Look up: shuttle

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   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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   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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   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 past the desired point first in one direction, then in another direction, back and forth.
   3) A control, which moves the sound track either forward or backward when the control is moved off a centre point either, left or right.
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   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.
   Found on http://www.lethamshank.co.uk/glossary/gl
   
   
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   Shuttle
   The device that carries the weft thread across the loom.
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   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 spring over the thread hole; b) in a lace furnishing machine: a term used in Scotland to denote the ca...
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   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 skyttel , skytte , shuttle, dial. Swedish skyttel , sköttel . √159. See Shoot , and confer Shittle ...
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/96
   
   
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   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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   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 the lower thread through a loop of the upper threa ...
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    shuttle
    noun bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads
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    Shuttle
    The word `shuttle` can have several meanings. In general, it is something which travels back and forth between places in a regular and relatively frequent manner.
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    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 the lower thread through a loop of the upper thread,...
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    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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    shuttle
    A going back and forth regularly; used in respect to certain transport processes across a biomembrane.
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    shuttle
    shuttle: see loom.
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