shuttle

IPA: ʃˈʌtʌɫ

noun

  • (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.

verb

  • (intransitive, transitive) To go or send back and forth between two places.
  • (transitive) To transport by shuttle or by means of a shuttle service.
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Examples of "shuttle" in Sentences

  • The shuttle lands and the ride ends.
  • Finally the player lands the shuttle.
  • Pull the joystick to maneuver the shuttle.
  • Opinions differ on the lessons of the Shuttle.
  • How thick is the windshield of the space shuttle
  • The front of the shuttle is to the left of the picture.
  • Adhesive is applied to the shuttle side of the pattern.
  • In the 1920s the fate of the Shuttle seemed to be in jeopardy.
  • In the case of the shuttle type, the bobbin case is the shuttle.
  • The shuttle was docked to the ISS for the majority of the flight.

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