Shuttle

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A device used in weaving to carry the woof thread back and forth between the warp threads.
  • n. A device for holding the thread in tatting and netting and in a sewing machine.
  • n. Regular travel back and forth over an established, often short route by a vehicle.
  • n. A vehicle used in such travel: took the shuttle across town.
  • n. A route used by a vehicle in such travel: the Washington-New York air shuttle.
  • n. A space shuttle.
  • n. Travel between disputing parties by a diplomatic intermediary.
  • verb-intransitive. To go, move, or travel back and forth by or as if by a shuttle: business people who shuttle between European capitals.
  • v. To cause to move back and forth frequently.
  • v. To transport by or as if by a shuttle: shuttle a scientific payload to an orbiting space station.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The part of a loom that carries the woof back and forth between the warp threads
  • n. A transport service (such as a bus or train) that goes back and forth between two places.
  • n. 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).
  • v. To go back and forth between two places.
  • v. To transport by shuttle or by means of a shuttle service.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
  • n. 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.
  • n. A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.
  • verb-intransitive. To move backwards and forwards, like a shuttle.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A bolt or bar, as of a door.
  • n. An instrument used by weavers for passing or shooting the thread of the weft from one side of the web to the other between the threads of the warp.
  • n. In sewing-machines, the sliding thread-holder which carries the lower thread between the needle and the upper thread to make a lockstitch. See cuts under sewing-machine.
  • n. The gate which opens to allow the water to flow on a water-wheel.
  • n. One of the sections of a shutter-dam.
  • n. A small gate or stop through which metal is allowed to pass from the trough to the mold.
  • n. A shuttlecock; also, the game known as shuttlecock.
  • To move to and fro like a shuttle.
  • To go back and forth like a shuttle; travel to and fro.
  • Headlong; rash; thoughtless; unsteady; volatile.
  • Slippery, sliding.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. public transport that consists of a bus or train or airplane that plies back and forth between two points
  • n. badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers
  • n. bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads
  • v. travel back and forth between two points
  • Verb Form
    shuttled    shuttles    shuttling   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    badminton equipment    spool    bobbin    reel    locomote    travel    move    go   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    rebuttal    ruttle    scuttle    subtle    suttle    unsubtle   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    aircraft    helicopter    vehicle    craft    transport    rocket    starship    spacecraft    ship    pod