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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport; "he always rode the bus to work" [syn: bus, autobus, coach, charabanc, double-decker, jitney, motorbus, motorcoach, omnibus, passenger vehicle]
2: the topology of a network whose components are connected by a busbar [syn: bus topology, bus]
3: an electrical conductor that makes a common connection between several circuits; "the busbar in this computer can transmit data either way between any two components of the system" [syn: busbar, bus]
4: a car that is old and unreliable; "the fenders had fallen off that old bus" [syn: bus, jalopy, heap] v
1: send or move around by bus; "The children were bussed to school"
2: ride in a bus
3: remove used dishes from the table in restaurants

Merriam Webster's

I. noun (plural buses; also busses) Usage: often attributive Etymology: short for omnibus Date: circa 1909 1. a. a large motor vehicle designed to carry passengers usually along a fixed route according to a schedule b. automobile 2. a small hand truck 3. a. bus bar b. a set of parallel conductors in a computer system that forms a main transmission path 4. a spacecraft or missile that carries one or more detachable devices (as warheads) II. verb (bused; also bussed; busing; also bussing) Date: circa 1909 intransitive verb 1. to travel by bus 2. to work as a busboy transitive verb 1. to transport by bus 2. a. clear 4d <bus dishes> b. to remove dirty dishes from <bus tables> III. abbreviation business

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. (pl. buses or US busses) 1 a large passenger vehicle, esp. one serving the public on a fixed route. 2 colloq. a motor car, aeroplane, etc. 3 Computing a defined set of conductors carrying data and control signals within a computer. --v. (buses or busses, bussed, bussing) 1 intr. go by bus. 2 tr. US transport by bus, esp. to promote racial integration. Phrases and idioms: bus lane a part of a road's length marked off mainly for use by buses. bus shelter a shelter from rain etc. beside a bus stop. bus station a centre, esp. in a town, where (esp. long-distance) buses depart and arrive. bus-stop 1 a regular stopping-place of a bus. 2 a sign marking this. Etymology: abbr. of OMNIBUS

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bus Bus, n. [Abbreviated from omnibus.] An omnibus. [Colloq.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(buses, busses, bussing, bussed) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. Note: The plural form of the noun is 'buses'. The third person singular of the verb is 'busses'. American English uses the spellings 'buses', 'busing', 'bused' for the verb. 1. A bus is a large motor vehicle which carries passengers from one place to another. Buses drive along particular routes, and you have to pay to travel in them. He missed his last bus home... They had to travel everywhere by bus. N-COUNT: also by N 2. When someone is bussed to a particular place or when they bus there, they travel there on a bus. On May Day hundreds of thousands used to be bussed in to parade through East Berlin... To get our Colombian visas we bussed back to Medellin... Essential services were provided by Serbian workers bussed in from outside the province. VERB: be V-ed adv/prep, V adv/prep, V-ed, also V n adv/prep 3. In some parts of the United States, when children are bused to school, they are transported by bus to a school in a different area so that children of different races can be educated together. Many schools were in danger of closing because the children were bused out to other neighborhoods. VERB: usu passive, be V-ed adv/prep • busing The courts ordered busing to desegregate the schools.

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