bus

bus1 [ bʌs ] noun count ***

1. ) a large road vehicle with a lot of seats which you pay to travel on, especially one that takes you fairly short distances and stops frequently:

by bus: The children go to school by bus.

take/catch a bus: We took a bus downtown.

miss the bus (=not reach it before it leaves): If we don't leave soon, we'll miss the last bus.

a ) a large road vehicle that you pay to travel in over long distances. British usually coach

2. ) COMPUTING a set of wires that send information from one part of a computer system to another

bus

bus 2 [ bʌs ] (past tense and past participle bused or bussed; present participle bus|ing or bus|sing) verb transitive

1. ) to take someone somewhere by bus:

All 90 visitors were bussed to the airport.

a ) to take children on a school bus to a different area to go to school, so that children from different backgrounds can be educated together

2. ) AMERICAN to remove dirty dishes from the tables in a restaurant:

I used to bus tables in a diner.