A bus (motor vehicle). A Londondouble-decker bus . Clipping ofomnibus 'bus
bus (plural buses or busses
( automotive ) motor vehicle fortransporting large numbers ofpeople alongroads .Synonyms: autobus coach loser cruiser motorbus motorcoach omnibus Shillibeer ( obsolete ) Hyponyms: booze bus commuter bus school bus short bus ( chiefly US , Canada ) coach , a bus used for long travels.Anelectrical conductor orinterface serving as acommon connection for two or morecircuits orcomponents .Synonyms: busbar digit trunk electrical bus Hyponym: data bus Part of aMIRV missile , havingon-board motors used to deliver thewarhead to atarget . ( medical industry, slang ) ambulance .( military slang , 1910s–1940s) aeroplane .[ 1] ( networking ) network topology with each computer connected to a singlecable .Descendants
→ Arabic:بَاص ( bāṣ ) ⇒ Burmese:ဘတ်စ်ကား ( bhatcka: ) → Cantonese:巴士 → German:Bus m → Hindi:बस ( bas ) → Irish:bus → Japanese:バス ( basu ) → Hakka:巴士 ( pa-sṳ́ ) → Hokkien:巴士 ( bá-suh ) → Kavalan:basu → Sakizaya:basu → Korean:버스 ( beoseu ) → Kurtöp:བས ( bas ) → Malay:bas → Pashto:بس ⇒ Sanskrit:बसयान ( basayāna ) → Scottish Gaelic:bus → Thai:บัส ( bát ) → Tibetan:འབའ་སེ ( 'ba' se ) → Urdu:بس → Welsh:bws bus (third-person singular simple present busses or buses present participle bussing or busing simple past and past participle bussed or bused
( transitive , automotive , transport ) transport via a motor bus.2024 March 13, Halya Coynash, “Russians with machine guns ensure occupied Ukraine ‘votes’ for Putin”, inHuman Rights in Ukraine. The Information Portal of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group [2] Machine guns are the most effective form of ‘election campaigning’, but the occupiers appear to also bebussing in ‘voters’ from the Russian Federation, and ‘registering total strangers in the homes of people forced to flee after the Russian invasion.
2024 March 14, Clive Ndou, “ANC set to open case against ‘ghost IFP voters’”, inThe Witness [3] The ANC has accused the IFP ofbussing in voters from other wards to vote during the recent Newcastle Municipality by-election won by the IFP.
( transitive , automotive , transport , chiefly US ) 1966 Phils Ochs in Concert :But if you ask me tobus my children / I hope the cops take down your name
2008 Racial Differences in Student Engagement and Attainment: A Study of Topeka High School, 1939--1984 , ProQuest,→ISBN 23 :...to strike down Detroit's federal court order tobus students across school district lines for the purpose of desegregation and therefore nullify many busing programs throughout the country.
( intransitive , automotive , transport ) travel by bus.TheCanadian Oxford Dictionary buses busing bused
Back-formation frombusboy [ 2]
bus (third-person singular simple present busses or buses present participle bussing or busing simple past and past participle bussed or bused
( transitive , US , food service) clear mealremains from.Hebussed tables as the restaurant emptied out.
( intransitive , US , food service) busboy .He’s beenbussing for minimum wage.
^ Lighter, Jonathan (1972 ) “The Slang of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe, 1917-1919: An Historical Glossary”, inAmerican Speech [1] 47 , number1/2 , page26 ^ Bryan A[ndrew] Garner (2022 ) “bus,n. &v.t. ”, inGarner’s Modern English Usage: The Authority on Grammar, Usage, and Style Oxford University Press ,→ISBN page166 , column 2:The verbbus , as aback-formation frombusboy , has the additional meanings ‘to work as a busboy or busgirl’ and ‘to clear dishes from (a table).’ Akin toSaho bus
IPA (key ) : /ˈbus/ [ˈbʊs] Hyphenation:bus bús m (plural buswá f busuusá f
vagina Declension ofbús absolutive bús predicative búsu subjective bús genitive bustí
E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985 ) “bus”, inAn Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English) , University of London,→ISBN bus (plural busse diminutive bussie
( automotive ) bus Cognate toSpanish buso ( “ underwater snail ” ) andPortuguese búzio ( “ underwater snail ” ) , fromLatin būcina ( “ horn ” ) .
bus m or f by sense plural bussos
diver Probably fromOld Norse buza ( “ big wide ship ” ) .
bus m plural bussos
( archaic ) sailing ship used in the 12th and 13th centuries,broad ofbeam and with two or threemasts Probably fromPersian بوس ( bus ,“ kiss ” ) .
bus m plural busos
( archaic ) flattery Only found in the phrasefer lo bus ( “ to kiss up ” ) . Clipping ofautobús
bus m plural busos
bus ( vehicle ) Borrowed fromEnglish bus
bus m plural busos
bus ( electrical connector ) FromItalian bus omnibus French omnibus
bus m
( Luserna ) bus ( vehicle ) Benn rifta darbus ? ―What time does thebus come? bus m inan
bus ( motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads ) Synonym: autobus Declension ofbus (hard masculine inanimate )
bus m inan
( computing ) bus ( an electrical interface connecting two or more components ) Declension ofbus (hard masculine inanimate )
Shortening ofomnibus French omnibus Latin omnibus ( “ for all ” ) , dative plural ofomnis ( “ all ” ) .
bus c singular definite bussen plural indefinite busser
bus coach Shortening ofomnibus Latin omnibus ( “ for everything/all ” ) ; dative plural ofomnis ( “ all ” ) .
bus m plural bussen diminutive busje n
( transport ) bus omnibus ( vehicle ) ( transport , in diminutive) minibus ,minivan bus ( electrical conductor ) → Caribbean Javanese:bis → Papiamentu:bùs → Sranan Tongo:bùs FromMiddle Dutch busse Old Dutch *bussa Proto-West Germanic *buhsā Doublet ofbuks ( “ shotgun ” ) ,box , and pyxis
bus f plural bussen diminutive busje n
acontainer , abox , atin abushing ( chiefly historical ) firearms , such asflintlock andmatchlock guns ( dated , Netherlands ) voluntary sick fund , especially before the introduction of universal health care in the Netherlands in the 1940sPetjo:bus → Indonesian:bis ( “ letterbox, mailbox ” ) See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form. Related to etymology 2.
bus
inflection ofbussen first-person singular present indicative (in case ofinversion )second-person singular present indicative imperative Clipping ofomnibus
bus m or f plural bus
bus Synonym: autobus Inflected forms.
bus
first / second-person singular past historic ofboire bus m pl
masculine plural ofbu IPA (key ) : /bʊs/ IPA (key ) : ( alternative pronunciations, especially for the word of etymology 1 ) /bɪs/ ,/bəs/ ,/bɘs/ ,/bas/ For the pronunciations/bəs/ ,/bɘs/ , comparable toAfrikaans bus Rhymes:-bʊs Hyphenation:bus Sebuahbus yang berwarna biru kuning. Borrowed fromDutch bus omnibus Latin omnibus ( “ for everything/all ” ) ; dative plural ofomnis ( “ all ” ) .
bus
bus ( amotor vehicle fortransporting large numbers ofpeople alongroads ) Onomatopoeic , related toembus
bus
imitation sound of blowingwind ;can be roughly translated aswhoosh Borrowed fromEnglish bus
bus m genitive singular bus nominative plural busanna
bus ( computing ) Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977 ) “bus ”, inFoclóir Gaeilge–Béarla , Dublin: An Gúm,→ISBN “bus ”, inNew English-Irish Dictionary , Foras na Gaeilge,2013–2025 de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959 ) “bus ”, inEnglish-Irish Dictionary , An Gúm( Standard Kankanaey ) IPA (key ) : /ˈbus/ [ˈbos] IPA (key ) : ( parts of Bauko, Sabangan, & Tadian ) /ˈbuh/ [ˈboh] Rhymes:-us ( parts of Bauko, Sabangan, & Tadian ) -uh Syllabification:bus bus
theabundance /plentifulness of water (in wells, rivers, etc.) Morice Vanoverbergh (1933 ) “bus”, inA Dictionary of Lepanto Igorot or Kankanay. As it is spoken at Bauco (Linguistische Anthropos-Bibliothek; XII)[4] →OCLC 104 (Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium .)
bùs
third-person singular future ofbūti third-person plural future ofbūti third-person singular future ofbusti third-person plural future ofbusti Akin toItalian buca bucca French bouche
bus
hole bus
second-person singular imperative ofbies FromProto-Celtic *bussus Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- ( “ to swell, bulge ” ) .
bus (gender unknown )
( rare , poetic ) lip Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019 ), “4 bus ”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language Matasović, Ranko (2009 ) “*bussu-”, inEtymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden:Brill ,→ISBN page84 bus
first-person singular preterite ofbaithe bus IPA (key ) : /ˈbus/ Rhymes:-us Syllabification:bus Clipping ofautobus Calque ofEnglish bus
bus m animal or m inan diminutive busik
( colloquial ) bus ( motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads ) Clipping ofmikrobus
bus m animal or m inan diminutive busik
( colloquial ) van ( motor vehicle used to carry goods or, usually, up to 10 people ) bus inWielki słownik języka polskiego , Instytut Języka Polskiego PANbus in Polish dictionaries at PWNbus m
hole September 2012 , Daniela Cortesi,Bônanòta in la Ludla, il Papiro, page 15:un sorg e’ cor in priscia int e’ subus . a mouse runs hastily towards itshole . FromMiddle Irish bus
bus m genitive singular buis plural buis or busan
mouth Synonym: beul pout ( facial expression ) Borrowed fromEnglish bus
bus m genitive singular bus plural busaichean
bus Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
bus ?
dust Shortening ofautobús English bus
IPA (key ) : /ˈbus/ [ˈbus] Rhymes:-us Syllabification:bus bus m plural buses
Clipping ofautobús ;bus Synonyms: autobús see also Thesaurus:autobús In Spain,bus is a colloquial word and in Latin America it is a formal word. From the verbbusa ( “ make mischief, prank ” ) .
bus n uncountable
(fairly innocent)mischief (by children),pranking bus eller godistrick or treat ("mischief or candy") ( colloquial , chiefly in the definite "buset") criminals (on the lower rungs of the social ladder)att ta fastbuset to catchthe criminals Associated with mischief and pranks by children, with ironic extensions to adults fooling around and criminality.
Borrowed fromEnglish bus clipping ofomnibus French omnibus Latin omnibus ( “ to/for all ” ) .
bus (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜐ᜔ or ᜊᜐ᜔
bus ( vehicle ) Synonym: awtobus bus ( electrical conductor ) The pronunciation/bas/ is commonly used inTaglish speech, especially by younger speakers. “bus ”, inPambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph , Manila,2018 FromEnglish bush
bus
bush (remote rural areas)1989 Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin Jenesis 1:25 :FromMiddle Dutch busch bosch Old Dutch *busc Proto-Germanic *buskaz
bus n
forest (Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium . Particularly: “Same as Dutch "bus", but is it derived from that or shortened from "omnibus" independently?”)
bus m
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