shuttle

  1. Noun.  The part of a loom that carries the woof back and forth between the warp threads.
  2. Noun.  A transport service (such as a bus or train) that goes back and forth between two places.
  3. Noun.  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'').
  4. Verb.  (intransitive) To go back and forth between two places.
  5. Verb.  (transitive) To transport by shuttle or by means of a shuttle service.

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