bus

Meanings

Noun

• A motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads.
• An electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components.
• Part of a MIRV missile, having on-board motors used to deliver the warhead to a target.
• An ambulance.

Verb

• To transport via a motor bus.
• To transport students to school, often to a more distant school for the purposes of achieving racial integration.
• To travel by bus.
• To clear meal remains from.
• To work at clearing the remains of meals from tables or counters; to work as a busboy.

Related

Similar words

• electrical bus, busbar, digit trunk
• autobus, coach, loser cruiser, motorbus, multibus, omnibus, Shillibeer

Narrower meaning words

• booze bus
• [[w:Bus_(computing)
• computer bus]]
• short bus

Origin

• . Formerly often spelt 'bus. The electrical sense is derived from figurative application of the automotive sense.