shuttle
English
editEtymology
editFrom 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.
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 shuttlecock.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editshuttle (plural shuttles)
- (weaving) A tool used to carry the woof back and forth between the warp threads on a loom.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 7:6:
- My dayes are ſwifter then a weauers ſhuttle, and are ſpent without hope.
- 1638, George Sandys, A Paraphrase upon Job:
- Like shuttles through the loom, so swiftly glide
My feather'd hours, and all my hopes deride!.
- 2013 November 11, Claus-Dieter Brauns, “Food and Clothing”, in Mru: Hill People on the Border of Bangladesh[1], Basel: Birkhäuser, page 131:
- By placing the sword edgewise, the weaver keeps the countershed open, in order to shoot through the shuttle.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, pages 76, 77:
- 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.
- Such a transport vehicle; a shuttle bus; a space shuttle.
- 2004, Dawn of the Dead, 1:14:20:
- 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.
- 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).
- A shuttlecock.
- A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.
Usage notes
editIn 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 limousine. 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.
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Verb
editshuttle (third-person singular simple present shuttles, present participle shuttling, simple past and past participle shuttled)
- (intransitive, transitive) To go or send back and forth between two places.
- 1982 April 24, Larry Goldsmith, “Freedom of Information: A Heterosexual Privilege?”, in Gay Community News, page 6:
- 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.
- (transitive) To transport by shuttle or by means of a shuttle service.
- Synonym: chauffeur
- Guests can be shuttled to a from the hotel for no extra cost.
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editDutch
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English shuttle.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editshuttle m (plural shuttles, diminutive shuttletje n)
- A space shuttle.
- Synonyms: ruimteveer, ruimtependel
- A shuttlecock, shuttle.
- A shuttle bus.
- Synonym: pendelbus
Italian
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editshuttle m (invariable)
References
edit- ^ shuttle in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
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