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Shuttle
Found in thesaurus: badminton equipment, public transport, spool, reel, bobbin, go, move, travel, locomote
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shuttle
v.
travel back and forth; transport back and forth
n.
device that holds the horizontal thread and passes it through the vertical threads (Weaving); lower bobbin in a sewing machine; transportation route connecting two locations; vehicle that transports people over a short route (boat, bus, etc.); birdie, ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers used in badminton
adj.
transporting people over a short route (boat, bus, etc.)
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Shuttle
The original meaning of the word shuttle is the device used in weaving to carry the weft. By reference to the continual to-and-fro motion associated with that, the term was then applied in transportation and then in other spheres. Thus the word may now also refer to:
Transportation
- Spacecraft
- Buran (spacecraft), the vehicle for the Soviet space shuttle program
- Space Shuttle, the vehicle for the NASA space program from 1981 to 2011
- Shuttlecraft (disambiguation), any smaller spacecraft, usually capable of atmospheric transport
- Air transportation
- Delta Shuttle, the brand name for Delta Air Lines' air shuttle service
- Rossi Shuttle Quik, an Italian ultralight trike design
- Shuttle America, a regional airline based in Indianapolis, Indiana
- Shuttle by United, a regional airline operated as a subsidiary of United Airlines
- Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, modified Boeing 747 airliners used to transport Space Shuttle orbiters
- US Airways Shuttle, the brand name for an hourly service offered by US Airways
- Land transportation
- Public transport system operating at frequent intervals on a short, (mostly) non-stop route between two places
- shuttle bus service
- shuttle train service
- Shuttle (New York City Subway)
- Shuttle (Amtrak)
- car shuttle train
- Eurotunnel Shuttle, the car-carrying trains used in the Channel Tunnel
- Shuttle van, a New Zealand term for shared taxis
- The first generation Honda Odyssey, also known as Honda Shuttle
- The station wagon version of Honda Fit, known as Fit Shuttle
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shuttle
Noun
1. badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers
(synonym) shuttlecock, bird, birdie
(hypernym) badminton equipment
2. public transport that consists of a bus or train or airplane that plies back and forth between two points
(hypernym) public transport
(hyponym) shuttle bus
3. bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads
(hypernym) bobbin, spool, reel
Verb
1. travel back and forth between two points
(hypernym) travel, go, move, locomote
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Shuttle (der)
nm.
shuttle, transportation route connecting two locations; vehicle that transports people over a short route (boat, bus, etc.)
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shuttle
nm.
space shuttle, spacecraft for transporting astronauts into space
