (weaving tool) · lo ສວຽ (weaving tool) · pt traslado (transport service) · uk чо́вник (transport service) · hi शटल (transport service) · ba һоҫа (weaving tool) · nb skytteltrafikk (transport service) · sh čúnak (weaving tool) · th กระสวย (transport service) · bg сова́лка (weaving tool) · pt naveta (weaving tool) · my လွန်း (the sliding thread holder in a sewing machine) · nl werpspoel (weaving tool) · ky кайыкча (weaving tool) · uz moqi (weaving tool) · grc κερκίς (weaving tool) · ja 下糸入れ (weaving tool) · ro navetă (weaving tool) · cmn 班車 /班车 (transport service) · sq sovajkë (weaving tool) · it navetta (weaving tool) · km ត្រល់ (weaving tool) · mk совалка (weaving tool) · de Shuttlebus (transport service) · ca llançadora (transport service) · fi sukkulalinja (transport service) · fa-ira شاتِل (transport service) · mk солка (weaving tool) · bg сова́лка (transport service) · uk шаттл (transport service) · ka მაქო (transport service) · es lanzadera (transport service) · sk člnok (weaving tool) · ja 梭 (weaving tool) · hi ढरकी (weaving tool) · el σαΐτα (weaving tool) · de Pendelverkehr (transport service) · nb skyttel (weaving tool) · te నాడె (weaving tool) · ja シャトル (transport service) · ur ڈَھرْکی (weaving tool) · vi thoi (weaving tool) · sq mëqik (weaving tool) · ga spól (weaving tool) · mi waka kōpiko (transport service) · ko 북 (weaving tool) · pl czółenko (weaving tool) · bg ша́тъл (transport service) · be чаўно́к (transport service) · es autobús de enlace (transport service) · ar مَكُوك (transport service) · eo glitbobeno (the sliding thread holder in a sewing machine) · it spoletta (weaving tool) · ko 셔틀 (transport service) · gl lanzadeira (the sliding thread holder in a sewing machine) · ru челно́к (weaving tool) · hy մաքոք (weaving tool) · uk чо́вник (weaving tool) · ka შატლი (transport service) · gl lanzadeira (transport service) · ka მაქო (weaving tool) · ro suveică (weaving tool) · ru челно́чный тра́нспорт (transport service) · sl čolniček (weaving tool) · es lanzadera (the sliding thread holder in a sewing machine) · hu ingajárat (transport service)