a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving

A fit of anger, Any of various natural, oily or greasy heat-sensitive substances, consisting of hydrocarbons or esters of fatty acids that are insoluble in water but soluble in nonpolar, A preparation containing wax used for polishing floors and other surfaces, adjective_ Made of wax, intransitive verb_ To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; -- opposed to wane, To speak or write as specified, To show a progressively larger illuminated area, as the moon does in passing from new to full, transitive verb_ To smear or rub with wax; to treat with wax, cloth covered with a coating of wax, used as a cover, of tables and for other purposes; -- called also wax cloth, a thread pointed with a bristle and covered with shoemaker's wax, used in sewing leather, as for boots, shoes, and the like; -- called also wax end

The regulation of occurrence, pace, or coordination to achieve a desired effect, as in music, the theater, or athletics, In the design and construction of machinery, the proper adjustment of the parts of any machine so that its operations will follow in a given order to produce a given result, as in the movement of the needle, shuttle, and feed of a sewing-machine in consecutive order, uncountable The synchronization of the firing of the spark plugs in an internal combustion engine, verb_ Present participle of time

Regular travel back and forth over an established, often short route by a vehicle, A device used in weaving to carry the weft thread back and forth between the warp threads, In sewing-machines, the sliding thread-holder which carries the lower thread between the needle and the upper thread to make a lockstitch. See cuts under sewing-machine, intransitive verb_ To move backwards and forwards, like a shuttle, To go, move, or travel back and forth, especially by a shuttle, To transport, especially by a shuttle, verb_ transitive To transport by shuttle or by means of a shuttle service, verb_ travel back and forth between two points