bus

[Bus]

A bus is a long vehicle with many seats. An elementary school student might save a seat on the school bus each morning for her best friend.

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An omnibus.

Noun
a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport; "he always rode the bus to work"

Noun
a car that is old and unreliable; "the fenders had fallen off that old bus"

Noun
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"

Noun
the topology of a network whose components are connected by a busbar

Verb
remove used dishes from the table in restaurants

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Verb
ride in a bus

Verb
send or move around by bus; "The children were bussed to school"


n.
An omnibus.


Bus

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

An omnibus.

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Usage Examples

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

A paparazzo once jumped out of a car and started running backward with me. I slowed down out of courtesy because she started drifting into the street. I reached out my hand and moved her back so she didn't get hit by a bus.

Al Gore, the former vice-president of the United States, lives in a mansion that uses more electricity than the average family's bungalow! David Suzuki rides on a bus that uses more fuel than a Smart car to get across Canada! Oh my God! And this is just the tip of the vanishing iceberg!

I remember once acting really cool on a bus with this girl named Stephanie. When I got home, I realized that I had a really big zit on my forehead. If you have acne problems, you really shouldn't be acting like Don Juan.

I'm physically completely mal-coordinated. My best friend used to make me run for the bus just to give herself a quick, cheap laugh because I definitely don't have that sophisticated cool thing down.

Dad was a bus driver, and when he finished work he would repair cars.

I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.

Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.

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Other Usage Examples

If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.

I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.

Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it.

I'm very unstable there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.

I think I'm a fun flatmate. I'm always cheerful. I go on tour with my band so it's 12 people on one bus and I feel like I'm the one who's happy in the morning. I'm not a chaotic person, but I might slack off on doing the dishes from time to time.

Every day I've got to be thankful that I am alive, and you never know - the cliche is, I guess, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow, so you'd better be at peace with whatever you got going at the moment.

Air travel is the safest form of travel aside from walking even then, the chances of being hit by a public bus at 30,000 feet are remarkably slim. I also have no problem with confined spaces. Or heights. What I am afraid of is speed.

I don't travel anywhere without the PS3 and XBox. There's nothing better to do on long bus trips while on tour.

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