shuttle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
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.
Base: shut
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: shuttles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shuttles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shuttling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shuttled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shuttled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A tool used to carry the woof back and forth between the warp threads on a loom.
pos: noun
examples: My dayes are ſwifter then a weauers ſhuttle, and are ſpent without hope.
Like shuttles through the loom, so swiftly glide
My feather'd hours, and all my hopes deride!.
By placing the sword edgewise, the weaver keeps the countershed open, in order to shoot through the shuttle.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A transport service (such as a bus or train) that goes back and forth between two or more places.
pos: noun
examples: The shuttle bus runs to the airport on a half-hourly basis from the central station.
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.
gloss: Such a transport vehicle; a shuttle bus; a space shuttle.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
gloss: A shuttlecock.
pos: noun
gloss: A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.
pos: noun
gloss: To go or send back and forth between two places.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To transport by shuttle or by means of a shuttle service.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Guests can be shuttled to and from the hotel for no extra cost.
It may get even busier in town when a sleek train service called the Brightline debuts this summer, shuttling travelers between nearby West Palm Beach and Miami.
Derived words: multishuttle
nanoshuttle
shuttlebay
shuttle box
shuttle bus
shuttlebus
shuttlecock
shuttle conveyor
shuttlecraft
shuttle diplomacy
shuttle driver
shuttleless
shuttlelike
shuttleport
shuttle race
shuttle run
shuttle trade
shuttle vector
shuttlewise
Space Shuttle
space shuttle
weavers' shuttle
shuttler
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