shuttle
/ˈʃʌtəl/
A transport service that goes back and forth between two or more places; A tool used to carry the woof back and forth between the warp threads on a loom; 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; Such a transport vehicle
- Plural
- shuttles
Bedeutungen
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A transport service (such as a bus or train) that goes back and forth between two or more places
My dream is to travel in a space shuttle.
Mein Traum ist, in einer Raumfähre zu reisen.
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What time does the shuttle bus leave for the airport?
Wann fährt der Flughafenzubringer los?
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A tool used to carry the woof back and forth between the warp threads on a loom
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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
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Such a transport vehicle; a shuttle bus; a space shuttle
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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)selten
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A shuttlecockselten
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A shutter, as for a channel for molten metalselten