shuttle

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

shut·tle [shuttle shuttles shuttled shuttling] noun, verb BrE [ˈʃʌtl] NAmE [ˈʃʌtl]
noun
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. = ↑space shuttle
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. the Shuttlesingular a train service that takes cars and their passengers through the Channel Tunnel between England and France

Word Origin:
Old 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.

Example Bank:
•I took the shuttle from Washington to New York.
•The supermarket operates a complimentary shuttle service.
•We'll fly up on the shuttle.
•the shuttle between Adrar and Oran

 
verb
1. intransitive ~ (between A and B) to travel between two places frequently
•Her childhood was spent shuttling between her mother and father.
2. transitive ~ sb (+ 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.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
Old 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.
 

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  shuttlecock, bird, birdie