Feeder vs Shuttle - What's the difference?
feeder | shuttle |
That which feeds.
That which is used to feed.
A tributary stream, especially of a canal.
A branch line of a railway
A transmission line that feeds the electricity for an electricity substation, or for a transmitter.
The pitcher.
(video games, derogatory) A player who is killed by the opposing player or team more than once through lack of skills and experience, thus helping the opposing side.
The participant in feederism who feeds the other (the feedee).
* 2010 , Niall Richardson, Transgressive Bodies
(weaving) The part of a loom that carries the woof back and forth between the warp threads.
* Sandys
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.
A transport service (such as a bus or train) that goes back and forth between two places, sometimes more.
Such a transport vehicle; a shuttle bus; a space shuttle.
*2004 , Dawn of the Dead, 1:14:20:
*:You're saying we take the parking shuttles, reinforce them with aluminum siding and then head to the gun store where our friend Andy plays some cowboy-movie, jump-on-the-wagon bullshit.
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 ).
A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.
To go back and forth between two places.
To transport by shuttle or by means of a shuttle service.
As nouns the difference between feeder and shuttle
is that feeder is that which feeds while shuttle is (weaving) the part of a loom that carries the woof back and forth between the warp threads.As a verb shuttle is
to go back and forth between two places.feeder
English
Noun
(en noun)- a bird feeder
- Stop feeding! You feeder .
- Often similes such as 'soft as velvet' or 'fluffy like a cloud' will be employed and the feeder will describe how he feels he can be lost in the enveloping folds of soft flesh.
Derived terms
* bottom feeder * feeder cattle * feeder fish * feederismAnagrams
* * English agent nouns ----shuttle
English
Noun
(en noun)- Like shuttles through the loom, so swiftly glide / My feathered hours.