to shuttle
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4.1
- verb
- /ˈʃʌtəl/
- During the summer, the park ranger shuttles visitors to different trailheads every hour.
- shuttle back and forth
- shuttle between two places
- shuttle children
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Watch on YouTubeI mean, that's your whole life now is, is just shuttling children back and forth between these things.
- I mean, that's your whole life now is, is just shuttling children back and forth between these things.
- And as people were being invited to this, there was emails that were being shuttled back and forth.
- So you're you're losing fat from your fat stores, but that fat is being shuttled to the liver and then the liver takes that fat and breaks it down.
- Tends to sequester or shuttle the conurine into the muscle so that it isn't converted into this neurotoxin that is pro depression.
- That was like like shuttling cash and weed from Canada back and forth to the US.
- I bet it's like you're shuttling down this tiny, tiny dirt road.
- But there's an express pass for DHA and EPA like they can just shuttle in because of this.
Examples
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There are pavements for bike riders and buses for students to shuttle around campus and town.
Academic text (2014) -
Military and civilian helicopters are shuttling the injured to first aid stations inland, meanwhile buses are taking the stranded to disaster relief centers.
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Could a parent or school vehicle shuttle the students from one site to the other?
Academic text (1998) -
I quite enjoy traveling across the country, shuttling from center to center, hospital to hospital.
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Until reaching the age of 6, the child would shuttle every two weeks between the separate parental residences.
Academic text (1998) -
One bus will stay throughout the day to shuttle those wanting to go back to the Williamsburg Lodge.
Academic text (1995) -
Then I shuttle the kids to piano lessons and soccer games and dance classes and doctors' appointments, before my daily trip to the grocery store.
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In the morning and afternoon it shuttled the schoolchildren to San Francisco for classes.
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Born of an Argentine mother in Fairbanks, Alaska, Kevin Johansen has spent his life shuttling between two hemispheric extremes.
Academic text (2014) -
In the mornings, the bus shuttles workers between the city and the suburbs.
Synonyms
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1.0
To go from one place to another, often for work or pleasure
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2.5
To travel regularly between home and work, often over a long distance
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2.6
To travel from one place to another over a long distance
Compounds
- Specialized
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4.2
A reusable vehicle with wings that carries people and cargo to space and returns to Earth
- Literature
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6.8
Talks where a neutral person travels between two sides to help them reach an agreement
A helicopter that often moves people or goods back and forth between two places
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Surface Forms
Etymology
To shuttle (verb) means to move people or things often between two places; think of the weaving shuttle or something 'shot' back and forth, and you will remember it means regular travel that goes to and fro.