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bus

/bʌs/noun, verb1 syllable

Bus means: a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport.

Synonyms for bus17

noun, as in a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport

autobus, coach, charabanc, double-decker, jitney, motorbus, motorcoach, omnibus, passenger vehicle

noun, as in a car that is old and unreliable

jalopy, heap

noun, as in the topology of a network whose components are connected by a busbar

bus topology

noun, as in an electrical conductor that makes a common connection between several circuits

busbar

also used for bus

loser cruiser, Shillibeer, digit trunk, electrical bus

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What does bus mean?7

noun

1

a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport“he always rode the bus to work”

2

a car that is old and unreliable“the fenders had fallen off that old bus”

3

the topology of a network whose components are connected by a busbar

4

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”

verb

1

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

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with bus?7

one syllable

two syllables

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Bus in a sentence

  • If it should rain tomorrow, we would go by bus.AlanF_US
  • If you had missed that bus, you might not be here now.CK
  • It's too far to walk to the station, so let's take a bus.CK
  • One minute earlier, and they could have caught the bus.Jesse
  • Getting to the bus stop, he found the bus had left.Dejo
  • While getting off the bus, she heard her name called.gin
  • When riding a bus or a train, you need to pay the fare._undertoad
  • Some people went by bus, and others by train.CM

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Forms of bus

as a noun

plural
buses

as a verb

past tense
bussed
past participle
bussed
present participle
busing
third-person singular
buses