Dictionary Definition
shuttle
Noun
1 badminton equipment consisting of a ball of
cork or rubber with a crown of feathers [syn: shuttlecock, bird, birdie]
2 public transport that consists of a bus or
train or airplane that plies back and forth between two
points
3 bobbin that passes the weft thread between the
warp threads v : travel back and forth between two points
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ʌtəl
Etymology
From scytel (dart, arrow), from skutilaz (compare 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
Translations
transport service
- French: navette
- Icelandic: skytta
- Norwegian: skytteltrafikk
part of a loom
Verb
- To go back and forth between two places.
Extensive Definition
The word shuttle can have several meanings. In
general, it is something which travels back and forth between
places in a regular and relatively frequent manner.
Textiles
- Shuttle (weaving), a device used in weaving to carry the weft. This is the original meaning
Transportation
- Delta Shuttle
- Shuttle by United
- US Airways Shuttle
- The Space
Shuttle program, or
- The Space Shuttle vehicle
- A public
transport system operating at frequent intervals on a short
route, often between two locations without intermediate stops.
Also, the vehicle or route of the shuttle
- The New York City Subway shuttles
- Shuttle vans a New Zealand term for shared taxis
- Le Shuttle, the car carrying trains used in the Channel Tunnel
- Molecular shuttles: nanoscale transportation
Other
- Shuttle Inc. produces small form factor computers
- Shuttlecock, the object batted back and forth in badminton
- Shuttle vector, vector that shuttles between species, biochemistry, genetics
- Shuttle machinery, as used in extrusion blow molding
- Shuttle (game), a computer game produced by Virgin
- River Shuttle, a river of southeast London England
- Shuttle bombing, a WWII strategic bombing tactic to confuse enemy defenses by landing all or part of an Allied bombing mission at a different country instead of returning directly to the takeoff base
shuttle in German: Shuttle
shuttle in French: Shuttle
shuttle in Dutch: Shuttle
shuttle in Japanese: シャトル
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Amtrak,
air transport, air travel, airfreight, alternate, back and fill,
baggage train, battledore and shuttlecock, cable railroad,
choo-choo, cog railroad, cog railway, come and go, commute, ebb and flow, el, electric, electric train,
elevated, express, express train, flier, freight, freight train, freighter, funicular, goods train, hand
loom, hitch and hike, interurban, knitting machine,
lightning express, limited, local, loom, metro, metronome, milk train,
monorail, oscillator, parliamentary,
parliamentary train, pass and repass, passenger train, pendulum, rack-and-pinion
railroad, railroad train, range, rattler, reciprocate, ride and tie,
rocker, rocking chair,
rocking stone, rolling stock, seesaw, shunt, shuttle service, shuttle
train, shuttlecock,
special, streamliner, subway, swing, teeter, teeter-totter, teeterboard, teetery-bender,
to-and-fro, train,
tube, underground, vibrator, wax and wane, way
train, weaver,
wibble-wabble, wigwag,
zigzag