shuttle meaning
EN
[-ʌtəl] 
US WShuttle
- The original meaning of the word shuttle is the device used in weaving to carry the weft. By reference to the continual to-and-fro motion associated with that, the term was then applied in transportation and then in other spheres.
- NounPLshuttles
- (weaving) The part of a loom that carries the woof back and forth between the warp threads.
- 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.
- A transport service (such as a bus or train) that goes back and forth between two places, sometimes more.
- Such a transport vehicle; a shuttle bus; a space shuttle.
- 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 shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.
- (weaving) The part of a loom that carries the woof back and forth between the warp threads.
- VerbSGshuttlesPRshuttlingPT, PPshuttled
- (intransitive) To go back and forth between two places.
- (transitive) To transport by shuttle or by means of a shuttle service.
- (intransitive) To go back and forth between two places.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- NASA has spacewalkers periodically look at their gloves, since the discovery of a cut in a glove used by an astronaut during the last shuttle mission.
- We speculate that lactate may be used as an alternate energy source for neurons, potentially via shuttling of glycolytically derived carbons from astrocytes, especially in hypoxia.
- His shift was over, and he was heading out on a mantrip, a type of shuttle that transports workers.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of shuttle in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Nouns
- en shuttlecock
- en shuttles
- en shuttled
- en shuttler
- en shuttlers
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "shuttle" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.