Shuttle
['ʃʌt(ə)l] or ['ʃʌtl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads.
(noun.) public transport that consists of a bus or train or airplane that plies back and forth between two points.
(verb.) travel back and forth between two points.
埃西手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) An instrument used in weaving for passing or shooting the thread of the woof from one side of the cloth to the other between the threads of the warp.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.
(v. i.) To move backwards and forwards, like a shuttle.
編輯:曼纽尔
解釋/意思:
n. an instrument used for shooting the thread of the woof between the threads of the warp in weaving.—v.t. and v.i. to move to and fro like a shuttle.—n. Shutt′lecock a rounded cork stuck with feathers driven with a battledore: the game itself.—adv. Shutt′lewise in the manner of a shuttle.—adj. Shutt′le-wit′ted flighty.
錄入:温德尔
例句/造句/用法:
- This consisted of mechanical means for throwing the shuttle across the web by a sudden jerk of a bar--one at each side--operated by pulling a cord. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Through this shed the shuttle which carries the woof or filling thread is sent crosswise the warp threads. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Then a shuttle, also carrying a stout thread, was thrown over the cord, the needle receded and was then forced through the broom again _under_ the binding cord. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Wilson invented the rotary hook carrying a bobbin, which took the place of the reciprocating shuttle. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Crude Condition until the Modern Lathe, Mandrel, Shuttle and Sewing Machine. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- But the greatest curiosity, upon which the fate of the island depends, is a loadstone of a prodigious size, in shape resembling a weaver's shuttle. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- For the making of ribbons and other kind of narrow ware, the needle power loom has been invented, in which the fine weft thread is carried through the web by a needle instead of a shuttle. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- In 1760 Robert Kay invented the drop box, by which different shuttles carrying different colors of thread were employed. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Spindles, shuttles, wheels, and contrivances, plying ideally within the same; rather hopeless-looking, which, however, he did at last bring to bear. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
整理:米歇尔