ALL meanings of bus
bus
B b - countable noun bus A bus is a large motor vehicle which carries passengers from one place to another. Buses drive along particular routes, and you have to pay to travel in them. 3
- verb bus When someone is bussed to a particular place or when they bus there, they travel there on a bus. 3
- verb bus In some parts of the United States, when children are bused to school, they are transported by bus to a school in a different area so that children of different races can be educated together. 3
- noun bus a large motor vehicle designed to carry passengers between stopping places along a regular route 3
- noun bus of or relating to a bus or buses 3
- noun bus a car or aircraft, esp one that is old and shaky 3
- noun bus the part of a MIRV missile payload containing the re-entry vehicles and guidance and thrust devices 3
- noun bus a platform in a space vehicle used for various experiments and processes 3
- verb bus to travel or transport by bus 3
- verb bus to transport (children) by bus from one area to a school in another in order to create racially integrated classes 3
- abbreviation BUS business 3
- noun bus a large, long motor vehicle designed to carry many passengers, usually along a regular route; omnibus 3
- noun bus an automobile 3
- noun bus a heavy copper bar, strap, or other similar conductor that is not insulated, usually carries a large current, and connects many electrical circuits 3
- verb transitive bus to transport by bus; specif., to transport (children) by busing 3
- verb transitive bus in a restaurant, cafeteria, etc., to clear dirty dishes from 3
- intransitive verb bus to go by bus 3
- intransitive verb bus to do the work of a busboy 3
- noun bus A bus is a data path that connects to a number of devices, such as that on a computer's circuit board or backplane. 3
- noun bus passenger vehicle 1
- noun bus computer: connector 1
- transitive verb bus convey by bus 1
- intransitive verb bus travel by bus 1
- noun plural bus a large motor vehicle, having a long body, equipped with seats or benches for passengers, usually operating as part of a scheduled service; omnibus. 1
- noun plural bus a similar horse-drawn vehicle. 1
- noun plural bus a passenger automobile or airplane used in a manner resembling that of a bus. 1
- noun plural bus any vehicle operated to transport children to school. 1
- noun plural bus a low, movable filing cabinet. 1
- noun plural bus Electricity.. Also called bus bar, busbar [buhs-bahr] /ˈbʌsˌbɑr/ (Show IPA). a heavy conductor, often made of copper in the shape of a bar, used to collect, carry, and distribute powerful electric currents, as those produced by generators. 1
- noun plural bus Computers. a circuit that connects the CPU with other devices in a computer. 1
- verb with object bus to convey or transport by bus: to bus the tourists to another hotel. 1
- verb with object bus to transport (pupils) to school by bus, especially as a means of achieving socioeconomic or racial diversity among students in a public school. 1
- verb without object bus to travel on or by means of a bus: We bused to New York on a theater trip. 1
- idioms bus throw under the bus. throw (def 57). 1
- noun bus Emil, Jr ("Bus") 1922–1997, U.S. yacht racer and government official. 1
- noun Definition of bus in Technology (architecture, networking) A set of electrical conductors (wires, PCB tracks or connections in an integrated circuit) connecting various "stations", which can be functional units in a computer or nodes in a network. A bus is a broadcast channel, meaning that each station receives every other station's transmissions and all stations have equal access to the bus. Various schemes have been invented to solve the problem of collisions: multiple stations trying to transmit at once, e.g. CSMA/CD, bus master. The term is almost certainly derived from the electrical engineering term "bus bar" - a substantial, rigid power supply conductor to which several connections are made. This was once written "'bus bar" as it was a contraction of "omnibus bar" - a connection bar "for all", by analogy with the passenger omnibus - a conveyance "for all". There are busses both within the CPU and connecting it to external memory and peripheral devices. The data bus, address bus and control signals, despite their names, really constitute a single bus since each is useless without the others. The width of the data bus is usually specified in bits and is the number of parallel connectors. This and the clock rate determine the bus's data rate (the number of bytes per second which it can carry). This is one of the factors limiting a computer's performance. Most current microprocessors have 32-bit busses both internally and externally. 100 or 133 megahertz bus clock rates are common. The bus clock is typically slower than the processor clock. Some processors have internal busses which are wider than their external busses (usually twice the width) since the width of the internal bus affects the speed of all operations and has less effect on the overall system cost than the width of the external bus. Various bus designs have been used in the PC, including ISA, EISA, Micro Channel, VL-bus and PCI. Other peripheral busses are NuBus, TURBOchannel, VMEbus, MULTIBUS and STD bus. See also bus network. 1
- noun bus (automotive) A motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads. 0
- noun bus An electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components. 0
- noun bus (Slang) (medical industry) An ambulance. 0
- verb bus (Transitive Verb) (automotive, transport) To transport via a motor bus. 0
- verb bus (Transitive Verb) (automotive, transport, chiefly US) To transport students to school, often to a more distant school for the purposes of achieving racial integration. 0
- verb bus (Intransitive Verb) (automotive, transport) To travel by bus. 0
- verb bus (Transitive Verb) (US, food service) To clear meal remains from. 0
- verb bus (Intransitive Verb) (US, food service) To work at clearing the remains of meals from tables or counters; to work as a busboy. 0