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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



... their disinterested resolution, Sicut a majori bus nostris compertum habemus, omnes ubique propemodum... officium quam fidem deserere maluerunt, vii. 30. Proaeresius, a Christian sophist, refused to accept the partial favor of the emperor Hieronym. in Chron. p. 185, edit. Scaliger. Eunapius ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 2 • Edward Gibbon

... introduce you to Jay, a 'bus-conductor and an idealist. She is not the heroine, but the most constantly apparent woman in this book. I cannot introduce you to a heroine because I have never ...
— This Is the End • Stella Benson

... Frisk, what! you a great man too? My Bus'ness here is only with your Colonel; And I'll be heard, or ...
— Ponteach - The Savages of America • Robert Rogers

... "Bus, bus!" shouted James Antony from the foot of the steps. "Don't be all day binding ladies' favours on your helm, Gerrard, my boy. Get it over; it ain't as ...
— The Path to Honour • Sydney C. Grier

... moved back, most of the way by 'bus, to Liettres, a very pretty village well behind the line and south-west of Aire. Hardly were we settled before we were ordered to move, which we did with no very good grace to St. Hilaire, a much inferior village. Two days later our tactical ...
— The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry • G. K. Rose


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