shuttle

Etymology
From a merger of two words: 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.
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Noun

 * 1)  A tool used to carry the woof back and forth between the warp threads on a loom.
 * 2) 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.
 * 3) A transport service (such as a bus or train) that goes back and forth between two or more places.
 * 4) Such a transport vehicle; a shuttle bus; a space shuttle.
 * 5) 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).
 * 6) A shuttlecock.
 * 7) A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.
 * 1) Such a transport vehicle; a shuttle bus; a space shuttle.
 * 2) 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).
 * 3) A shuttlecock.
 * 4) A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.
 * 1) A shuttlecock.
 * 2) 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. 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.

Translations

 * Arabic: مَكُّوك
 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian: կկոց
 * Assamese: মাকো
 * Azerbaijani: məkik
 * Bashkir: һоҫа
 * Belarusian: чаўно́к, чо́ўнік
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: skyttel
 * Dutch: werpspoel, ,
 * Esperanto: navedo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ნავი,
 * German: Weberschiffchen
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κερκίς
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: skytta
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, 下糸入れ
 * Kazakh: қайық
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz:, кайыкча
 * Lao: ກະສວຽ, ສວຍ, ສວຽ, ກ້ານສວຍ
 * Lithuanian: šaudyklė
 * Macedonian: совалка, солка
 * Norwegian: skyttel
 * Ottoman Turkish: مكیك
 * Pashto: ماکو
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, lançadeira
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: navetta, tschifla, bartgina
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: чу́нак
 * Latin:
 * Slovak: člnok
 * Slovene: čolniček
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: моку
 * Tausug: ulakan
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: чо́вник
 * Uzbek: moqi
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: gwennol


 * Breton:
 * Burmese:
 * Esperanto: glitbobeno, navedo
 * French:
 * German:, Webschützen
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:


 * Arabic: مَكُوك
 * Belarusian: чаўно́к, чо́ўнік, шатл
 * Bengali: শাটল
 * Bulgarian:, ша́тъл
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 穿梭班機,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, sukkulalinja
 * French:
 * Georgian:, შატლი
 * German:, Shuttlebus
 * Hindi: शटल
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: skutla
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Maori: waka kōpiko
 * Norwegian: skytteltrafikk
 * Persian: شاتل
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, челно́чный тра́нспорт,
 * Spanish:, bus de cortesía
 * Swedish: ,
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian: чо́вник, шаттл
 * Urdu: شٹل
 * Welsh: gwennol

Verb

 * 1)  To go or send back and forth between two places.
 * 2)  To transport by shuttle or by means of a shuttle service.
 * 1)  To transport by shuttle or by means of a shuttle service.

Translations

 * Esperanto: navedi
 * Finnish: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, ingajáratban közlekedik, oda-vissza jár
 * Italian: fare la spola
 * Romanian: a face naveta


 * Finnish:
 * Georgian:
 * Greek: ,
 * Icelandic: skutla
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish:

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) A space shuttle.
 * 2) A shuttlecock,.
 * 3) A.
 * 1) A.
 * 1) A.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) space shuttle