shuttle

IPA: ʃˈʌtʌɫ

(weaving) A tool used to carry the woof back and forth between the warp threads on a loom.
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.
A transport service (such as a bus or train) that goes back and forth between two or more places.
Such a transport vehicle; a shuttle bus; a space shuttle.
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.

Examples of "shuttle" in Sentences

And the shuttle is the darling of every commander who flies it.
The reason for abandoning the shuttle is actually quite simple.
This happened because the shuttle is a fundamentally flawed design.
(No close encounters though) We are in space already and the shuttle is a cover up for the masses.
The replacement for the shuttle is the Constellation program with the Orion space craft taking the head.
And most of all, I congratulate President Clinton, who has given new meaning to the term shuttle diplomacy.
The president gave "" new meaning to the term shuttle diplomacy, '' Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said later.
Now on to my other comments, first, the shuttle is a vehichle that was tasked with many missions/expectations early on that it had no business doing.
What we got (and don't get me wrong the shuttle is an incredible system for what it does) was a vehicle that was inexpensive to develop but very expensive to operate.
You know, I've tried to prioritize issues before and while I consider the space program in general and U.S. human space exploration in particular extremely important, the retirement of the shuttle is a done deal and is not high on my list of priorities.