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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bus
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a car/bus/train etc ride
▪ The resort is a short bus ride away from the hotel.
a car/plane/bus etc journey
▪ the six-hour train journey to London
a coach/bus/boat trip
▪ They took a boat trip to see the seals.
a night train/bus/flight
▪ I took the night train to Fort William.
a railway/train/bus timetable
a taxi/bus/truck etc driver
▪ Car drivers face a new daily charge to enter the capital.
a train/bus/coach ticket
▪ I’ve lost my train ticket.
bendy bus
bus lane
bus pass
bus pass
▪ You can buy a cheap one-day bus pass.
bus passengers
▪ Bus passengers are facing higher fares.
bus shelter
bus station
bus stop
bus/coach/car etc travel
▪ The price is £98, inclusive of coach travel.
bus/train/air/cab fare
▪ Air fares have shot up by 20%.
by car/train/bus/taxi etc
▪ They travelled to Chicago by train.
come by car/train/bus etc
▪ Will you be coming by train?
courtesy bus/taxi/car/phone etc
▪ The hotel runs a courtesy bus from the airport.
▪ Most reviewers receive a courtesy copy of the book.
crash a car/bus/plane etc
▪ He was drunk when he crashed the car.
ferry/bus terminal
go by bus/train/car etc
▪ It’ll be quicker to go by train.
miss the train/bus etc
▪ I overslept and missed the train.
passengers get on/off a bus/plane etc
▪ The bus stopped and half the passengers got off.
ride a busAmerican English
▪ Ann rides the bus to work.
shuttle bus
▪ A shuttle bus operates to and from the beach of San Benedetto.
the school bus
walking bus
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
local
▪ The project is a good example of co-operation between a preserved railway and a local bus company.
▪ Convenient for the local bus service, shops and bars.
▪ Two of the 16-bit slots have local bus extensions.
▪ Its capital is Tetouan, eleven miles from M'Diq and reached by local bus, taxi or excursion coach.
▪ They found their local bus service a poor substitute.
▪ The stations will be rebuilt with high-level platforms, new buildings and convenient interchange with local bus routes.
▪ He also became a great favourite with the occupants of the local school bus, which passed his garden gate twice daily.
▪ Recently, my wife was on a local bus with a lot of teenage girls coming home from school.
■ NOUN
company
▪ The project is a good example of co-operation between a preserved railway and a local bus company.
▪ In mass transit, private bus companies spend considerable sums to influence legislatures, to get and keep their contracts.
▪ Since 1987 it has emerged as the number one buyer of privatised bus companies, picking up operators from Inverness to Hampshire.
▪ The case studies will be undertaken to establish how a bus company operates from the viewpoint of its management and organisation.
▪ So will local authority bus companies.
▪ Councillors are desperate to attract the supermarket chain to a site in Grange Road occupied by the Caldaire bus company.
▪ Many bus companies provide advantageous fare tickets especially for tourists.
▪ Amendment No. 4 would limit to two companies the number of bus companies which one purchaser could buy.
depot
▪ Many urban homeless were seeking refuge in subway stations and bus depots.
▪ Projects under negotiation include the Manggarai Integrated Terminal, a giant inter-city bus depot south of Jakarta.
▪ There is a bus depot at the rear of the terminal.
▪ Twenty-eight Brethren worshiped there, in a large bare rented room on the second floor of the bus depot.
▪ The supermarket scheme will force Caldaire to move the United bus depot to another site.
▪ His interest was in opening the nightclub next to the theater, in the abandoned Trailways bus depot.
▪ Transport Organise trouble-free transport to and from the railway station, airport, or bus depot.
driver
▪ Accusations have been made that bus drivers already flout speed limits on the estate.
▪ This bus driver has driven us to the promised land.
▪ After several decades of cyclists being terrorised by the bus drivers, the seeds of a counter-movement are taking shape.
▪ The bus driver was late picking up the team from the hotel.
▪ Public transport in Caracas was not affected after 35,000 subway conductors and public bus drivers voted not to join the strike.
▪ State and local governments hire teachers, bus drivers, police, and firefighters.
▪ The bus driver washed the windows as a classical music tape played from his dashboard.
▪ Also patron of bus drivers, motorists, porters, travelers, truck drivers; he is invoked against nightmares.
fare
▪ A computer is the only way he could weigh up the effect of the bus fare factor.
▪ Through his twice weekly plasma sales, Willingham has helped Scheard and others buy clothes and food or pay bus fare.
▪ Their bus fares are paid, but I suspect that they walked.
▪ She will come to Indianapolis later, as Soon as there is money enough to pay for bus fare.
▪ She would walk, in lashing rain, a howling wind, rather than pay a bus fare.
▪ She could not afford the bus fare to see a doctor, much less his fee.
▪ Unable to afford bus fares, she walked to interviews.
journey
▪ The bus journey alone is eloquent of class inequality.
▪ Sixteen of us flew into Delhi - and a fifteen hour bus journey took us up into the mountains.
▪ One of my own compensations is the bus journey into town.
▪ Iron rations were issued for the train or bus journey.
▪ The evidence of the bus journey, however, painted a totally different picture.
▪ Another, on his first bus journey, noted down the name of a shop as a landmark for the return trip.
▪ Unfortunately, the 12.35 a.m. tram journey on route 16/18 was not replaced by a corresponding bus journey from Westminster to Purley.
▪ To pay for their four-day bus journey to the south, her parents had to sell everything they owned.
lane
▪ A report by development services director Stephen Tapper says bus lanes produce considerable time savings by allowing public transport unrestricted access.
▪ We don't want bus lanes on motorways and we don't want traffic jams.
▪ They spent their time hiding behind low stone walls and leaping out at motorists travelling in bus lanes.
▪ Extensive bus lane and priority traffic signalling is approved for Manchester.
▪ The successful firm will also have to provide a contraflow bus lane for the authority.
▪ Because the council has turned the whole damn place into a bus lane and you can't move any more.
pass
▪ I can't even get a bus pass.
▪ They may soon be getting free bus passes but they know how to rock.
▪ I got a social worker and she suggested I get a bus pass, so I could get to town.
▪ Townspeople are being asked to sign a petition to help save the bus passes of Langbaurgh's 22,000 pensioners and disabled.
▪ All the aggravation about replacing by bus pass, credit cards and library cards etc, all because I was thoughtless.
▪ Free bus passes offered to parents in return for acting as supervisors.
▪ Bus pass reprieve: Langbaurgh pensioners' free bus passes have been given a reprieve until the end of April.
passenger
▪ Analysis of accidents involving bus passengers in future years will be undertaken.
▪ In the past year the first phase of the analysis of bus passenger casualties highlighted in the 1991 Plan has been undertaken.
▪ Without scaremongering, we fear very much for the needs of bus passengers.
▪ I hope that Hon. Members will confine themselves to talking about bus passengers.
▪ Reductions in bus passenger and car rear seat passenger casualties have contributed in large degree to this decrease.
▪ The changes would have a detrimental effect on bus passengers.
▪ The evidence is that when free concessionary travel was withdrawn fewer trips were made and there were fewer elderly bus passenger casualties.
ride
▪ It was a rare family that even bothered to take the short bus ride to the sea.
▪ Some have long bus rides to and from school, and are exhausted by the end of the day.
▪ But on the bus ride home he resolved to do one thing.
▪ It also gave Catholic a chance for its first bus ride to a game when it plays at Widener.
▪ The larger town of Keszthely, on Lake Balaton, is a short bus ride away from Heviz and easily reached.
▪ He is working with filmmaker Aaron Yamaguchi on a documentary about SlamAmerica, a poetry bus ride across the country.
▪ No one carries more than about $ 1, enough for a train or bus ride and a phone call.
▪ They will fly to Buffalo, then take a two-hour bus ride to Olean.
route
▪ It was thoughtful of Rufus because it's on the bus route.
▪ There will be interchange here with Vogtlandbahn services and two bus routes.
▪ Which of them is nearest to a bus route?
▪ Pre-war poster for Circular bus route 22, which replaced the Layton and Central Drive trams in 1936.
▪ But as shopping habits changed many traders shut up shop and moved out blaming recession, traffic restrictions and fewer bus routes.
▪ The stations will be rebuilt with high-level platforms, new buildings and convenient interchange with local bus routes.
▪ No previous experience is required although an interest in bus routes and cold soup would prove useful.
school
▪ The shop assistant, staring idly through his shop-window, saw the school bus approaching its stop, through almost blinding rain.
▪ A field of enormous white microwave dishes, each large enough to cradle a school bus, is set on a hill.
▪ School route: Durham county council has reminded school bus drivers that they should not use the narrow Roundhill Road route.
▪ Despite the day, a school bus was lined up in front of the museum.
▪ The school bus was late, so Anna was on time.
▪ The camp rented a school bus and drove them home north along the Blue Ridge Parkway.
▪ On Tuesday he had a temper tantrum on the school bus and then kicked the school secretary.
▪ They reminded me of three little schoolboys I had just seen earlier this morning, waiting for the school bus.
service
▪ However, a bus service offers an alternative if the going proves too taxing.
▪ The Metro-North railroad said it was operating bus service on its Bainbury branch.
▪ Since deregulation of bus services some routes may have been altered or replaced.
▪ There is an hourly bus service during the day from the Airport to the Transport Interchange in the city centre.
▪ At the regional scale a much more varied picture of bus services emerges.
▪ The role of the bus becomes much more important if rail services disappear and are to be replaced by bus services.
shelter
▪ A bus shelter feet away was blown to bits.
▪ Damien writhed in anger as he stood penned in the bus shelter like an animal, with this herd of obnoxious Cockneys.
▪ When they're still young, girls hang around bus stations, leisure centres, bus shelters or each other's doorsteps.
▪ We will, however, investigate the options for altering the layout of the present advertising bus shelter.
▪ We propose to have a meeting with Adshel with respect to the two bus shelters.
▪ The traffic had started to move more freely now and he walked to the bus shelter at the roadside, and waited.
▪ It was starting to rain, so the three of us sat in a bus shelter.
▪ At a quarter to three I was in position behind the grime-sprayed glass of a bus shelter on the Banbury Road.
shuttle
▪ A daytime shuttle bus operates 6 days a week to the village.
▪ C., will deploy a fuel cell-driven shuttle bus using methanol as a fuel.
▪ The hotel is air-conditioned and offers a complimentary shuttle bus to the nearby Equador beach.
▪ A courtesy shuttle bus runs to and from the Ally Pally.
▪ Parmenter took the Agency shuttle bus back to Langley.
▪ Use the free shuttle bus to the show.
▪ Private vehicles are prohibited in the area, which is served by a shuttle bus.
station
▪ The 1770s house had become a boarding house and the eighteenth-century garden paved over as the city bus station.
▪ Police are also checking bus stations and airports.
▪ She was headed for the bus station, I thought, and from there back to the Amtrak station in Denver.
▪ Buses departing from the present bus station to be to the south only.
▪ I went to sit in the bus station and think this over.
▪ The bus station was similarly desolate, while the cinema, cultural centre, public baths and a hospital have closed.
▪ The bus station was crowded to the doors.
stop
▪ At Wandsworth, it was a seven-minute walk from the bus stop to the end of Varney Street.
▪ A handful of zealots at bus stops manipulates Belfast workers who are freshly aware of possible bombings on urban streets.
▪ I navigated Jan and Darren to the bus stop.
▪ The bus stop was only across the street.
▪ Mike ran down the road to the bus stop.
▪ Additional troops would be stationed at bus stops and in public places, especially in Jerusalem.
▪ At the bus stop he looked hopefully for Gabriel.
▪ One child was cuffed for misbehaving at a bus stop.
terminal
▪ Hotel St Raphael A superior first-class hotel close to the airport bus terminal.
▪ After she had rolled the empty barrels back into the garage, she went inside and called the bus terminal.
▪ The east shore of the bay had no airport landing strip, no railhead, no long-distance bus terminal.
timetable
▪ Eventually I managed to find a page torn from a local bus timetable which showed the Province of Parma.
▪ Much of the information they sent back came from the newspapers and, in one case, the Miami bus timetable.
▪ We have no need to theorise about bus timetables in order to catch a bus into town.
▪ Please note that these itineraries are suggestions only, and are subject to bus timetables and accommodation availability.
tour
▪ Relief watch us from their tour bus.
▪ A few yards way on the nearest path, another tour bus stopped and unleashed its clientele.
▪ They can't even tear up the hotels on this tour because they're sleeping on the tour bus.
▪ Marcos and the rebel leadership rode ahead in a tour bus, with a fleet of police vehicles and helicopters in escort.
▪ And he was just crossing over the dual carriageway to reach the northbound lane when the StatusQuo tour bus ran over him.
▪ I made the decision to get a tour bus big enough for me and my family this time.
trip
▪ We stayed at Dassia, six miles and a 45p bus trip from town.
▪ Jesse Ventura may tour flood damaged areas during his bus trip next week to northwestern Minnesota.
▪ But the school budget is too tight to afford a lot of bus trips.
▪ He took a six-hour bus trip to Oneonta for the funeral.
■ VERB
board
▪ Two Pinochetistas immediately board the bus and furiously upbraid and threaten her.
▪ A black serviceman boarded a city bus and sat in front, remembers Chauvin, who lives in Hayward.
▪ Many Clutton players and supporters were still stunned by Royston Marley's brilliant brace of goals as they boarded the bus home.
▪ She knew that she must board a bus.
▪ They demanded to see her identification before she could board a bus to New York City.
▪ Phillippa Addai, 13, of Islington, north London, was last seen boarding the school bus with friends.
▪ First, she boarded the wrong bus and then she got lost, even when she was on the right one.
catch
▪ And I've got to catch the team bus at twelve-forty-five.
▪ He saw her getting up and going home, taking a suitcase and catching the noon bus tomorrow.
▪ We caught a late bus out of Bordeaux and arrived in darkness.
▪ She was trying to catch the bus that was greedily gobbling up passengers at an angle across the street.
▪ Had set off to catch the bus.
▪ One cool March morning we hiked over to the Mendoza road and caught the twice-weekly bus to Temuco.
▪ I can catch a bus and make a visit.
▪ I used to catch the bus to get there.
drive
▪ I drive a bus to the front door.
▪ He still drives his school bus, and, with each stop, he has a story to tell.
▪ On June 10 Kouao met Manning while he was driving his bus.
▪ He drove a city bus crosstown to pay off debts.
get
▪ I can't even get a bus pass.
▪ Jurors will not get off the bus when they visit the body site Friday.
▪ I didn't know him when he got on the bus.
▪ I made the decision to get a tour bus big enough for me and my family this time.
▪ Try getting off the bus a stop early and briskly walk the rest of the way.
▪ They may soon be getting free bus passes but they know how to rock.
miss
▪ On one occasion when he was late for work I questioned him and he said he had missed the bus.
▪ Rich Brooks looked like a guy who missed the last bus to work.
▪ I suppose to a 12-year-old kid, missing the bus is a pretty big deal.
▪ Anfield defender Mark Wright will travel to join his team-mates later today after missing the team bus travelling to Crystal Palace.
▪ One chilly evening at a crossroads gas station I offered a ride to a young woman who had missed her bus.
▪ Luke Bouverie missed the last bus out of Woodborough to Loxford, so he thumbed a lift.
▪ Their own daughter had lingered at home and missed the bus which she normally would have taken to her job last Sunday.
run
▪ Before the war, a man called Tommy Oliver ran a bus service for the people of Baldersdale.
▪ He looked beautiful on a tennis court; he was a pleasure to look at running for a bus.
▪ Sometimes you catch them laughing their heads off, running for a bus, meeting an unexpected friend.
▪ Dozens of people lined the route, some running alongside the bus, others taking pictures and some throwing things at it.
▪ She left them, running for her bus, fed up with her responsibilities.
▪ Later I would run breathless from the bus stop, expecting to be murdered, beaten, raped.
▪ And just then the policeman saw another man, who was running to catch a bus.
take
▪ It was a rare family that even bothered to take the short bus ride to the sea.
▪ Uncle Shim and I took the bus.
▪ I remembered Father Dmitri's invitation to call at his church and took the bus there during the Sunday midday break.
▪ She had a job in Frisco; she had to take the Greyhound bus at the crossroads and go in every day.
▪ I have also taken the bus to the University, about 8 miles away, where the courses are being held.
▪ We were going to take a bus to Bakersfield and work picking grapes.
▪ I take the bus to Santa Ana, the second city of El Salvador.
▪ He did not have enough money to take the bus.
travel
▪ Adelaida Parra coordinates seven literacy groups each week spending long hours travelling by bus between the distant shanty towns.
▪ I used to travel by bus a lot, so I had a season ticket.
▪ They spent their time hiding behind low stone walls and leaping out at motorists travelling in bus lanes.
▪ Ian and Libby and Joshua will be travelling by bus or car; it might suit Avocado Gerry, though.
▪ The children travel by school bus to Howden, and social events are held in the old school.
▪ Within a few days of term ending, the Roberts travelled by bus to Heathrow.
▪ Some parents say they won't allow their children to travel by bus until the law is changed.
wait
▪ Half past eight comes and it is time to stand outside and wait for the bus.
▪ At least 16 children who had been waiting at the bus stop were questioned by investigators.
▪ I went to Westminster one night in mid-March, and was waiting for my bus just outside the Abbey.
▪ One by one, silently, they head out the door, across the lobby and into the waiting chartered bus.
▪ I had to wait for the bus.
▪ They reminded me of three little schoolboys I had just seen earlier this morning, waiting for the school bus.
▪ It was the kind of place where you waited for a bus that never came.
▪ Well, perhaps Warner had seen her waiting for a bus or hitchhiking to the inaugural and generously gave her a lift.
walk
▪ Alida had been shocked, seeing him with Florence Ames walking from the bus stop towards Dorothea's house.
▪ She walked over to the bus stop and leaned against the bus-shelter glass.
▪ The traffic had started to move more freely now and he walked to the bus shelter at the roadside, and waited.
▪ Mami walked her to the bus stop for her first month at her new school over in the next parish.
▪ In the rich world the equivalent is the husband who drives a car with a wife who walks or catches the bus.
▪ She was walking to her bus stop.
▪ I remember walking through the bus station on my way home.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bus load/car load/truck load etc
bus/tram etc depot
▪ His interest was in opening the nightclub next to the theater, in the abandoned Trailways bus depot.
▪ Many urban homeless were seeking refuge in subway stations and bus depots.
▪ Projects under negotiation include the Manggarai Integrated Terminal, a giant inter-city bus depot south of Jakarta.
▪ The supermarket scheme will force Caldaire to move the United bus depot to another site.
▪ There is a bus depot at the rear of the terminal.
▪ Transport Organise trouble-free transport to and from the railway station, airport, or bus depot.
▪ Twenty-eight Brethren worshiped there, in a large bare rented room on the second floor of the bus depot.
catch a train/plane/bus
▪ I should be able to catch the 12:05 train.
▪ Kevin catches the bus home on Mondays and Wednesdays.
▪ After the debate, they dined on hamburgers and talked sports at a local joint before catching a train back to Washington.
▪ Chris and Patrick had caught a train to London and taken a taxi straight to Richie's flat.
▪ He caught a plane last night.
▪ I could catch a bus back into town.
▪ Maybe she had caught a train to New Rochelle.
▪ Peter arranged a taxi to Victoria for me to catch a train to Gatwick and the last flight to Edinburgh.
▪ The second time I caught a bus to the coast.
▪ They returned to their hotel, packed their bags, and left for Penn Station to catch a train for Washington.
express train/coach/bus
▪ And the brakes feel like they could stop an express train.
▪ He took the ball like an express train and burst through the midfield defence.
▪ It still sounded like an express train in the confines of the small garage.
▪ It was perfect for low-fare express coach services.
▪ The subway trip seemed endless, even on the express train.
▪ Transfer to the Kobe line and catch the 8: 20 express train.
▪ Visitors have to take a local train to visit Delft; the express trains speed by.
hop a plane/bus/train etc
▪ Elated, Daley and Sis hopped a plane for a vacation in the Florida Keys.
▪ He would just hop trains and stuff.
▪ Receiving assurances that there was no ethnic dimension to the role he had been offered, Hoch hopped a plane headed west.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ the bus to the airport
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I didn't know him when he got on the bus.
▪ New security measures, including video surveillance cameras, come into force on the city's bus fleet this week.
▪ Or you can nominate friends, acquaintances, bartenders or bus drivers.
▪ Rich Brooks looked like a guy who missed the last bus to work.
▪ We are sitting in the bus only.
▪ Which of them is nearest to a bus route?
II.verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bus load/car load/truck load etc
bus/tram etc depot
▪ His interest was in opening the nightclub next to the theater, in the abandoned Trailways bus depot.
▪ Many urban homeless were seeking refuge in subway stations and bus depots.
▪ Projects under negotiation include the Manggarai Integrated Terminal, a giant inter-city bus depot south of Jakarta.
▪ The supermarket scheme will force Caldaire to move the United bus depot to another site.
▪ There is a bus depot at the rear of the terminal.
▪ Transport Organise trouble-free transport to and from the railway station, airport, or bus depot.
▪ Twenty-eight Brethren worshiped there, in a large bare rented room on the second floor of the bus depot.
express train/coach/bus
▪ And the brakes feel like they could stop an express train.
▪ He took the ball like an express train and burst through the midfield defence.
▪ It still sounded like an express train in the confines of the small garage.
▪ It was perfect for low-fare express coach services.
▪ The subway trip seemed endless, even on the express train.
▪ Transfer to the Kobe line and catch the 8: 20 express train.
▪ Visitors have to take a local train to visit Delft; the express trains speed by.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In 1989 the town had voted down a petition to close the school and bus the seventeen Granville students to Rochester Elementary.
▪ Mitchell probed the leftover debris on the plates Adrian had bussed.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bus

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

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bus

1832, abbreviation of omnibus (q.v.). The modern English noun is nothing but a Latin dative plural ending. To miss the bus, in the figurative sense of "lose an opportunity," is from 1901, Australian English (OED has a figurative miss the omnibus from 1886). Busman's holiday "leisure time spent doing what one does for a living" (1893) is probably a reference to London bus drivers riding the buses on their days off.

bus

1838, "to travel by omnibus," from bus (n.). Transitive meaning "transport students to integrate schools" is from 1961, American English. Meaning "clear tables in a restaurant" is first attested 1913, probably from the four-wheeled cart used to carry dishes. Related: Bused; busing.

Wiktionary
bus

n. 1 (context automotive English) 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 (context medical industry slang English) An ambulance. vb. 1 (context transitive automotive transport English) To transport via a motor bus. 2 (context transitive automotive transport chiefly US English) To transport students to school, often to a more distant school for the purposes of achieving racial integration. 3 (context intransitive automotive transport English) To travel by bus. 4 (context transitive US food service English) To clear meal remains from. 5 (context intransitive US food service English) To work at clearing the remains of meals from tables or counters; to work as a busboy.

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WordNet
bus

  1. n. a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport; "he always rode the bus to work" [syn: autobus, coach, charabanc, double-decker, jitney, motorbus, motorcoach, omnibus]

  2. the topology of a network whose components are connected by a busbar [syn: bus topology]

  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]

  4. a car that is old and unreliable; "the fenders had fallen off that old bus" [syn: jalopy, heap]

  5. [also: busses (pl)]

bus

  1. v. 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

  4. [also: busses (pl)]

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Wikipedia
Buș

Buş may refer to:

  • Laurenţiu Buş, Romanian footballer playing for FC Oţelul Galaţi
  • Sergiu Buş, Romanian footballer playing for CFR Cluj, brother of Laurenţiu Buş
Bus (computing)

In computer architecture, a bus or buss is a communication system that transfers data between components inside a computer, or between computers. This expression covers all related hardware components (wire, optical fiber, etc.) and software, including communication protocols.

Early computer buses were parallel electrical wires with multiple connections, but the term is now used for any physical arrangement that provides the same logical function as a parallel electrical bus. Modern computer buses can use both parallel and bit serial connections, and can be wired in either a multidrop (electrical parallel) or daisy chain topology, or connected by switched hubs, as in the case of USB.

Bus (disambiguation)

A bus is a vehicle designed to carry passengers. Bus, Buş or Buš may also refer to:

Bus (RATP)

The RATP operates the majority of buses in Paris and a significant number of lines in its suburbs. Other suburban lines are operated by private operators grouped in a consortium known as Optile () an association of 80 private bus operators holding exclusive rights on their lines. There are approximately 4,000 buses serving the Paris region.

Buš (Prague-West District)

''' Buš (Prague-West District) ''' is a village and municipality in Prague-West District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic.

Bus (Bulgarian play)

Bus is a 1980 satirical play by Bulgarian playwright Stanislav Stratiev. It premiered at Sofia's Satirical Theatre om March 29, 1980. In 2007, the play was presented at the festival in Avignon, France in the French title of L' Autobus.

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Usage examples of "bus".

Ann they had both been aboad a bus cruising at eighteen miles an hour along the sixty-lane freeway that ran from Bear Canyon to Pasadena, near the middle of Los Angeles.

Crete, stayed the night in Heraklion, and gone to Agios Georgios next day, by the bi-weekly bus.

I finally solved the all-time killer anagram, after more than a year of working at it in trains and buses and waiting rooms.

The bus stops were built of tall glass tubes, aquaculture cylinders, murky green soups full of algae and fat, sluggish carp.

She went out the hissing doors and, with hundreds of other calm baggageless passengers, she waited for the bus she knew would take her south and into the mountains.

Shape-ups were held in the predawn down by the Vineland courthouse, shadowy brown buses idling in the dark, work and wages posted silently in the windows some mornings Zoyd had gone down, climbed on, ridden out with other newcomers, all cherry to the labor market up here, former artists or spiritual pilgrims now becoming choker setters, waiters and waitresses, baggers and checkout clerks, tree workers, truckdrivers, and framers, or taking temporary swamping jobs like this, all in the service of others, the ones who did the building, selling, buying and speculating.

Whenever possible he tried to sit besher in the bus, read his book out loud to her, give her his cupcake at lunch.

Then he walked to the bus stop, remembering, in spite of himself, Bijou Frank and his first experience of servitude.

The group at the back of the bus must have recognized that they had ribbed Bleer too much, for they dropped further comments concerning Oxotone.

The floating effect came from the hands that dragged him back into the bus, along with Baybrock, Bleer and the senseless drivers.

The service can be erratic and buses are sometimes delayed, but there is a stop at the end of the road and I rarely have to wait more than five minutes.

I had been waiting at the bus stop for twenty minutes when a taxi driver leaned out of his cab to tell me that no buses were running.

It was noticeable that there were no buses on the streets and as I subsequently ascertained from a passerby, the taxi driver was telling the truth.

All buses were off the streets, no underground trains running and no taxis were available.

On buses they talk for the whole journey about their families, their illnesses, their holidays and what is going on at the office.