shuttle
noun /ˈʃʌtl/
/ˈʃʌtl/
- 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 ExamplesTopics Transport by bus and trainc1- I took the shuttle from Washington to New York.
- The supermarket operates a complimentary shuttle service.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- airport
- hotel
- catch
- fly on
- get
- …
- bus
- flight
- service
- …
- on a/the shuttle
- shuttle between
- shuttle from
- …
- (also space shuttle)a spacecraft designed to make repeated journeys, for example between the earth and a space stationOxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
- space
- fly
- launch
- craft
- crew
- flight
- …
- aboard the shuttle
- on board the shuttle
- 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
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.