shuttle
🇺🇸
/ˈʃʌtl/
🇬🇧
/ˈʃʌtl/
noun
R
A vehicle that goes back and forth between two places.
The airport shuttle takes people to the city center.
R
A spacecraft that makes multiple trips to space.
The space shuttle carried astronauts to the space station.
R
A tool used in weaving to pass thread through fabric.
The weaver used a shuttle to make the cloth.
verb
R
To move back and forth between places often.
She shuttles between home and work every day.
R
To carry people between nearby places regularly.
The van shuttles tourists to the hotel.
translation
A vehicle that goes back and forth between two places.; A spacecraft that makes multiple trips to space.; A tool used in weaving to pass thread through fabric.
To move back and forth between places often.; To carry people between nearby places regularly.
Word Forms
3rd Present
shuttles
Past
shuttled
Perfect
shuttled
Progressive
shuttling
Plural
shuttles