shuttle
意味
- (織機の)杼(ひ)(縦糸の間を走り横糸を通す器具)
- (ミシンの)シャトル(下糸を入れる器具)
- (特に短距離の)定期往復列車(バス,飛行機)便
- …を前後(左右)に動かす,往復させる
- 行ったり来たりする,左右に動く
例文
He caught the nine o'clock shuttle to New York.
彼は９時発ニューヨーク行きのシャトル便に飛び乗った。
The space shuttle informs us about the earth, too.
スペースシャトルは地球についても私たちに知識を与えてくれる。
My airport shuttle bus leaves at six o'clock.
６時のリムジンなんです。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From a merger of two words: * Middle English shutel, shotel, schetel, schettell, schyttyl, scutel (“bar; bolt”), from Old English sċyttel, sċutel (“bar; bolt”), equivalent to shut + -le * Middle English shutel, schetil, shotil, shetel, schootyll, shutyll, schytle, scytyl (“missile; projectile; spear”), from Old English sċytel, sċutel (“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.