🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

班车

Pronunciation / Transliteration: bān chē

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Shuttling/ˈʃʌt.əl.ɪŋ/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"班车在机场和市区之间运送乘客。"

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2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To move back and forth between two points.

    "The bus was shuttling passengers between the airport and the city."
  2. 2

    To transport or convey something or someone repeatedly.

    "The company is shuttling supplies to the remote site every week."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'shuttling' is derived from the verb 'shuttle', which originates from the Old English 'scytel', meaning 'a dart or arrow'. The term evolved in the 14th century to refer to the movement of a shuttle in weaving, and later came to describe any back-and-forth movement.

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