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Definition: Bus |
BusNoun1. A vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport; "he always rode the bus to work". 2. 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". 3. A car that is old and unreliable; "the fenders had fallen off that old bus". Verb1. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
Note: Bus \Bus\, noun. [Abbreviated from omnibus.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Bus One of the sets of conductors (wires, PCB tracks or connections in an integrated circuit) connecting the various functional units in a computer. 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, i.e. the number of parallel connectors, and its clock rate determine its 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. Some networks are implemented as a bus at the physical layer, e.g. Ethernet - a one-bit bus operating at 10 (or later 100) megabits per second. 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". More on derivation (http://www.foldoc.org/pub/omnibus.html). (2000-03-20). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Aerospace | In computer operations, a main circuit, channel, or part for the transfer of information. Also called trunk . (references) |
Electrical Engineering | A communal circuit over which data or power is transmitted. Source: European Union. (references) |
Energy | An electrical conductor that serves as a common connection for two or more electrical circuits; may be in the form of rigid bars or stranded conductors or cables. (electrical). (references) |
Literature | Bus A contraction of Omnibus. Of course, Omnibi, as a plural, though sometimes used, is quite absurd. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Post & Telecom | In switching, a common path within an apparatus or station over which signals from a plurality of channels pass, separated by time division. Source: European Union. (references) |
Science | The basic frame of a satellite system that includes the propulsion and stabilization systems but not the instruments or data systems. (references) |
Weather | Also known as spacecraft bus. The portion of the spacecraft that supplies the support functions necessary for the payload to meet allocated system objectives. The support provided normally includes, power, C&DH, attitude knowledge and control, and other functions as necessary to meet objectives. (references) |
| A rubber-tired, self-propelled, manually steered vehicle that is generally designed to transport 30 individuals or more. Bus types include intercity, school and transit. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
This article is about the form of transport. See computer bus or electrical bus for the use of the term in computing and electronics respectively.
A bus is a large wheeled vehicle, intended to carry numerous persons in addition to the driver. The name is a shortened version of omnibus. Historically there were buses before the advent of motor-cars. Horse-drawn buses were common before 1840 in London, Paris, and probably in many other cities. Early in the 20th century a motorized bus was sometimes called an autobus.
A bus
Types
Many variations of buses exist. A normal tourist bus carries about fifty passengers and their luggage, and may be considered the standard bus for long-distance travel. In the United Kingdom it is usual to call such a vehicle a coach.
In buses meant for public transport, luggage space is often sacrificed in order to increase passenger volume, although the exterior is only slightly smaller than that of a tourist bus. Public transportation buses may carry more than one hundred persons if standing passengers are allowed. In western industrialized nations such buses are usually only used for routes within cities or towns, but in some other nations are also used for long inter-city routes.
In some nations of Latin America buses are very important as a primary means of transport and trade within the country.
The double decker is a bus designed in two stories, in order to haul more passengers. Originally employed as a part of the London public transport system, in a distinctive red colour, they now see use all over the world. London's Routemaster, which has been in service since the early 1960s, is an open platform bus that requires a conductor.
Special sightseeing buses are variations of the tourist bus or the double decker and are generally constructed with large windows and/or an open top deck offering the best possible vantage point from inside a vehicle.
Jointed, or articulated buses are yet another permutation for increasing passenger load. Almost singularly found in public transportation use, these buses are so long that they would not ordinarily fit in city traffic. To make them nimble enough, they have been fitted with an extra pair of wheels and a flexible joint (usually located slightly behind the midpoint of the bus, behind the second wheel pair). Some buses have two flexible joints, they are bi-articulated.
Some rare combinations between double decker and jointed buses exist, but are not in common use.
Ultra low floor buses were developed towards the end of the 20th century and can increasingly be found all over the world.
Minibuses are smaller than the ordinary tourist or public transport bus, intended to carry from (about) eight to twenty passengers. Due to smaller size they are often used on routes with few passengers or on lines where the density of departures is very high.
An electric trolleybus is a bus with electric propulsion from overhead wires.
Guided Buses are steered for part or all of their route by a track or rail.
As part of public transport, the schedules of buses often cannot be as well maintained as those of other public transport systems, because buses share the same roads as common traffic. Some cities have tried to counter this by instituting special "bus lanes", where only public transport buses may travel. Sometimes they may also be used by taxies, cycles or motorcycles. Some cities have tidal bus lanes, which only operate during rush hour. Other cities have incorporated busways, which are essentially bus systems that run on special rights-of-way; this is a form of bus rapid transit.
Some buses are termed shuttles, after the shuttle of weaving, because they operate on a fixed route to take passengers back and forth between two terminals.
A neighborhood bus is (at least in the Netherlands, buurtbus) a complementary public transport service with minibus by volunteer drivers in rural areas, where regular public transport is not feasible.
A school bus transports children between their homes and school. In the US a busing system is used to achieve racial desegregation (children do not necessarily go to the nearest school, but to such a school that there is an appropriate racial mix).
Manufacturers
Some manufacturers of buses or bus parts:
Some metropolitan bus systems in the United States are:
- Blue Bird
- Carpenter
- Flxible
- Ford
- Freightliner
- GMC Truck
- International
- Henlys
- KAvZ
- Neoplan
- Mercedes-Benz
- Motor Coach Industries
- PAZ
- Scania
- Setra
- Thomas Built Buses
- Vanhool
- Volvo
- Maryland Transit Administration
- Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas (METRO)
- Delaware Area Rapid Trasit
Plural
The usual plural of bus is "buses". "Busses" is sometimes used, but is also the plural of "buss", a dialectal word for "kiss" or a type of boat.
See also
Bus stop.
External links
- http://www.natransit.com/ - hobby site about buses and trains in North America.
- Busway programs in the Netherlands, bi-articulated bus
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bus."
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Master scheduler controls the data traffic. If data is to be transferred the requesting computer sends a message to the scheduler, which puts the request into a queue. The message contains an identification code which is broadcast to all nodes of the network. The scheduler works out priorities and notifies the receiver as soon as the bus is available. The identified node takes the message and performs the data transfer between the two computers. Having completed the data transfer the bus becomes free for the next request in the scheduler's queue. Bus benefit: any computer can be accessed directly and message can be sent in a relatively simple and fast way. Disadvantage: needs a scheduler to assign frequencies and priorities to organize the traffic.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bus topology."
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In computer architecture, a bus is a subsystem that transfers data or power between computer components inside a computer or between computers. Unlike a point-to-point connection, a bus can logically connect several peripherals over the same set of wires.
Early computer buses were literally parallel electrical buses with multiple connections, but the term is now used for any physical arrangement that provides the same logical functionality as a parallel electrical bus. Modern computer buses can use both parallel and bit-serial connections, and can be wired in either a multidrop (electrical parallel) or daisy chain topology, or connected by switched hubs, as in the case of USB.
History
Early computer busses were bundles of wire that attached memory and peripherals. They were named after electrical buses, or busbars. Almost always, there was one bus for memory, and another for peripherals, and these were accessed by separate instructions, with completely different timings and protocols.
One of the first complications was the use of interrupts. Early computers performed I/O by waiting in a loop for the peripheral to become ready. Engineers realized that this wasted large amounts of time, and arranged for the peripherals to interrupt the CPU. The interrupts had to be prioritised, because the CPU can only execute code for one peripheral at a time.
Some time after this, some computers (such as the RCA Spectra, running Multics) began to share memory between several CPUs. On these computers, access to the bus had to be prioritized, as well.
The classic, simple way to prioritize interrupts or bus access was with a daisy chain.
DEC noted that having two busses seemed wasteful and expensive for small, mass-produced computers, and mapped peripherals into the memory bus. At the time, this was a very daring design. Cynics predicted failure.
Early microcomputer bus systems were essentially a backplane connected to the pins of the CPU. Memory and other devices would be added to the bus using the same address and data pins as the CPU itself used, connected in parallel. In some instances, such as the PC, instructions still generated signals at the CPU that could be used to implement a true I/O bus.
In many microcontrollers and embedded systems, an I/O bus still does not exist. Communication is controlled by the CPU, which reads and writes data from the devices as if they are blocks of memory (in most cases), all timed by a central clock controlling the speed of the CPU. Devices ask for service by signalling on other CPU pins, typically using some form of interrupt.
For instance, a disk drive controller would signal the CPU that new data was ready to be read, at which point the CPU would move the data by reading the memory that corresponded to the disk drive. Almost all early computers were built in this fashion, starting with the S-100 bus in the Altair, and continuing through the IBM PC in the 1980s.
These simple bus systems had a serious drawback for general-purpose computers. All the equipment on the bus has to talk at the same speed, and shares a single clock.
Increasing the speed of the CPU is not a simple matter, because the speed of all the devices must increase as well. This often leads to odd situations where very fast CPUs have to "slow down" in order to talk to other devices in the computer. While acceptable in embedded systems, this problem is not tolerated in commercial computers.
Another problem is that the CPU is required for all operations, so if it becames busy with other tasks the real throughput of the bus could suffer dramatically.
Such bus systems are difficult to configure when contructed from mechant equipment. Typically each added PC board requires many jumpers in order to set memory addresses, I/O addresses, interrupt priorities, and interrupt numbers.
"Second generation" bus systems like NuBus addressed some these problems. They typically separated the computer into two "worlds", the CPU and memory on one side, and the various devices on the other, with a bus controller in between. This allowed the CPU to increase in speed without affecting the bus. This also moved much of the burden for moving the data out of the CPU and into the cards and controller, so devices on the bus could talk to each other with no CPU intervention. This led to much better "real world" performance, but also required the cards to be much more complex. These buses also often addressed speed issues by being "bigger" in terms of the size of the data path, moving from 8-bit parallel buses in the first generation, to 16 or 32-bit in the second, as well as adding software setup to supplant or replace the jumpers.
However these newer systems shared one quality with their earlier cousins, in that everyone on the bus had to talk at the same speed. While the CPU was now insulated and could increase speed without fear, CPUs and memory continued to increase in speed much faster than they buses they talked to. The result was that the bus speeds were now very much slower than what a modern system needed, and the machines were left starved for data. A particularly common example of this problem was that video cards quickly outran even the newer bus systems like PCI, and now computers include the AGP bus just to drive the video card.
During this period an increasing number of external devices started employing their own bus systems as well. When disk drives were first introduced they would be added to the machine with a card on the bus, which is why computers have so many slots on the bus. But through the 1980s and 1990s new systems like SCSI and IDE were introduced to serve this need, leaving most slots in modern systems empty. Today there are likely to be about five different buses in the typical machine, supporting various devices.
A useful differentiation then became popular, the concept of the local bus as opposed to external bus. The former referred to bus systems that were designed to be used with internal devices, such as graphics cards, and the latter to buses designed to add external devices such as scanners. This definition was always soft: IDE is an external bus in terms of how it is used, but is almost always found inside the machine.
"Third generation" buses are now in the process of coming to market, including HyperTransport and InfiniBand. They typically include features that allow them to run at the very high speeds needed to support memory and video cards, while also supporting lower speeds when talking to slower devices such as disk drives. They also tend to be very flexible in terms of their physical connections, allowing them to be used both as internal buses, as well as connecting different machines together. This can lead to complex problems when trying to service different requests, so much of the work on these systems concerns software design, as opposed to the hardware itself. In general these third generation buses tend to look more like a network than the original concept of a bus, with a higher protocol overhead needed than early systems, while also allowing multiple devices to use the bus at once.
Description
At one time "bus" meant an electrically parallel system, with electrical conductors similar or identical to the pins on the CPU. This is no longer the case, and modern systems are blurring the lines between buses and networks.
Buses can be parallel buses, which carry data words striped across multiple wires, or serial buses, which carry data in bit-serial form. The addition of extra power and control connections, differential drivers, and data connections in each direction usually means that most serial buses have more conductors than the minimum of two used in the I²C serial bus. As data rates increase, the problems of timing skew across parallel buses become more and more difficult to circumvent, to the point where a serial bus can actually be operated at higher overall data rates than a parallel bus, despite having fewer electrical connections. Multidrop connections do not work well for fast serial buses, so most modern serial buses use daisy-chain or hub designs.
Most computers have both internal and external buses. An internal bus connects all the internal components of a computer to the motherboard (and thus, the CPU and internal memory). These types of buses are also referred to as a local bus, because they are intended to connect to local devices, not to those in other machines or external to the computer. An external bus connects external peripherals to the motherboard.
Network connections such as Ethernet are not generally regarded as buses, although the difference is largely conceptual rather than practical. The arrival of technologies such as InfiniBand and HyperTransport is further blurring the boundaries between networks and buses. Even the lines between internal and external are sometimes fuzzy, I²C can be used as both an internal bus, or an external bus (where it is known as ACCESS.bus), and InfiniBand is indended to replace both internal buses like PCI as well as external ones like Fibre Channel.
Examples of Internal Computer Buses
Parallel
- S-100 bus used in the Altair and similar computers
- Industry Standard Architecture or ISA
- Extended ISA or EISA
- MicroChannel or MCA
- NuBus or IEEE 1196
- SBus or IEEE 1496
- Peripheral Component Interconnect or PCI
- VMEbus, the VERSAmodule Eurocard bus
- VESA Local Bus or VLB or VL-bus
- Accelerated graphics port or AGP
Serial
- I2C
- Serial Peripheral Interface Bus or SPI bus
- HyperTransport
- PCI-Express
Examples of External Computer Buses
Parallel
- Advanced Technology Attachment or ATA (aka IDE, EIDE, ATAPI, etc.) disk/tape peripheral attachment bus
- IEEE-488 (aka General-Purpose Instrumentation Bus or Hewlett-Packard Instrumentation Bus)
- HIPPI HIgh Performance Parallel Interface
- PCMCIA
- SCSI disk/tape peripheral attachment bus
Serial
- ACCESS.bus (A.b)
- Apple Desktop Bus (ADB)
- Fibre Channel
- IEEE 1394 (FireWire)
- RS-485
- Serial ATA
- Serial Storage Architecture (SSA)
- Universal Serial Bus (USB)
- Controller Area Network (CAN)
Examples of Internal/External Computer Buses
- Futurebus
- InfiniBand
- SCI
- QuickRing
See also
- Bus contention
- Front side bus
External link
- Chip Weems' Lecture 12: Buses
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Computer bus."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
BUS | English | Basic Utility System | Computing |
BUS | Italian | Bisolfano | Medicine |
| Bus. | English | Bushel | N/A |
| BUI | English | Bus Interface Unit | Computer - (DEC) |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: BusSynonyms: autobus (n), busbar (n), charabanc (n), coach (n), double-decker (n), heap (n), jalopy (n), jitney (n), motorbus (n), motorcoach (n), omnibus (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Journey | Vehicle; automobile, train, bus, airplane, plane, autobus, omnibus, subway, motorbike, dirt bike, off-road vehicle, van, minivan, motor scooter',trolley, locomotive; legs, feet, pegs, pins, trotters. |
Vehicle | Motor car, automobile, limousine, car, auto, jalopy, clunker, lemon, flivver, coupe, sedan, two-door sedan, four-door sedan, luxury sedan; wheels, sports car, roadster, gran turismo, jeep, four-wheel drive vehicle, electric car, steamer; golf cart, electric wagon; taxicab, cab, taxicoach, checker cab, yellow cab; station wagon, family car; motorcycle, motor bike, side car; van, minivan, bus, minibus, microbus; truck, wagon, pick-up wagon, pick-up, tractor-trailer, road train, articulated vehicle; racing car, racer, hot rod, stock car, souped-up car. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | This is the bus to school (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth) There's a bomb on a bus. Once the bus goes 50 miles an hour, the bomb is armed (Speed; writing credit: Graham Yost) Morons! Your bus is leaving (Groundhog Day; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) Now the bus tour, which is real, takes to places that, while they are real, they are not real in sense that they did not really happen to the real Peterman which is you. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) When's the next bus out of town (Hooves of Fire; writing credit: Andy Riley; Kevin Cecil) | |
Lyrics | Riding in the bus down the boulevard (Another One Rides The Bus; performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic) And I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus ("Ramblin' Man"; performing artist: Allman Brothers Band) I'm on a bus on a psychedelic trip (EYES WITHOUT A FACE; performing artist: Billy Idol) School bus driver in a traffic jam (Only In America; performing artist: Brooks & Dunn) Into the bus stop to pick up a paper for my old man (MY HOMETOWN; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) | |
Clever | Safety Experts Say School Bus Passengers Should Be Belted (references; author: unknown) People want the front of the bus, back of the church, and center of attention. (references; author: unknown) Buses stop at bus stations, trains at train stations, my desk has a workstation. (references; author: unknown) A bus is a vehicle that runs twice as fast when you are after it as when you are in it. (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | Gus goes by Blue Goose bus. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Bus - For Us (1972) The Bus Is Coming (1971) She Came On the Bus (1969) About the White Bus (1968) The White Bus (1967) | |
Song Titles | Bus Stop (performing artist: The Hollies) Another One Rides The Bus (performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Double-decker bus and taxi entering intersection in Singapore. Credit: CDC. |  | Artist's concept of the Pioneer Venus Bus and probes, shortly after probe deployment. Credit: NASA. |
 | Volunteers assist the Oyster Recovery Partnership in their effort to transplant oyster spat before the population is decimated by the Stylochus flatworm. Workers from the Bay Bus Partnership Project are in the water preparing pallets of hatchery bags to be loaded aboard the ROBERT LEE. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | "Buy boat" ROBERT LEE, working with the Oyster Recovery Partnership, maneuvers among pallets of oyster hatchery bags. Volunteers from the Bay Bus Partnership Project in the water prepare the pallets to be loaded onto the boat. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Harvey Schaffer bus drive with the Fishing Creek Transportation delivers children to the Bloomsburg Daycare Center in PA. Credit: USDA. |  | Youngsters board bus that will take them to the urban environmental camp out sites in Virginia. Event sponsored by BLM, ES and the DC Urban Tree House partnership. Credit: Cathy Rodine. |
 | Caption: Edison and Others with Beach Bus Made by the Electric Coach Corp., and Scheduled to Operate to Atlantic City; West Orange, NJ; November 21, 1913; {14.625/18} (jpg). |  | [Campus bus for students and supplies]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Cartoon by Gluyas Williams, depicting Navy, civilian and military personnel exiting the "Main Navy" and "Munitions" Buildings in Washington, D.C., during World War II. Note bus at right with destination sign for Chevy Chase Circle. Credit: NAVY. |  | Summer pastimes. Riding up to Hooper's Lake on the Saturday p.m. bus --. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Bus story 1" by Bonifacio Pontonio Commentary: "Traffic and transport." | "NYC Bus Stop" by J. Rodriguez Commentary: "This is a New York City bus Stop shot I took before I went to my vacation." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Denis Leary | Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Nevertheless Caesar de Bus is in bliss and Voltaire is in torment |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Maybe you got to take a bus, or somepin |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Highly effective advertising media in the U.K. are bus and taxi sides. (references) | |
Exclusive bus and taxi lanes are highly effective where these are rigorously enforced. (references) | ||
Other major customers for the HGV market are the providers of public bus and coach services. (references) | ||
Children | Indonesia | Under this program, street children are removed physically from cities by bus. (references) |
Czech Republic | There are a growing number of bus lines that are accessible to persons with disabilities; tram lines in Plzen are wheelchair accessible. (references) | |
Brazil | However, during the year, the Rio de Janeiro city government began requiring that bus companies provide free passes to persons with disabilities. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Tajikistan | In addition pilgrims were allowed to travel to Mecca and Medina by bus from Mashhad, Iran. (references) |
Malaysia | Police set up roadblocks and monitored bus stations, train stations, and airports to turn back suspected opposition supporters. (references) | |
Panama | After several days of negotiations, the Government, moderate labor groups, and bus owners reached an agreement that ended the protests. (references) | |
Economic History | Ecuador | Subsidized urban, intercity, and rural bus service is available throughout the country. (references) |
Jamaica | Notable exceptions are services, such as telecommunications, electricity, water and bus fares. (references) | |
New Zealand | Those assets include water and sewage systems, airports, forests, marine ports, bus systems and roading. (references) | |
Human Rights | Nicaragua | However, the bus did not slow down. (references) |
Mexico | The bus drivers claim that they were tortured into confessing. (references) | |
Colombia | On September 20, the FARC kidnaped 11-year-old Laura Ulloa from her school bus in Cali. (references) | |
Minorities | Macedonia | Sulejmani claimed that masked policemen forced him off of a bus and that he was handcuffed to a table and questioned for 10 hours. (references) |
Dominican Republic | Police regulations threaten those offering transportation to illegal immigrants with confiscation of their vehicles and have discouraged taxi and bus drivers from picking up dark-skinned persons. (references) | |
Israel and the occupied territories | For example, a September 1999 survey revealed that 40 percent of employment ads in one weekend newspaper listed "army service necessary." Jobs included ice cream sales, typist, bus driver, and customer service. (references) | |
Political Economy | EL SALVADOR | Prices are unregulated, with the exception of bus fares and utilities. (references) |
JAMAICA | However, certain public utility charges such as bus fares, water, electricity, and telecommunications remain subject to price controls and can be changed only with government approval. (references) | |
Israel | Tourism between Israel and Jordan developed quickly after the first Israeli tourists bearing Israeli passports were welcomed into Jordan and non-stop bus service and air services between Amman and Tel Aviv were initiated in mid-1996. (references) | |
Travel | Panama | There is no bus service at the airport. (references) |
Uruguay | Internal transportation is mainly by car or bus. (references) | |
Argentina | Buenos Aires has extensive subway and bus routes. (references) | |
Women | Afghanistan | Bus drivers also were required to employ boys under the age of 15 to collect fares from female passengers; neither the drivers nor the fare collectors were to mingle with the passengers. (references) |
Afghanistan | In December 1998, the Taliban ordered that bus drivers who took female passengers must encase the bus in curtains and put up a curtain so that the female passengers cannot see or be seen by the driver. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Ecuador | In January Quito bus drivers struck briefly. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | This year, we must begin the effort to reform our regulatory processes for the railroad, bus, and the trucking industries. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Seeing another girl freeze in terror before an out-of-control school bus, she riksed her life and pulled her to safety. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We are on a journey that in a very real sense began forty years ago, when a woman sat on a bus in Alabama. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Bus" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.47% of the time. "Bus" is used about 5,293 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.47% | 5,212 | 1,876 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.64% | 34 | 59,261 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.62% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.15% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.11% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5,293 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Hong Kong | Kowloon Motor Bus Holdings Limited | Hungary | North American Bus Industries Rt |
| Japan | Hokkaido Chuo Bus Co., Ltd. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "bus": a bird in the hand is worth two in the bus ♦ AC bus ♦ address bus ♦ airport bus ♦ alternate current bus ♦ alternating current bus ♦ articulated bus ♦ at bus architecture ♦ balancing bus ♦ Batangas Laguna Tayabas Bus Co. ♦ board the bus ♦ bus bar ♦ bus bars ♦ bus boarder ♦ bus boy ♦ bus CHI ♦ bus company ♦ bus conductor ♦ bus conductress ♦ bus connection ♦ bus depot ♦ bus driver ♦ bus error ♦ bus fare ♦ bus fleet ♦ bus garage ♦ bus it ♦ bus lane ♦ bus line ♦ bus master ♦ bus mastering ♦ bus network ♦ bus ride ♦ bus rider ♦ bus route ♦ bus select ♦ bus selective detection ♦ bus service ♦ bus shelter ♦ bus station ♦ bus stop ♦ bus street ♦ bus terminal ♦ bus ticket ♦ bus traffic ♦ bus train ♦ bus transit ♦ bus transport ♦ by bus ♦ camping bus ♦ CHI bus ♦ concentration highway interface bus ♦ control area network bus ♦ corporation bus ♦ data bus ♦ DC bus ♦ direct current bus ♦ distributed Queue Dual Bus ♦ electric bus ♦ excursion bus ♦ front side bus ♦ general Purpose Interface Bus ♦ get off the bus ♦ get on the bus ♦ go by bus ♦ high Performance Serial Bus ♦ home bus ♦ infinite bus ♦ interurban bus ♦ ISA bus ♦ local bus ♦ MCAP bus ♦ medical information bus ♦ micro channel bus architecture ♦ miss the bus ♦ motor bus ♦ Motorola cellular advanced processor bus ♦ multisystem eXtention Interface Bus ♦ passive bus ♦ PCI bus ♦ peripheral bus ♦ rail bus ♦ ride in a bus ♦ ride on a school bus ♦ S passive bus ♦ scheduled bus ♦ school bus ♦ school bus service ♦ service bus ♦ shuttle bus ♦ shuttle bus service ♦ sightseeing bus ♦ slack bus ♦ software bus ♦ switch network controller bus extender ♦ system Management Bus ♦ take a bus ♦ to the bus ♦ token bus ♦ token bus baseband LAN ♦ token bus baseband local area network. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "bus": bus-bar, bus-based, bus-bench, bus-boat, bus-bodied, bus-boy, bus-boys, bus-compatible, bus-conductor, bus-connected, bus-driver, bus-drivers, bus-fare, bus-fares, bus-hopped, bus-load, bus-miles, bus-only, bus-priority, bus-queue, bus-rail, bus-ready, bus-ride, bus-routes, bus-services, bus-shelter, bus-station, bus-steps, bus-stop, bus-stops, bus-strike, Bus-tech, bus-ticket, bus-tickets, bus-to-bus, bus-type, bus-width. | |
Ending with "bus": c-bus, dual-bus, mini-bus, vl-bus. | |
Containing "bus": Jim-the-bus-driver, Q-bus-based, rail-bus-underground, three-bus-an-hour, walking-cycling-bus-using. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
bang bus | 15,390 | bus ticket | 423 |
greyhound bus | 7,573 | bus fare greyhound | 406 |
bus | 4,998 | gang bang bus | 378 |
greyhound bus line | 2,532 | bus stop | 356 |
bait bus | 1,257 | greyhound bus station | 318 |
school bus | 1,171 | bus fare | 318 |
net bus | 1,099 | bus greyhound ticket | 288 |
bus travel | 1,096 | vw bus | 285 |
bus tour | 1,073 | bonanza bus | 285 |
charter bus | 753 | bus transportation | 277 |
bus line | 728 | bus sex | 266 |
greyhound bus schedule | 696 | used bus | 256 |
magic school bus | 673 | bus pace | 253 |
bus conversion | 569 | bus company | 250 |
bus schedule | 562 | bus rental | 244 |
bus slut | 555 | bus line pan peter | 237 |
metro bus | 500 | bus greyhound service | 228 |
bang bus.com | 495 | net bus download | 205 |
bus for sale | 483 | bus route | 204 |
bus pan peter | 462 | bus chinatown | 201 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "bus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | bus (autobus, motorbus, omnibus). (various references) | |
Albanian | autobus (autobus, coach, motorbus, omnibus). (various references) | |
Arabic | حافلة (carriage, coach, waggon), أوتبيس, باص للمسافات البعيدة, باص داخل المدينة. (various references) | |
Asturian | bus. (various references) | |
Basque | autobus. (various references) | |
Bemba | saca. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | ikkstsskiómitaa. (various references) | |
Breton | bus. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | самолет (aeroplane, aircraft, airplane, craft, plane, ship), автобус (autobus, motorbus, omnibus), пътувам с автобус. (various references) | |
Cebuano | bus. (various references) | |
Chamorro | bas. (various references) | |
Chinese | 轎車 , 氣車 , 公共汽车, 公共汽車 , 廣播和未知服務器 (Broadcast and Unknown Server). (various references) | |
Czech | autobus (autobus, motor bus, omnibus). (various references) | |
Danish | bus (autobus, motorbus, omnibus). (various references) | |
Dutch | bus (autobus, can, drum, hub, letterbox, mailbox, motorbus, nave, omnibus, tin, tin can), autobus (autobus, motorbus, omnibus). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | bus. (various references) | |
Esperanto | buso (omnibus), aŭtobuso (autobus, omnibus). (various references) | |
Faeroese | bussur. (various references) | |
Farsi | اتوبوس (Omnibus), بااتوبوس رفتن . (various references) | |
Finnish | bussi (motorbus, omnibus), väylä (channel, course, fairway, passage), sähköjohto (cord, electric wire, flex), linja-auto (coach), johto (conduit, direction, guidance, lead, leadership, line, management, pipe, wire cord flex). (various references) | |
Flemish | bus. (various references) | |
French | autobus (buses), bus (busbar). (various references) | |
Frisian | bus (motorbus). (various references) | |
Galician | bus, autobús. (various references) | |
German | bus (coach, motorbus), Autobus (motorbus, omnibus). (various references) | |
Greek | λεωφορείο (jitney, motorbus, omnibus, stage). (various references) | |
Guarani | míkrope (by bus). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | autobus (motorbus). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אוטובוס (coach, motor bus, omnibus). (various references) | |
Hungarian | autóbusz (autobus, coach, motorbus, motor-bus, omnibus), busz (motorbus). (various references) | |
Icelandic | rúta (country bus). (various references) | |
Indonesian | bis (box, pipe, tube), mengangkut dengan bis. (various references) | |
Inuktitut | pasi. (various references) | |
Irish | bus (autobus, of bus, omnibus). (various references) | |
Italian | autobus (autobus, coach, double decker, motorbus, omnibus), pullman (buses, coach, minibus, pullman). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | バイヤー法 (all-terrain vehicle, baccalaureat, bacteria, bacteriophage, Bagdad, baggy look, bagpipe, baguette, basilisk, bass, bassoon, bath, baumkuchen, Bayer process, bazaar, bilingual, bind, binder, binding, bounce, bound, bow side, bucket, budget, bug, bug fix, bug list, bug report, bugbear, buggy, by-line, holidays, honey wagon, pail, sand buggy, surf clam, vacation, vacuum, vacuum car, vacuum cleaner, vagabond, vagina), 乗合自動車 , 乗合 (fellow passenger, joint partnership, riding together, stagecoach). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | バス (bass, bath), のりあいじどうしゃ, のりあい (a fellow passenger, fellow passenger, joint partnership, riding together, stagecoach). (various references) | |
Korean | 버스. (various references) | |
Luganda | bbaasi (the bus). (various references) | |
Luxembourgish | bus. (various references) | |
Macedonian | avtobus. (various references) | |
Manx | carbyd (bier, cabin, coach, hearse, stretcher, vehicle), bus (omnibus), barroose (char-a-banc, omnibus). (various references) | |
Maori | pahi. (various references) | |
Norwegian | buss (motorbus). (various references) | |
Occitan | autobús. (various references) | |
Papiamen | bùs (motorbus), konvoi (motorbus). (various references) | |
Pidgin English | bus. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | usbay.(various references) | |
Polish | autobus (motorbus). (various references) | |
Portuguese | ônibus (autobus, coach, limited, motor bus, omnibus). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | ônibus. (various references) | |
Provencal | bus. (various references) | |
Romanian | autobuz (motor bus, motorbus, omnibus, two-decker). (various references) | |
Russian | автобус (autobus, coach, motor bus, motorbus, omnibus). (various references) | |
Samoan | pasi. (various references) | |
Scottish | bhus. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | putovati autobusom, autobus (autobus, char-a-banc, motor bus, motorbus). (various references) | |
Sicilian | onnibus. (various references) | |
Somali | basku (the bus), baska (the bus). (various references) | |
Spanish | autobús (autobus, motorbus, omnibus), autobus (motor bus). (various references) | |
Swedish | buss (friend, motor coach, old campaigner, quid). (various references) | |
Tagalog | bus (motorbus). (various references) | |
Thai | เก็บจาน (ในร้านอาหาร), เดินทางโดยรถบัส, เดินทางโดยรถสารประจำทาง, รถโดยสารประจำทาง. (various references) | |
Turkish | otobüs (autobus, coach, motorbus, omnibus). (various references) | |
Turkmen | konductor (r). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | їхати в автобусі, шина (junk, tire, tyre), машина (apparatus, engine, machine), автобус (autobus, coach, omnibus). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | ô tô (en-tout-cas). (various references) | |
Welsh | bws, bus (autobus, omnibus). (various references) | |
Yucatec | wawa (motorbus). (various references) | |
Zulu | ilibhasi (motorbus), ibhasi (motorbus). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 22, Verse 21 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ton wx prwtotokon kai ton baux adelfon autou kai ton kamouhl patera surwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Hus primogenitum et Buz fratrem eius Camuhel patrem Syrorum |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Hus frumcenneda, ond Bus hys broðor, ond Camuel þæra Syra fæder, |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | The fyrst getun, and Buz, the brothir of hym, and Chamuel, the fadir of Sirus, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Hus his eldest sonne and Bus his brother and Lemuell the father of the Sinans |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram, |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Huz his first-born, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram, |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Uz the oldest, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel, the father of Aram, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Genesis Chapter 22, Verse 21 |
| Cebuano | Ug si Huz mao ang iyang panganay, ug si Buz ang iyang igsoon, ug si Kemuel nga amahan ni Aram. |
| Chinese | 長 子 是 烏 斯 、 他 的 兄 弟 是 布 斯 、 和 亞 蘭 的 父 親 基 母 利 ． |
| Croatian | njegova prvoroðenca Usa, brata mu Buza i Kemuela - oca Aramova, |
| Danish | Uz, hans førstefødte, dennes Broder Buz, Kemuel, Arams Fader, |
| Dutch | Uz, zijn eerstgeborene, en Buz, zijn broeder, en Kemuel, den vader van Aram, |
| Finnish | Nämä olivat Uus, hänen esikoisensa, tämän veli Buus, Kemuel, Aramin isä, |
| French | Uts, son premier-né, Buz, son frère, Kemuel, père d`Aram, |
| German | nämlich Uz, den Erstgeborenen, und Buz, seinen Bruder, und Kemuel, von dem die Syrer kommen, |
| Haitian Creole | Premye pitit la rele Ouz. Apre li, vini Bouz, Kemwèl, papa Aram, |
| Hungarian | Úzt az õ elsõszülöttét, és Búzt annak testvérét, és Kemuélt Arámnak atyját. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Us, yang sulung; Bus, adiknya; Kemuel, yang kemudian menjadi ayah Aram; |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | yaitu akan Huz, anaknya yang sulung, dan akan Buz, adiknya, dan akan Kemuil, bapa Aram, |
| Italian | Uz, il primogenito, e suo fratello Buz e Kamuèl il padre di Aram |
| Maori | Ko Hutu, ko tana matamua, raua ko Putu, ko tona teina, me Kemuera hoki, matua o Arame, |
| Norwegian | Us, den eldste, og Bus, hans bror, og Kemuel, far til Aram, |
| Portuguese | Uz o seu primogênito, e Buz seu irmão, e Quemuel, pai de Arão, |
| Rumanian | wi anume pe Uy, kntkiul squ nqscut, pe Buz, fratele squ, pe Chemuel, tatql lui Aram, |
| Russian | хГБ, РЕТЧЕОГБ ЕЗП, чХЪБ, ВТБФБ УЕНХ, лЕНХЙМБ, ПФГБ бТБНПЧБ, |
| Spanish | Uz su primogénito, su hermano Buz, Quemuel padre de Aram, |
| Swedish | Barnen voro Us, hans förstfödde, och Bus, dennes broder, och Kemuel, Arams fader, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bus": busbar, busbars, busbies, busboy, busboys, busby, bused, buses, bush, bushbuck, bushbucks, bushed, bushel, busheled, busheler, bushelers, busheling, bushelled, bushelling, bushels, busher, bushers, bushes, bushfire, bushfires, bushgoat, bushgoats, bushido, bushidos, bushier, bushiest, bushily, bushiness, bushinesses, bushing, bushings, bushland, bushlands, bushless, bushlike, bushman, bushmaster, bushmasters, bushmen, bushpig, bushpigs, bushranger, bushrangers, bushranging, bushrangings, bushtit. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "bus": airbus, arquebus, autobus, babus, colobus, cumulonimbus, ephebus, habus, harquebus, iambus, incubus, jacobus, limbus, microbus, minibus, motorbus, nimbus, omnibus, phoebus, railbus, rebus, rhombus, rubus, succubus, syllabus, tabus, thrombus, trolleybus, zebus. (additional references) | |
Words containing "bus": abusable, abuse, abused, abuser, abusers, abuses, abusing, abusive, abusively, abusiveness, abusivenesses, agribusiness, agribusinesses, agribusinessman, agribusinessmen, airbuses, airbusses, ambuscade, ambuscaded, ambuscader, ambuscaders, ambuscades, ambuscading, ambush, ambushed, ambusher, ambushers, ambushes, ambushing, ambushment, ambushments, antibusiness, antibusing, antifilibuster, antifilibusters, arbuscle, arbuscles, arquebuses, autobuses, autobusses, babushka, babushkas, blockbuster, blockbusters, blockbusting, blockbustings, blunderbuss, blunderbusses, broncobuster, broncobusters, buttonbush. (additional references) | |
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"Bus" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: basf, basq, basw, bauc, bauz, bbs, bbus, bds, bes, besp, Bewes, bgus, Bhsi, bis, bisc, bks, bous, boz, bpsa, Bpu, brs, bss, bts, bu, bua, buc, bucs, bue, Buess, buh, buhs, buis, buj, buls, buse, busi, buso, Buv, buw, bux, buza, buzi, Buzu, Bvu, cbus, Dbsu, Ebus, eus, Ibusa, ius, qus, uba, vus, xbus. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bus" (pronounced bu"s) |
| 3 | b u" s | Buss. |
| 2 | -u" s | cuss, discuss, fuss, plus, pus, suss, thus, truss, us, wuss. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: sub. | |
| Words within the letters "b-s-u" | |
-1 letter: us. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-s-u" | |
+1 letter: bubs, buds, bugs, bums, buns, burs, bush, busk, buss, bust, busy, buts, buys, cubs, dubs, fubs, hubs, nubs, pubs, rubs, slub, snub, stub, suba, subs, tubs, urbs. | |
+2 letters: abuse, abuts, babus, bauds, beaus, bhuts, blubs, blues, blurs, blush, bogus, bolus, bonus, bosun, bouse, bousy, bouts, brush, brusk, bucks, buffs, buhls, buhrs, bulbs, bulks, bulls, bumfs, bumps, bunds, bungs, bunks, bunns, bunts, buoys, buras, burbs, burds, burgs, burls, burns, burps, burrs, bursa, burse, burst, busby, bused, buses, bushy, busks, busts, busty, butes, butts, chubs, clubs, cubes, curbs, daubs, drubs, dumbs, flubs, fubsy, grubs, habus, jubas, jubes, lubes, numbs, pubes, pubis, rebus, rubes, rubus, scrub, scuba, sebum, shrub, slubs, slurb, snubs, squab, squib, stubs, subah, subas, suber, tabus, tsuba, tubas, tubes, umbos, zebus. | |
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