shuttleとは

発音

• 韻: -ʌtəl
  • (米国発音) IPA^(key): [ˈʃʌɾel]

名詞

shuttle (複数形 shuttles)

1. (weaving) The part of a loom that carries the woof back and forth between the warp threads.
   • 1611, King James Version, Job 7:6:

     My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

   • 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 または train) that goes back and forth between two places, sometimes more.
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 化学, a molecular shuttle).
6. A shuttlecock.
7. A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.

使用する際の注意点

Strictly speaking, a shuttle goes back and forth between two places. However, the term is also used more generally for short-haul transport that may be one-way or have multiple stops (including shared ride または loop), particularly for airport buses; compare loose usage of limousine.

動詞

shuttle (三人称単数 現在形 shuttles, 現在分詞 shuttling, 過去形および過去分詞形 shuttled)

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

派生語

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