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Definition of shuttle noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

shuttle

noun
 
/ˈʃʌtl/
 
/ˈʃʌtl/
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  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.
    CultureLe Shuttle is the name of the train service that takes cars and their passengers through the Channel Tunnel between England and France.
    Extra Examples
    • I took the shuttle from Washington to New York.
    • The supermarket operates a complimentary shuttle service.
    Topics Transport by bus and trainc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • airport
    • hotel
    verb + shuttle
    • catch
    • fly on
    • get
    • …
    shuttle + noun
    • bus
    • flight
    • service
    • …
    preposition
    • on a/​the shuttle
    • shuttle between
    • shuttle from
    • …
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  2. (also space shuttle)
     a spacecraft designed to make repeated journeys, for example between the earth and a space station
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • space
    verb + shuttle
    • fly
    • launch
    shuttle + noun
    • craft
    • crew
    • flight
    • …
    preposition
    • aboard the shuttle
    • on board the shuttle
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  3. a pointed tool used in making cloth to pull a thread backwards and forwards over the other threads that pass along the length of the cloth
    4. Word OriginOld English scytel ‘dart, missile’, of Germanic origin; compare with Old Norse skutill ‘harpoon’; related to shoot. Sense 1 and the verb are from the movement of the bobbin from one side of the loom to the other and back.
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