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Shutted vs Shuttled - What's the difference?

shutted | shuttled |

As verbs the difference between shutted and shuttled

is that shutted is past tense of shut while shuttled is past tense of shuttle.

shutted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (nonstandard) (shut)

    • shut

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) shutten, shetten, from (etyl) .

    Verb

  • To close, to stop from being open.
    • Please shut the door.
    The light was so bright I had to shut my eyes.
  • To close, to stop being open.
    • If you wait too long, the automatic door will shut .
  • (transitive, or, intransitive, chiefly, British) To close a business temporarily, or (of a business) to be closed.
    • The pharmacy is shut on Sunday.
  • To preclude; to exclude; to bar out.
  • * Dryden
    • shut from every shore
    Usage notes
    Except when part of one of the derived terms listed below, almost every use of shut'' can be replaced by ''close''. The reverse is not true -- there are many uses of ''close'' that cannot be replaced by ''shut .
    Derived terms
    (phrasal verbs derived from shut) * shut away * shut down * shut in * shut off * shut out * shut up (single words and compounds derived from shut) * shutdown, shut-down * shut-eye * shut-in * shutout, shut-out * shutter (idioms derived from shut) * open and shut * shut one's eyes to * shut the door on * shut up shop * shut your face * shut your mouth * shut your trap

    Adjective

    (-)
  • closed

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or time of shutting; close.
    • the shut of a door
  • * Milton
    • Just then returned at shut of evening flowers.
  • A door or cover; a shutter.
    • (Sir Isaac Newton)
  • The line or place where two pieces of metal are welded together.

    • Etymology 2

    Variation of (chute) or (shute) (archaic, related to (shoot)) from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A narrow alley]] or [[passageway, passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between two streets.
    • Synonyms
    * (alleyway) alley, gennel (Northern Ireland), ginnel (Yorkshire and Lancashire), gitty (East Midlands), jitty (Midlands), passage, snicket (Northern England), wynd (Scotland)

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    shuttled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (shuttle)

    • shuttle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (weaving) The part of a loom that carries the woof back and forth between the warp threads.
  • * Sandys
    • Like shuttles through the loom, so swiftly glide / My feathered hours.
  • 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.

    • Usage notes

    Strictly speaking, a shuttle goes back and forth between two places. However, the term is also used more generally for short-haul transport that may be one-way or have multiple stops (including shared ride or loop), particularly for airport buses; compare loose usage of (m).

    Verb

    (shuttl)
  • To go back and forth between two places.
  • To transport by shuttle or by means of a shuttle service.

    • Derived terms

    (Derived terms) * (l) * (l), (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l), (l) * ----