shuttle — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

1. A tool used to carry the woof back and forth between the warp threads on a loom.

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   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!.

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   By placing the sword edgewise, the weaver keeps the countershed open, in order to shoot through the shuttle.

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.

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   The shuttle bus runs to the airport on a half-hourly basis from the central station.

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   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.

4. Such a transport vehicle; a shuttle bus; a space shuttle.

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   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.

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.

Verbo

1. To go or send back and forth between two places.

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   • intransitivo
   • transitivo

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   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.

2. To transport by shuttle or by means of a shuttle service.

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   • transitivo

   Sinonimi

   chauffeur

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   Guests can be shuttled to and from the hotel for no extra cost.

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   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.

Sostantivo

1. badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers

   Sinonimi

   shuttlecockbirdbirdie

   Termini più generali

   badminton equipment

2. public transport that consists of a bus or train or airplane that flies back and forth between two points

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   public transport

3. bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads

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   bobbinspoolreel

Verbo

1. travel back and forth between two points

   Termini più generali

   travelgomovelocomote