shuttle
verb/ˈʃʌtl/
/ˈʃʌtl/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they shuttle | /ˈʃʌtl/ /ˈʃʌtl/ |
| he / she / it shuttles | /ˈʃʌtlz/ /ˈʃʌtlz/ |
| past simple shuttled | /ˈʃʌtld/ /ˈʃʌtld/ |
| past participle shuttled | /ˈʃʌtld/ /ˈʃʌtld/ |
| -ing form shuttling | /ˈʃʌtlɪŋ/ /ˈʃʌtlɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] shuttle (between A and B) to travel between two places frequently
- Her childhood was spent shuttling between her mother and father.
- [transitive] shuttle somebody (+ adv./prep.) 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.
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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