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# shuttle

«shuttle» in Mova's school dictionary: **a bus, train or plane that goes back and forth often…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a shuttle, shuttles); verb (shuttle, shuttles, shuttled, shuttling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A shuttle is a bus, train or plane that goes back and forth often between two places, like an airport and a car park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shuttle/#m1)

2) A space shuttle was a spacecraft that could fly into space and land back on Earth like a plane, so it could be used again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shuttle/#m2)

3) In badminton, a shuttle (shuttlecock) is the feathered object you hit over the net. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shuttle/#m3)

4) In weaving, a shuttle is the tool that carries the thread across the loom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shuttle/#m4)

5) (verb) To shuttle means to go or carry people back and forth between places many times. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shuttle/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons «the space shuttle» comes up in the story of space travel. In PE, badminton uses a shuttle. In everyday life, families take shuttle buses at airports and theme parks. In stories, «shuttling between» shows someone rushing about, for example a child whose parents live apart. Phrases: «shuttle bus», «space shuttle», «shuttle between», «shuttle diplomacy».

### examples

- We caught the shuttle bus from the car park to the airport. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shuttle/#x1)
- The space shuttle landed on a long runway. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shuttle/#x2)
- I hit the shuttle so high it touched the gym ceiling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shuttle/#x3)
- Mum shuttled us between football and swimming all Saturday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shuttle/#x4)
- The free shuttle runs every ten minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shuttle/#x5)
- On the loom, the shuttle flew from side to side. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shuttle/#x6)
- My brother shuttles between Mum's house and Dad's house every weekend. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shuttle/#x7)
- As the shuttle had run away the girl sat down to sew. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shuttle/#x8)

### note

Countable noun; as a verb it is regular (shuttled, shuttling). «Shuttlecock» is the full name in badminton; «birdie» is common in North America. A shuttle goes back and forth on the same route, unlike a normal bus that has a long route.

### In the corpora

- [My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.156/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «shuttle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shuttle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.