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Shuttle

Noun

Definitions

1.NounA tool used to carry the woof back and forth between the warp threads on a loom.
2.NounThe 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.NounA 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.NounSuch a transport vehicle; a shuttle bus; a space shuttle.
5.NounAny 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.NounA shuttlecock.
7.NounA shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.
8.VerbTo go or send back and forth between two places.
9.VerbTo transport by shuttle or by means of a shuttle service.
"Guests can be shuttled to and from the hotel for no extra cost."
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