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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
busses
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At Third Avenue, two turning busses were stopped in the middle of the intersection.
▪ They plunged into lakes, crashed into busses, flipped over like turtles or got jammed between lampposts.
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busses

n. 1 (bus lang=en nodot=1) ((alternative spelling of buses lang=en nocap=1 nodot=1)). 2 (plural of buss English) vb. 1 (en-third-person singularbus), (alternative spelling of buses English) 2 (en-third-person singular of: buss)

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busses

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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)]

Usage examples of "busses".

Gomblick said and looked up at the massive latticework of power busses that led to the ion cannons.

The ceiling was nearly fifty meters high and thigh-thick power busses reached up both sides to the four ion cannons of the main drive.

If they've taken down the main busses, though, we canna reset from here.

They look just like all the rest of the busses and since there's a gap there they look totally normal.

You'd have to get out the schematic and look for busses that aren't supposed to be there.

From big snorting busses tourists were pouring into the hotel, and more tourists were pouring out into other enormous busses spouting black fumes.

In the noisy central plaza amid food stalls and small open shops, half a dozen empty busses were lined up, and groups of sightseers were strolling about, shepherded by guides.

The pileup of busses, the tourists led about in clusters by guides, did not bother him here.

Maneuvering the car past a pileup of snorting busses, Pasternak almost shouted, "Not much, not my field.

The junction is cluttered with ambulance busses heading the other way.

Vehicles are rolling across as before - tanks, busses, APCs, self-propelled guns, fuel trucks - but near the middle, on one side, stands a stark naked stout man, fighting with soldiers.

They trudge up the steep hill, where busses, trucks, and cars go by in a great racket, belching fumes.

Looking up at the sound and seeing the blinking lights added "And maybe a few busses, too.

Now that the landings had started, they couldn't risk putting a plane up to fly them anywhere, and so had to wait for the busses to arrive from Churchill to carry them back.

The main routes were covered using trains or busses supplied by various governments, but getting from one mode of conveyance to another usually meant a trip across some town or other.