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Bus   /bəs/   Listen
Bus

noun
(pl. buses, busses)
1.
A vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport.  Synonyms: autobus, charabanc, coach, double-decker, jitney, motorbus, motorcoach, omnibus, passenger vehicle.
2.
The topology of a network whose components are connected by a busbar.  Synonym: bus topology.
3.
An electrical conductor that makes a common connection between several circuits.  Synonym: busbar.
4.
A car that is old and unreliable.  Synonyms: heap, jalopy.
verb
(past bused; past part. bused or bussed; pres. part. busing or bussing)
1.
Send or move around by bus.
2.
Ride in a bus.
3.
Remove used dishes from the table in restaurants.



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"Bus" Quotes from Famous Books



... meeting Sir Walter in the flesh could not have been greater. The man nodded. "Think I'd tell yer a lie? I do a bit of reading myself in the old 'bus there"-he jerked a thumb—"I've got some books now. Would yer like ...
— The Fortunate Youth • William J. Locke
... motor-bus reluctantly slackens and stops. Not the differential brake, nor the foot-brake, has arrested the motor-bus, but the invisible brake of public opinion, acting by administrative transmission. There is not a policeman in sight. Theoretically, the motor-'bus ...
— The Author's Craft • Arnold Bennett
... Humph! Pipes done froze last night, an' bus' loose this mo'nin', and fill the kitchen range with water an' bus' loose again. No plumber here yit. Made this breakfuss on the gas-stove. That's half-froze, tew. I tell you, ma'am, you're lucky to git your coffee nohow. Better take it before it ...
— The Cup of Fury - A Novel of Cities and Shipyards • Rupert Hughes
... Pierre-latte, where it was pitch dark as we got out, and raining heavily. To our dismay we saw no sign of either omnibus or carriage. However, a man was coming up to us in a leisurely way with a broken lantern, and he explained that the "'bus had not come because it was raining." He led us to a very queer—apparently deserted—hotel, where the getting of sheets for the narrow beds seemed to be an almost insurmountable difficulty; and as to cases for the pillows, in sheer despair of ever getting any, we had to use clean towels ...
— Philip Gilbert Hamerton • Philip Gilbert Hamerton et al
... It was mesilf that plundered three offices, each a hundred miles from the ither, on the same night and burned up an old man, his wife and siven children that vintured to dispoot me will. I've been in the bus'ness iver since the year one and me home is Murthersville at the head of Murthersville Creek in ...
— The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters • Edward S. Ellis


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