different between shuttle vs shuttler

English

Etymology

From a merger of two words:

• Middle English shutel, shotel, schetel, schettell, schyttyl, scutel (“bar; bolt”), from Old English s?yttel, s?utel (“bar; bolt”), equivalent to shut +? -le
• Middle English shutel, schetil, shotil, shetel, schootyll, shutyll, schytle, scytyl (“missile; projectile; spear”), from Old English s?ytel, s?utel (“dart, arrow”), from Proto-Germanic *skutilaz.

The name for a loom weaving instrument, recorded from 1338, is from a sense of being "shot" across the threads. The back-and-forth imagery inspired the extension to "passenger trains" in 1895, aircraft in 1942, and spacecraft in 1969, as well as older terms such as shuttlecock.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /???t?l/
• Rhymes: -?t?l

Noun

shuttle (plural shuttles)

1. (weaving) A tool used to carry the woof back and forth between the warp threads on a loom.
   • 1638, George Sandys, "A Paraphrase upon Job":

     Like shuttles through the loom, so swiftly glide

     My feather'd hours, and all my hopes deride!.
2. 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. A transport service (such as a bus or train) that goes back and forth between two or more places.
4. Such a transport vehicle; a shuttle bus; a space shuttle.
   • 2004, Dawn of the Dead, 1:14:20:

     You're saying we take the parking shuttles, reinforce them with aluminum siding and then head to the gun store where our friend Andy plays some cowboy-movie, jump-on-the-wagon bullshit.

5. 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. A shuttlecock.
7. A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.

Usage notes

In its original sense, a shuttle goes back and forth between two places. The term is also used in a broader sense for short-haul transport that may be one-way or have multiple stops (including shared ride or loop), particularly for airport buses; compare loose usage of limousine.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Dutch: shuttle
• ? Italian: shuttle
• ? Japanese: ???? (shatoru)

Translations

Verb

shuttle (third-person singular simple present shuttles, present participle shuttling, simple past and past participle shuttled)

1. (intransitive) To go back and forth between two places.
2. (transitive) To transport by shuttle or by means of a shuttle service.

   Synonym: chauffeur

Translations

Anagrams

• lusteth

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English shuttle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.t?l/
• Hyphenation: shut?tle
• Rhymes: -?t?l

Noun

shuttle m (plural shuttles, diminutive shuttletje n)

1. A space shuttle.
2. A shuttlecock, shuttle.

   Synonyms: pluimbal, vederbal

3. A shuttle bus.

Italian

Etymology

From English shuttle

Noun

shuttle m (invariable)

1. space shuttle

English

Etymology

shuttle +? -er

Noun

shuttler (plural shuttlers)

1. A badminton player.

Related terms

• shuttlecock

Anagrams

• rustleth, thrustle