Usually means: Vehicle for transport between locations.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. shuttle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shuttle: Merriam-Webster
  3. shuttle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shuttle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shuttle: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shuttle: Vocabulary.com
  7. Shuttle, shuttle: Wordnik
  8. shuttle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. shuttle: Wiktionary
  10. shuttle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. shuttle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. shuttle: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. shuttle: Dictionary.com
  14. shuttle (n.), shuttle (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. shuttle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Shuttle (disambiguation), Shuttle (film), Shuttle (spacecraft type), Shuttle (video game), Shuttle (weaving), Shuttle, The Shuttle (film), The Shuttle (novel), The Shuttle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Shuttle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. shuttle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. shuttle: Rhymezone
  20. shuttle, shuttle (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. shuttle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. shuttle: FreeDictionary.org
  23. shuttle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. shuttle: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. shuttle: Encyclopedia
  2. Computer Glossart and Terminologies (No longer online)

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. shuttle: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shuttle: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. shuttle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. shuttle: The Folk File
  3. shuttle: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)
  2. Inter Badminton (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See shuttled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (weaving) A tool used to carry the woof back and forth between the warp threads on a loom.
noun:  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.
noun:  A transport service (such as a bus or train) that goes back and forth between two or more places.
noun:  Such a transport vehicle; a shuttle bus; a space shuttle.
noun:  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).
noun:  A shuttlecock.
noun:  A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.
verb:  (intransitive, transitive) To go or send back and forth between two places.
verb:  (transitive) To transport by shuttle or by means of a shuttle service.

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