# 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: /ˈʃʌtəl/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌtəl

### Noun

shuttle (plural shuttles)
* (weaving) A tool used to carry the woof back and forth between the warp threads on a loom.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 7:6:My dayes are ſwifter then a weauers ſhuttle, and are ſpent without hope.
** 1638, George Sandys, A Paraphrase upon Job:Like shuttles through the loom, so swiftly glide My feather'd hours, and all my hopes deride!.
** 2013 November 11, Claus-Dieter Brauns, “Food and Clothing”, in Mru: Hill People on the Border of Bangladesh‎, Basel: Birkhäuser, page 131:By placing the sword edgewise, the weaver keeps the countershed open, in order to shoot through the shuttle.
* 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.
    The shuttle bus runs to the airport on a half-hourly basis from the central station.
** 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, pages 76, 77:And until December 2010 the northern stretch of the 'Extension' featured a charming side-show: the Chesham Shuttle. [...] But the people of Chesham moaned about the shuttle: the waiting room at Chalfont & Latimer was too hot, or too cold; there were leaves on the line. [...] On 12 Dec 2010 the shuttle ceased operations and Metropolitan trains began to terminate at both Amersham and Chesham.
* Such a transport vehicle; a shuttle bus; a space shuttle.
** 2004, Dawn of the Dead, 1:14:20:You're saying we take the parking shuttles, reinforce them with aluminum siding and then head to the gun store where our friend Andy plays some cowboy-movie, jump-on-the-wagon bullshit.
* 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

* shuttle box
* shuttle bus, shuttlebus
* shuttlecock
* shuttle conveyor
* shuttlecraft
* shuttle diplomacy
* shuttle driver
* shuttleless
* shuttle race
* shuttle run
* shuttle trade
* shuttle vector
* shuttlewise
* Space Shuttle, space shuttle
* weavers' shuttle

#### 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.
** 1982 April 24, Larry Goldsmith, “Freedom of Information: A Heterosexual Privilege?”, in Gay Community News, page 6:On several occasions during the next several months my attempts to see the logs were met alternately with this denial of their existence or a denial of my right to see them. After being shuttled from station to headquarters and headquarters to station, I finally consulted with GCNs attorney, John Ward.
* (transitive) To transport by shuttle or by means of a shuttle service.
    Synonym: chauffeur
    Guests can be shuttled to a from the hotel for no extra cost.

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* hutlets, lusteth

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English shuttle.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʃʏ.təl/
* Audio:(file)
* 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

## Italian
### Etymology

From English shuttle.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: $^*$/ˈʃat.tel/, $^*$/ˈʃat.tol/
* Rhymes: -attel, -attol

### Noun

shuttle m (invariable)
* space shuttle

### References

* ↑ shuttle in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)