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1. shuttle
   The device used to carry the cross or FILLING YARN back and forth through the strands of longitudinal or WARP YARN in WEAVING cloth.
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2. shuttle
   [n] - public transport that consists of a bus or train or airplane that plies back and forth between two points 2. [n] - bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads 3. [v] - travel back and forth between two points
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3. Shuttle
   1) A technique of stopping the fast winding (either fast-forward or rewind) of tape in older tape machines where the engineer put the tape machine in the opposite fast mode and pressed stop after the machine just started to reverse direction.
   2) Moving the reels by hand so that the tape moves pas...
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4. Shuttle
   A device on a tractor or handler which allows direction to be reversed at the flick of a lever with no requirement to use the clutch.
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5. Shuttle
   The device that carries the weft thread across the loom.
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6. shuttle
   a) in a Schiffli embroidery machine: a boat-shaped yarn package holder travelling in a slide a such a manner that it passes through the loop formed in the needle thread thus forming the back thread of the lock stitch. The shuttle-yarn package is a coreless cop and tension is applied by means of a sp...
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7. Shuttle
   Shut'tle noun [ Also shittle , Middle English schitel , scytyl , schetyl ; confer Middle English schitel a bolt of a door, Anglo-Saxon scyttes ; all from Anglo-Saxon sceótan to shoot; akin to Danish
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8. Shuttle
   Shut'tle intransitive verb To move backwards and forwards, like a shuttle. « I had to fly far and wide, shutting athwart the big Babel, wherever his calls and pauses had to be.» Carlyle.
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9. shuttle
   1. An instrument used in weaving for passing or shooting the thread of the woof from one side of the cloth to the other between the threads of the warp. 'Like shuttles through the loom, so swiftly glide My feathered hours.' (Sandys) ... 2. The sliding thread holder in a sewing machine, which carries...
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10. shuttle
    noun bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads
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11. Shuttle
    • (n.) An instrument used in weaving for passing or shooting the thread of the woof from one side of the cloth to the other between the threads of the warp. • (v. i.) To move backwards and forwards, like a shuttle. • (n.) The sliding thread holder in a sewing machine, which carries th...
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12. shuttle
    (from the article `loom`) ...threads, which together formed the warp, it was possible to run a cross thread, a weft, or filling, between them. The block of wood used to carry ... [4 related articles]
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13. shuttle
    shuttle: see loom.
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14. Shuttle
    In railway terminology, a shuttle usually means a service operating back and forth between two stations without an intermediate stop. The Channel Tunnel service is called Le Shuttle and many cities operate shuttle services between airports and city centres. The Gatwick Express, which operates in the...
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15. shuttle
    Type: Term Pronunciation: shŭt′ĕl Definitions: 1. A going back and forth regularly; used in respect to certain transport processes across a biomembrane.
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16. Shuttle
    The original meaning of the word `shuttle` is the device used in weaving to carry the weft. By reference to the continual to-and-fro motion associated with that, the term was then applied in transportation and then in other spheres. Thus the word may now also refer to: Transportation : ;Spacecraft ;...
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17. Shuttle
    (weaving) A `shuttle` is a tool designed to neatly and compactly store weft yarn while weaving. Shuttles are thrown or passed back and forth through the shed, between the yarn threads of the warp in order to weave in the weft. The simplest shuttles, known as "stick shuttles", are ma...
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18. Shuttle
    (video game) `Shuttle` is a space flight simulator game developed by Vektor Grafix and published by Virgin Games. It has been praised as a reasonable accurate simulation game of piloting the NASA Space Shuttle. Description: The software is noted for simulations of the space shuttle in ...
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19. Shuttle
    (film) `Shuttle` is a 2008 thriller film/horror film about a group of young travelers who are kidnapped by an airport shuttle driver with unknown motives. The film was written and directed by Edward Anderson, and stars Tony Curran, Peyton List, Cullen Douglas, and Cameron Goodman. S...
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