shuttle
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English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Etymology [edit]
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 [edit]
shuttle (plural shuttles)
- The part of a loom that carries the woof back and forth between the warp threads
- A transport service (such as a bus or train) that goes back and forth between two places.
- 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).
Translations [edit]
transport service
part of a loom
Verb [edit]
shuttle (third-person singular simple present shuttles, present participle shuttling, simple past and past participle shuttled)
- (intransitive) To go back and forth between two places.
- (transitive) To transport by shuttle or by means of a shuttle service.
Translations [edit]
to go back and forth
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to transport by shuttle
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Noun [edit]
shuttle m (plural shuttles, diminutive shuttletje)
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Noun [edit]
shuttle m (invariable)
