bus

Shortening of omnibus, from Latin omnibus (“for all, for everybody”); dative plural of omnis (“all”). The electrical sense is derived from figurative application of the automotive sense.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bʌs/, [bɐs], enPR: bŭs

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• (US) IPA^(key): /bʌs/, enPR: bŭs

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• Rhymes: -ʌs

bus (plural buses or busses)

1. (automotive) A motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads.
2. An electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components.
3. (medical industry, slang) An ambulance.

• (electrical conductor): electrical bus, busbar, digit trunk
• (vehicle): autobus, coach, loser cruiser, motorbus, multibus, omnibus

bus (third-person singular simple present busses or buses, present participle bussing or busing, simple past and past participle bussed or bused)

1. (transitive, automotive, transport) To transport via a motor bus.
2. (transitive, automotive, transport, chiefly US) To transport students to school, often to a more distant school for the purposes of achieving racial integration.
   • 2008, Ashley R. Holm, Racial Differences in Student Engagement and Attainment: A Study of Topeka High School, 1939--1984, ProQuest →ISBN, page 23

     ...to strike down Detroit's federal court order to bus students across school district lines for the purpose of desegregation and therefore nullify many busing programs throughout the country.

3. (intransitive, automotive, transport) To travel by bus.
4. (transitive, US, food service) To clear meal remains from.

   He bussed tables as the restaurant emptied out.

5. (intransitive, US, food service) To work at clearing the remains of meals from tables or counters; to work as a busboy.

   He’s been bussing for minimum wage.

The Canadian Oxford Dictionary only presents the spellings buses, busing, and bused, implying that these are the predominant forms in Canada.

• (clear meal remains): busboy

• SBU, UBS, USB, sub, sub-, sub.

bus (plural busse, diminutive bussie)

1. (automotive) bus

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈbus/

Cognate to Spanish buso (“underwater snail”) and Portuguese búzio (“underwater snail”), from Latin būcina (“horn”).

bus m or f (plural bussos)

1. diver

Probably from Old Norse buza (“big wide ship”).

bus m (plural bussos)

1. (archaic) A large sailing ship used in the 12th and 13th centuries, broad of beam and with two or three masts.

Probably from Persian بوس‎ (bus, “kiss”).

bus m (plural busos)

1. (archaic) flattery

Only found in the phrase fer lo bus (“to kiss up”).

Reduction of autobús

bus m (plural busos)

1. bus (vehicle)

Borrowed from English bus.

bus m (plural busos)

1. bus (electrical connector)

bus m

1. bus (motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads)

• autobus

Shortening of omnibus, from French omnibus, from Latin omnibus (“for all”), dative plural of omnis (“all”).

• IPA^(key): /bus/, [b̥us]

bus c (singular definite bussen, plural indefinite busser)

1. bus, coach

• Rhymes: -ʏs
• IPA^(key): /bʏs/

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Shortening of omnibus, from Latin omnibus (“for everything/all”); dative plural of omnis (“all”).

bus m (plural bussen, diminutive busje n)

1. (transport) bus, omnibus (vehicle)
2. (transport, in diminutive) minibus, minivan
3. bus (electrical conductor)

• busbaan
• bestelbus
• schoolbus
• stadsbus
• streekbus

From Old Dutch *bussa, from Proto-Germanic *buhsijǭ, *buhsuz. Compare German Büchse and English box.

bus f (plural bussen, diminutive busje n)

1. container, box, tin
2. bushing

• brievenbus
• broodbus
• busmeester
• drinkbus
• schoolbus

See the etymology of the main entry. Related to etymology 2.

bus

1. first-person singular present indicative of bussen
2. imperative of bussen

• IPA^(key): /bys/
• Homophones: busse, busses, bussent

bus m or f (plural bus)

1. bus

• autobus

Inflected forms.

• IPA^(key): /by/
• Homophones: bu, bue, bues, but, bût

bus

1. first-person singular past historic of boire
2. second-person singular past historic of boire

bus m pl

1. masculine plural of the past participle of boire

• “bus” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Borrowed from English bus.

• IPA^(key): [bˠʊsˠ]

bus m (genitive singular bus, nominative plural busanna)

1. bus
2. (computing) bus

• "bus" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “bus” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
• Entries containing “bus” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.

• IPA^(key): [bʊs]

bùs

1. third-person singular future tense of būti.
2. third-person plural future tense of būti.
3. third-person singular future tense of busti.
4. third-person plural future tense of busti.

• IPA^(key): /byːs/

bus m

1. hole

From Proto-Celtic *bussus, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to swell, bulge”).

bus (gender unknown)

1. (rare, poetic) lip

• “4 bus” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*bussu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 84

bus

1. first-person singular preterite of baithe

Contraction of autobus, borrowed from English bus.

• IPA^(key): /bus/

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bus m anim (diminutive busik)

1. (colloquial) bus

• IPA^(key): /bus/

bus m

1. hole
   • September 2012, Daniela Cortesi, Bônanòta in la Ludla, il Papiro, page 15:

     un sorg e’ cor in priscia int e’ su bus.

     a mouse runs hastily towards its hole.

Borrowed from English bus.

bus m (genitive singular bus, plural busaichean)

1. bus

From Old Irish bus.

bus m (genitive singular buis, plural buis or busan)

1. mouth
2. pout (facial expression)

• (mouth): beul

Shortening of autobús or borrowed from English bus.

• IPA^(key): /bus/

bus m (plural buses)

1. (colloquial) Clipping of autobús; bus

   Synonym: autobús

From the verb busa (“to do mischief”).

• IPA^(key): [bʉ͍ːs]
• Rhymes: -ʉːs

bus n (uncountable)

1. very innocent mischief, prank

   Trick or Treat is often translated with Bus eller godis

2. general noise or trouble made by gangs of youths

• busig
• NetBus

Borrowed from English bus.

• IPA^(key): /bus/

bus

1. bus (vehicle)

• sasakyan
• kotse
• transit

From English bush.

bus

1. bush (remote rural areas)
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 1:25:

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• bus kanaka

From Middle Dutch busch, variant of bosch, from Old Dutch *busc, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

bus n

1. forest

bus m

1. bus