shuttles
Meaning of shuttles
- a form of transport that travels regularly between two places.
the nine o'clock shuttle from Edinburgh
a shuttle bus departs every 30 minutes
- a bobbin with two pointed ends used for carrying the weft thread across between the warp threads in weaving.
- short for shuttlecock.
- travel regularly between two or more places.
the Secretary of State shuttled to and fro seeking compromise
Old English scytel ‘dart, missile’, of Germanic origin; compare with Old Norse skutill ‘harpoon’; related to shoot. Sense 1 and the verb are from the movement of the bobbin from one side of the loom to the other and back.
Information about shuttles
- The singular form of shuttles is: shuttle.
- Languages in which shuttles is used:
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Hyphenation of shuttles
shut-tles
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- shuttles is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
shuttles synonyms
Meaning a thickness or layer of a folded or laminated material:
Meaning (of a bus, train, ferry, or other form of transport) make a regular journey on a particular route:
Meaning travel some distance between one's home and place of work on a regular basis:
Meaning occur in turn repeatedly:
Words that rhyme with shuttles
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