1 a plane, bus or train that travels regularly between two places:
a shuttle service between London and Edinburgh * I'm flying to Boston on the shuttle.
2 = SPACESHUTTLE
3 a pointed tool used in weaving to pull a thread backwards and forwards over the other threads that pass along the length of the fabric
verb [+adv./prep.]
1 [V] ~ (between A and B) to travel between two places frequently:
Her childhood was spent shuttling between her mother and father.
2 [VN] to carry people between two places that are close, making regular journeys between the two places:
A bus shuttles passengers back and forth from the station to the terminal.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for shuttle is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is shuttle a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, shuttle is tagged as noun.
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