bus
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: automotive
business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
government
mathematics
military
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
physics
politics
sciences
transport
vehicles
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ep-der.
Proto-Italic *opnis
Latin omnis
Latin omnibuslbor.
French omnibusbor.
English omnibusclip.
English bus
Clipping of omnibus. Superseded earlier 'bus, where the apostrophe indicated a clipping. The shift in spelling likely reflects the fact that modern speakers no longer perceive this term as a clipping. The electrical sense is derived from figurative application of the automotive sense.
Inflected forms:
form: buses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: busses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: 'bus
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: buss
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: busses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: busing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bussing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bused
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bussed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bussed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads.
pos: noun
examples: I'm on the bus.
I can't read on the bus because I get sick.
gloss: A motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
gloss: Any motorized vehicle, such as a motorbike or car.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dated
examples: “Excuse me,” said the stranger, who turned out to be a youth in motorcycling kit, “but could you give me a hand with my bus?”
It had to be something with only two cylinders, if the whole ignition was to be put out of action with one needle: that is, a Morgan, a Belsize-Bradshaw, or a motorbike. He probably avoided the bike on the grounds of exposure to weather, and chose the Morgan as the next most handy and numerous two-cylinder ’bus.
gloss: An electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components.
pos: noun
gloss: Part of a MIRV missile, having on-board motors used to deliver the warhead to a target.
pos: noun
gloss: An ambulance.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: An aeroplane.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A network topology with each computer connected to a single cable.
pos: noun
gloss: To transport via a motor bus.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Because the new language school of Fu Jen University in the nearby city of Hsinchu was not yet completed, we were bused with other aspiring students of Chinese language to a farming village called Kuanhsi (Guanxi: West Pass), nestled against the tea growing hills of Hsinchu county.
Machine guns are the most effective form of ‘election campaigning’, but the occupiers appear to also be bussing in ‘voters’ from the Russian Federation, and ‘registering total strangers in the homes of people forced to flee after the Russian invasion.
The ANC has accused the IFP of bussing in voters from other wards to vote during the recent Newcastle Municipality by-election won by the IFP.
gloss: To transport students to school, often to a more distant school for the purposes of achieving racial integration.
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
examples: But if you ask me to bus my children / I hope the cops take down your name
...to strike down Detroit's federal court order to bus students across school district lines for the purpose of desegregation and therefore nullify many busing programs throughout the country.
gloss: To travel by bus.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: address bus
Airbus
airbus
and then everyone on the bus clapped
articulated bus
baht bus
banana bus
bangbus
battle bus
battlebus
bendy bus
boo-boo bus
bookbus
Boris bus
busable
busbar
bus bar
bus boy
bus bridge
bus buddy
bus bulb
bus captain
bus conductor
bus conductress
bus driver
bus duct
bus factor
bus fare
busful
bus girl
busgirl
bus-holder
busjacking
bus-keeper
bus lane
busless
buslike
bus line
busload
busman
bus mastering
busmate
bus mile
bus ministry
bus pass
bus plunge
bus rapid transit
bus replacement service
bus route
bus shelter
bussick
bus stand
bus station
bus stop
bus stop chicane
bus-stop flight
bussy
bustaurant
bus test
bustitute
bustitution
bus topology
bus trap
bus war
busway
catch the bus
cheese bus
chicken bus
city bus
citybus
commuter bus
control bus
corporation bus
data bus
double-decker bus
drive the porcelain bus
e-bus
electric bus
enterprise service bus
face like the back end of a bus
frontside bus
front-side bus
gyrobus
helibus
horse bus
how do I get to the bus station
kneeling bus
like the back end of a bus
London bus
metrobus
microbus
minibus
miss the bus
multibus
national school bus chrome
on the other bus
open-top bus
owl bus
park the beef bus in tuna town
park the bus
party bus
pedibus
peripheral bus
playbus
porcelain bus
public utility bus
put on a bus
railbus
ride the short bus
satellite bus
school bus
school bus yellow
shuttle bus
sleeper bus
spacecraft bus
splitter bus
stage bus
straddling bus
struggle bus
superbus
system bus
taxibus
telebus
the wheels came off the bus
the wheels fell off the bus
throw under a bus
throw under the bus
tour bus
transit bus
trolleybus
trolley bus
walking bus
walking school bus
waterbus
water bus
where does this bus go
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