shuttle

Các nghĩa

1. thoi

   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.

   Like shuttles through the loom, so swiftly glide My feather'd hours, and all my hopes deride!.

   By placing the sword edgewise, the weaver keeps the countershed open, in order to shoot through the shuttle.

2. thoi

   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. dịch vụ xe đưa đón

   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. xe đưa đón; tàu con thoi

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

5. bộ phận qua lại

   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. quả cầu lông

   A shuttlecock.

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• shuttles plural