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Shuttle

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Noun

1. bird, birdie, shuttle, shuttlecock

badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers

2. shuttle

public transport that consists of a bus or train or airplane that plies back and forth between two points

3. shuttle

bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads

Verb

4. shuttle

travel back and forth between two points

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Shuttle

see synonyms of shuttle
noun
1. 
a bobbin-like device used in weaving for passing the weft thread between the warp threads
2. 
a small bobbin-like device used to hold the thread in a sewing machine or in tatting, knitting, etc
3. 
a. 
a bus, train, aircraft, etc, that plies between two points, esp one that offers a frequent service over a short route
b.  short for space shuttle
4. 
a. 
the movement between various countries of a diplomat in order to negotiate with rulers who refuse to meet each other
b. 
(as modifier)
shuttle diplomacy
5. badminton short for shuttlecock
verb
6. 
to move or cause to move by or as if by a shuttle

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Shuttle

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noun
1. 
a. 
an instrument containing a reel or spool of the woof thread, used in weaving to carry the thread back and forth between the warp threads
b. 
a smaller but similar thread holder used in tatting, etc.
c. 
a device that carries the lower thread back and forth in making a lock stitch on a sewing machine
d. 
any of several devices having a similar to-and-fro action
2.  US
a. 
a traveling back and forth over an often short route, as by an airplane, train, bus, etc.
kept the planes in a 24-hour shuttle
b. 
the route so traveled
c. 
a shuttle service offered by an airline, esp. one for which reservations are not required
the New York-Washington shuttle
d. 
an airplane, train, bus, etc. used in a shuttle
3. 
space shuttle
4. 
shuttlecock
verb transitive, verb intransitiveWord forms: ˈshuttled or ˈshuttling
5. 
to move or go back and forth rapidly or frequently
6.  US
to move or go by or as by means of a shuttle

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Shuttle

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n.
1.
a. Regular travel back and forth over an established, often short route by a vehicle.
b. A vehicle used in such travel: took the shuttle across town.
c. A route used by a vehicle in such travel: the Washington-New York air shuttle.
d. A space shuttle.
e. Travel between disputing parties by a diplomatic intermediary.
2.
a. A device used in weaving to carry the weft thread back and forth between the warp threads.
b. A device for holding the thread in tatting and netting and in a sewing machine.
v. shut·tled, shut·tling, shut·tles
v.intr.
To go, move, or travel back and forth, especially by a shuttle: business people who shuttle between European capitals.
v.tr.
1. To cause to move back and forth frequently.
2. To transport, especially by a shuttle: shuttle a scientific payload to an orbiting space station.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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