busnoun詞源 1/bʌs/

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  automotivetransportvehiclesA motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads.

  • I'm on the bus.
  • I can't read on the bus because I get sick.
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  automotivetransportvehiclesA motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads.

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  datedAny motorized vehicle, such as a motorbike or car.

  • “Excuse me,” said the stranger, who turned out to be a youth in motorcycling kit, “but could you give me a hand with my bus?”
  • It had to be something with only two cylinders, if the whole ignition was to be put out of action with one needle: that is, a Morgan, a Belsize-Bradshaw, or a motorbike. He probably avoided the bike on the grounds of exposure to weather, and chose the Morgan as the next most handy and numerous two-cylinder ’bus.
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  businesselectrical-engineeringelectricityAn electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components.

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  Part of a MIRV missile, having on-board motors used to deliver the warhead to a target.

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  slangAn ambulance.

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  slanggovernmentmilitarypoliticsAn aeroplane.

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  computingengineeringmathematicsA network topology with each computer connected to a single cable.

busverb詞源 1/bʌs/

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  automotivetransportvehiclesTo transport via a motor bus.

  • Because the new language school of Fu Jen University in the nearby city of Hsinchu was not yet completed, we were bused with other aspiring students of Chinese language to a farming village called Kuanhsi (Guanxi: West Pass), nestled against the tea growing hills of Hsinchu county.
  • Machine guns are the most effective form of ‘election campaigning’, but the occupiers appear to also be bussing in ‘voters’ from the Russian Federation, and ‘registering total strangers in the homes of people forced to flee after the Russian invasion.
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  automotivetransportvehiclesTo transport students to school, often to a more distant school for the purposes of achieving racial integration.

  • But if you ask me to bus my children / I hope the cops take down your name
  • ...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.
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  automotivetransportvehiclesTo travel by bus.

busverb詞源 2

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  To clear meal remains from.

  • He bussed tables as the restaurant emptied out.
  • He was hired to bus tables, but after a few incidents they moved him to the kitchen.
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  To work at clearing the remains of meals from tables or counters; to work as a busboy.

  • He’s been bussing for minimum wage.