shuttle

1. 1.

   travel back and forth between two points

   Broadertravel

Other forms of shuttle

plural

shuttles·

past tense

shuttled·

present participle

shuttling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about shuttle

What does shuttle mean?

shuttle means "badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shuttle?

shuttle has 2 syllables: shut-tle. The stress falls on "shut". In IPA it is /ˈʃʌtəl/.

What is another word for shuttle?

Close synonyms include shuttlecock, bird, birdie. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shuttle a common word?

shuttle is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.