shuttle

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “My dayes are ſwifter then a weauers ſhuttle, and are ſpent without hope.”

2. isim 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. isim 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. isim Such a transport vehicle; a shuttle bus; a space shuttle.

   “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. isim 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. isim A shuttlecock.
7. isim A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.
8. fiil To go or send back and forth between two places.
9. fiil To transport by shuttle or by means of a shuttle service.

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