shuttle

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
美 /ˈʃʌtəl/|[ˈʃʌɾəɫ]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. 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.
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. To go or send back and forth between two places. intransitive,transitive
    — 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. transitive
    — Guests can be shuttled to and from the hotel for no extra cost.

词形变化

shuttles plural shuttles present,singular,third-person shuttling participle,present shuttled participle,past shuttled past

词汇关系

衍生词
multishuttle nanoshuttle shuttlebay shuttle box shuttle bus shuttlebus shuttlecock shuttle conveyor shuttlecraft shuttle diplomacy shuttle driver shuttleless shuttlelike shuttleport shuttle race shuttle run shuttle trade shuttle vector shuttlewise Space Shuttle weavers' shuttle shuttler

词源

词源 1
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.
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.
词源 2
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.
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.
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