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