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Vehicle for schoolkids
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bus
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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). ...
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.