shuttle

== English == === Etymology === From a merger of two words: Middle English shutel, shotel, schetel, schettell, schyttyl, scutel (“bar; bolt”), from Old English sċyttel, sċutel (“bar; bolt”), equivalent to shut +‎ -le Middle English shutel, schetil, shotil, shetel, schootyll, shutyll, schytle, scytyl (“missile; projectile; spear”), from Old English sċytel, sċutel (“dart, arrow”), from Proto-Germanic *skutilaz. The name for a 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. === Pronunciation === (US) IPA(key): /ˈʃʌtəl/, [ˈʃʌɾəɫ] Rhymes: -ʌtəl === Noun === shuttle (plural shuttles) (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. ==== Usage notes ==== In its original sense, a shuttle goes back and forth between two places. The term is also used in a broader sense for short-haul transport that may be one-way or have multiple stops (including shared ride or loop), particularly for airport buses; compare loose usage of limousine. It is also often used to describe a rail replacement bus service, or a rail service that does not run the full length of the normal route forcing passengers to transfer, regardless of the number of stops. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Dutch: shuttle → Italian: shuttle → Japanese: シャトル (shatoru) → Korean: 셔틀 (syeoteul) ==== Translations ==== === Verb === shuttle (third-person singular simple present shuttles, present participle shuttling, simple past and past participle shuttled) (intransitive, transitive) To go or send back and forth between two places. (transitive) To transport by shuttle or by means of a shuttle service. Synonym: chauffeur ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === hutlets, lusteth == Dutch == === Etymology === Borrowed from English shuttle. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈʃʏ.təl/ Hyphenation: shut‧tle Rhymes: -ʏtəl === Noun === shuttle m (plural shuttles, diminutive shuttletje n) a space shuttle Synonyms: ruimteveer, ruimtependel a shuttlecock, shuttle Synonyms: pluimbal, vederbal a shuttle bus Synonym: pendelbus ==== Derived terms ==== == Italian == === Etymology === From English shuttle. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): */ˈʃat.tel/, */ˈʃat.tol/ Rhymes: -attel, -attol === Noun === shuttle m (invariable) space shuttle Synonym: navetta spaziale === References ===