Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A long motor vehicle for carrying passengers, usually along a fixed route.
- n. Informal A large or ungainly automobile.
- n. A four-wheeled cart for carrying dishes in a restaurant.
- n. Electricity A bus bar.
- n. Computer Science A parallel circuit that connects the major components of a computer, allowing the transfer of electric impulses from one connected component to any other.
- v. To transport in a bus.
- v. To transport (schoolchildren) by bus to schools outside their neighborhoods, especially as a means of achieving racial integration.
- v. To carry or clear (dishes) in a restaurant.
- v. To clear dishes from (a table).
- v. To travel in a bus.
- v. To work as a busboy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
- n. automotive A motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads.
- n. An electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components.
- n. medical industry, slang An ambulance.
- v. transitive, automotive, transport To transport via a motor bus.
- v. transitive, automotive, transport To transport students to school, often to a more distant school for the purposes of achieving racial integration.
- v. intransitive, automotive, transport To travel by bus.
- v. transitive, US, food service To clear meal remains from.
- v. intransitive, US, food service To work at clearing the remains of meals from tables or counters; to work as a busboy.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. colloq. An omnibus.
WordNet 3.0
- v. remove used dishes from the table in restaurants
- v. ride in a bus
- n. the topology of a network whose components are connected by a busbar
- v. send or move around by bus
- n. a car that is old and unreliable
- n. an electrical conductor that makes a common connection between several circuits
- n. a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport
Etymologies
- Shortening of omnibus, from Latin omnibus ("for everything/all"); dative plural of omnis ("all"). (Wiktionary)
- Short for omnibus. V., intr., sense 2, back-formation from busboy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Although writing with pen & notebook on a bus is a tricky endeavor.”
“And the first thing visitors see when they get off the bus is a statue of the company's mascot: the high-fin loach.”
“I look up at the windows, down at the ground, try to see what hit me, but my bus is here and I get on.”
“Yes | No | Report from elkslayer wrote 13 weeks 2 days ago the only thing more disgusting than the way Jim Zumbo was thrown under the bus is the immediate praise that everyone else in the hunting industry gave to AR rifles.”
“A bus is a private entity, therefore, the owner of the bus should be the one to ban or otherwise and if he knows this person is disturbing his customers and might lose money, they would put a stop to it.”
“(I would look it up, but my bus is about to arrive and I don't want lj to lose this post!)”
“If you simply want to tour around and see the country, the bus is the way to go.”
“Now, her bus is as quiet as a library, with students studying the books they will write book reports about in order to win prizes from their beloved driver, known to them as "Miss Kookyi.”
The Huffington Post: Rosemary Peterson: Bus Driver Turns Bus Into Library, Promotes Reading
“This is what you describe as the bus waiting to take you home.”
“It was about 2: 14 in the afternoon, and it happened -- what we call the bus turnaround, where they turn around.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bus’.
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50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
walking, bicycle, bus, train, motorcycle, airplane, car, truck, segway, limousine, roller coaster, wheelbarrow and 130 more...
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WF - list of EN back-formations
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aborigine, accrete, acculturate, admix, admixture, adolesce, adsorb, adulate, advect, aesthete, air-condition, anticline and 212 more...
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MANY A WORD!
This is just a list, right, that I'm gonna, like, fill with words, that, like, are every word that I can, like, think of with, ahhmm, my brain.
and, able, art, ass, algebra, amp, ankle, booze, bong, aura, bling, bright and 134 more...
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Palabras de 3 letras en Español.
La única lista que también incluye flexiónes verbales y pluralizaciones. Aún faltan algunas por encontrar.
(Por ser una lista para Scrabble, los dígrafos ll, rr, y ch se consideran com...aba, aca, aga, ahe, ahi, aho, aja, aje, aji, ajo, ala, ale and 427 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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3 Letter Words
A list of English words that are three letters long.
ace, act, ade, ado, add, ads, age, ago, ail, air, aim, all and 397 more...
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Computers
Words that have different meanings pertaining to computers than in the "real" world.
root, terminal, windows, apple, crash, kernel, mouse, port, bus, key, shift, drive and 8 more...
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Computers changed everything
Words that were well established before they gained special use in computing systems.
server, protocol, interface, bug, spam, virus, mouse, program, hack, chip, drive, window and 61 more...
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Automobiles
ambulance, automobile, beach buggy, cab, car, cement mixer, cherry, coach, compact, convertible, coupe, deuce and 66 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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Baby Got Back-Formations
"A new word created by removing an affix from an already existing word, as vacuum clean from vacuum cleaner, or by removing what is mistakenly thought to be an affix, as pea from the earlier Englis...
resurrect, enthuse, couth, donate, emote, greed, isolate, manipulate, orate, prequel, spectate, upholster and 94 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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Way~Wordie... . .
Didactic and likely fallible tracking of secretive nomadic language Zincali gypsy.
abatico, abelar, abertune, aberucar, abicholar, abillelar, abri, acaba, acana, acarar, acatan, achibes and 418 more...
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3LW
3 letter words, not the girl band.
boggle and speed scrabble would not be half as fun without them.aah, boa, dot, fun, ick, log, oca, pyx, sos, was, aal, bob and 342 more...
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Two years
Okay, I admit it. I made a list of words my daughter knew when she was two years old.
bat, baba, a, abalone, about, acorn, adrienne, after, again, airplane, alison, all and 694 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
Tweets
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missanthropist Zincali More, yet, but. Jul 22, 2008
oroboros Just before sunrise, after everyone discovered themselves squarely on the bus, and the doors firmly shut, the man behind the wheel turned to them and said, "This can prove to be a long journey, as long, in fact, as you can imagine it to be, and once we get started there are those among you who will begin to move up and down the aisle offering to provide travel instructions and motion remedies. I will be too involved driving this vehicle to ever address you so directly again, so just let me now offer you this tip for the journey: Either stay alert, or take a laxative."
--Jan Cox Nov 14, 2007