shuttle /ˈʃʌtəl/noun 7verb 2forms 3 noun7 •a bus or train service that keeps running from one place to another and back againThe shuttle bus runs to the airport on a half-hourly basis from the central station. •Such a transport vehicle; a shuttle bus; a space shuttle.You're saying we take the parking shuttles, reinforce them with aluminum siding and then head to the gun store where our friend Andy plays some cowboy-movie, jump-on-the-wagon bullshit. — 2004 •A tool used to carry the woof back and forth between the warp threads on a loom.My dayes are swifter then a weauers shuttle, and are spent without hope. — 1611 •The sliding thread holder in a sewing machine, which carries the lower thread through a loop of the upper thread, to make a lock stitch. •Any other item that moves repeatedly back and forth between two positions, possibly transporting something else with it between those points (such as, in chemistry, a molecular shuttle). •A shuttlecock. •A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal. verb2 •To go or send back and forth between two places. •To transport by shuttle or by means of a shuttle service.Guests can be shuttled to and from the hotel for no extra cost. formsshuttled · shuttling · shuttles
