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What does shuttle mean?

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Noun
  1. (weaving) The part of a loom that carries the woof back and forth between the warp threads.
  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 places, sometimes more.
  4. Such a transport vehicle; a shuttle bus; a space shuttle.
  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 shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.
Verb
  1. (intransitive) To go back and forth between two places.
  2. (transitive) To transport by shuttle or by means of a shuttle service.
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