I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a shuttle bus (= one that makes regular short journeys between two places )
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There's a shuttle bus between the hotel and the beach.
shuttle diplomacy
space shuttle
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■ ADJECTIVE
free
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Use the free shuttle bus to the show.
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I favored Aspen for many years because I could fly there and walk or use free shuttle buses to get around.
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Or you can take the Piccadilly Line to Wood Green station and take the free shuttle to the show.
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Once in Breckenridge, a free shuttle system provides transportation to the mountain bases and throughout town.
■ NOUN
bus
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A daytime shuttle bus operates 6 days a week to the village.
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C., will deploy a fuel cell-driven shuttle bus using methanol as a fuel.
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The hotel is air-conditioned and offers a complimentary shuttle bus to the nearby Equador beach.
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A courtesy shuttle bus runs to and from the Ally Pally.
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Parmenter took the Agency shuttle bus back to Langley.
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Use the free shuttle bus to the show.
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Private vehicles are prohibited in the area, which is served by a shuttle bus .
crew
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Space shuttle crew members tinkered with a few experiments for the last time before shutting down their high-flying microgravity laboratory.
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The cameras beamed live views of shuttle crew members as they were strapped by colleagues into the cramped cockpit.
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Accompanying the shuttle crew will be 66 laboratory rats, six of them nursing females and the remainder neonates.
diplomacy
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Clinton did some frantic shuttle diplomacy , but there was nothing doing.
flight
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Malerba was on last month's Atlantis shuttle flight which failed to launch a satellite to produce electricity.
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Most space shuttle flights are dedicated to that project.
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The Bush proposal would fund only six shuttle flights per year instead of the seven or eight planned now.
mission
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Challenger Learning Centres aim to give children something of the excitement and adventure of a shuttle mission .
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It will be the first shuttle mission for Horowitz, who began flying with his father at age 7.
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It also provides a docking facility for later shuttle missions .
program
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It is an actual spacecraft from the Soviet space shuttle program , owned and operated by former cosmonauts and space program employees.
service
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He suggested a shuttle service may be suitable for people wishing to attend at Marton.
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There's even complimentary shuttle service to and from the nearby Music Center.
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Most trains on the Oxford line were stopped at Didcot, there buses ran a shuttle service to Slough.
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If the shuttle service is a hit, it will likely operate more frequently, Redlitz said.
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There has been growing speculation that the airline intends to transfer its Heathrow shuttle service from Aldergrove to the harbour route.
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C., I used to take the airplane shuttle service the night before.
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The Shorts 360 specialises on the Jersey - Guernsey shuttle service .
space
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Seven-year-old Amy Collard captured the spirit of many who watched the space shuttle Challenger disintegrate in the Florida sky.
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The number of space shuttle assembly missions will be reduced from seven to six a year.
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Rockwell not only built the space shuttle but constructed key components for the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs of the 1960s.
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Astronauts re-launch stranded satellite Astronauts on the space shuttle have sent a stranded satellite back into orbit.
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Mark told of an acquaintance who was honored to greet the returning space shuttle astronauts.
■ VERB
launch
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A similar problem had forced the cancellation of the May launch of the shuttle Columbia.
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The computer runs a backup software program for launching and landing the shuttle .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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If I take the 6:30 shuttle , I'll be there in time for the meeting.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A glorious bright turquoise liquid jersey pantsuit is the ultimate garb for travel by space shuttle .
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Agents and ambassadors left on the down shuttle , frantically covering their tracks.
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Columbia blasted off Thursday on a planned 17-day flight, the longest ever for a shuttle .
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The shuttle also will nudge the observatory gently into a slighter higher orbit to extend its lifetime.
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The cost of launching that ounce of gold into low-Earth orbit by shuttle would be about $ 830.
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The deployer mechanism snagged on a safety bolt, and the satellite never made it more than 850 feet from the shuttle .
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The warp thread is wound round the pegs and two large and two small shuttles used for weaving the weft.
II. verb
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■ ADVERB
back
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Or does it merely shuttle back and forth like a ferry?
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Now he had to devise a method by which workmen and supplies could shuttle back and forth across the gorge.
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We shuttle back and forth between the large department stores that anchor the mall.
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A piston destined to shuttle back and forth within a cylinder will be made on a lathe.
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Body bags were being zipped and trolleys shuttled back and forth.
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Pre-packed experiments will be shuttled back and forth from Earth and slotted into 13 research racks.
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Mrs Mandela has been shuttling back and forth with messages from her husband's prison home near Cape Town.
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Passengers were herded onto buses and shuttled to hotels downtown.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A piston destined to shuttle back and forth within a cylinder will be made on a lathe.
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All day students are shuttled from room to room for forty two-to fifty five-minute periods of unrelated subject matter.
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During the week, I often shuttle easily to appointments in central London by car.
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Ross watched as it shuttled between them, going from hand to hand across thirty feet of air.
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The goldfish shuttled to and fro, beneath the flat leaves, and there was an hour longer for them to sit there.