shuttle

noun · verbB1

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noun

Plural noun:

shuttles

1.
(weaving) 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.
The shuttle bus runs to the airport on a half-hourly basis from the central station.
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.

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verb

V_es/s

shuttles

V_ing/Gerund

shuttling

V_ed/pp

shuttled

1.
(intransitive, transitive)To go or send back and forth between two places.
2.
(transitive)To transport by shuttle or by means of a shuttle service.
Guests can be shuttled to and from the hotel for no extra cost.
Đồng nghĩa: chauffeur

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chauffeur

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Nguồn gốc từ

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.