Search for crossword answers and clues
Travel between Grand Central and Times Square
Answer for the clue "Travel between Grand Central and Times Square ", 7 letters:
shuttle
Alternative clues for the word shuttle
Word definitions for shuttle in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context weaving English) 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 ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, "move rapidly to and fro," from shuttle (n.); sense of "transport via a shuttle service" is recorded from 1930. Related: Shuttled ; shuttling .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The original meaning of the word shuttle is the device used in weaving to carry the weft. By reference to the continual to-and-fro motion associated with that, the term was then applied in transportation and then in other spheres. Thus the word may now ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers [syn: shuttlecock , bird , birdie ] public transport that consists of a bus or train or airplane that plies back and forth between two points bobbin that passes the weft ...
Usage examples of shuttle.
As the passengers left the shuttle by the rear exit, a dozen Katyl arrived, riding bareback on large, ponderous animals.
Dane concealed the hovercraft behind a shuttle bay, then led Aiyana and Batty toward the nearest vehicle.
Timothy Mears had hopped the same shuttle flight back to Manticore with his Admiral, and he laughed out loud.
Shuttle, and then apply each tile by hand in the most meticulous manner.
An angry Xonea entered the shuttle, carrying one of his multibladed weapons, and dragged the Terran out onto the deck.
Outworld, homebound, able to see the Outworld shuttle belch upward on an arc of fire and to see Outgate swimming in space, destination of lovers.
If he did indeed have pancreatitis, this therapy alone would carry him through the next few days, until the shuttle arrived.
As he watched, Pattera tucked the shuttle into a leather bracket on the loom frame and, wrapping a brown shawl around her, scurried toward the door.
Whenever the two women are thrown together, at a press conference or a briefing or during the dress rehearsal for the Dy-nawing launch and transfer onto the Mars Shuttle, Mariella flushes with shame and her hatred of Penn Brown tightens a notch.
During my brief stay with these hardened warriors and the professionals who led them, I helped out where and when I could, shuttling myself between Cheo Reo and the new camp at Plei Do Lim.
On the polymerized treetop landing pad, he stepped out of the shuttle and hugged her enthusiastically.
Drifting down to a second preselected location on the surface, they repeated the sequence before starting back to the shuttle.
I stepped out of the shuttle and onto Principia geosynchronous orbital station.
The Shuttle is not a true reusable launch vehicle, considering the efforts it takes to refly one.
They were beginning their search of Sinbad as Renner took the shuttle out of its bay and started his descent.