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Date "BUSES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1894. (references) |
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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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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."
Synonyms: BUSESSynonyms: Motor buses, Omnibuses. (additional references) |
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Screenplays | It is not my job to be jumping on and off of buses, I don't do that, I am not Carl Lewis (Rush Hour; writing credit: Jim Kouf) Look at the buses, watch 'em. (The Other Sister; writing credit: Alexandra Rose; Blair Richwood) No buses, not even a fruit truck (The Sheltering Sky; writing credit: Mark Peploe) I ride around most nights -- subways, buses -- but you know, if I'm gonna do that I might as well get paid for it. (Taxi Driver; writing credit: Paul Schrader) There are buses outside (Man on the Moon; writing credit: Scott Alexander; Larry Karaszewski) | |
Clever | Buses stop at bus stations, trains at train stations, my desk has a workstation. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Holiday on the Buses (1973) On the Buses (1971) | |
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 | School buses above Cobble Beach tide pools in the Yaquina Head ONA. Credit: BLM. |  | Caption: Wilber B. Huston's Snapshots of His Trip to the 1929 Edison Scholarship Contest, Buses {Assembled at Curbside for Edison Scholarship Contestants and Guests?}; July-aug., 1929; {13.110/5} (jpg). |
 | Plan view of the forward part of the ship, taken at the Mare Island Navy Yard, 15 July 1942. Note the ship's quadruple torpedo tubes and torpedo crane; bicycles on the pier (one being ridden); and buildings, motor buses, large yard cranes and assorted shipyard materiel in the background. Credit: NAVY. |  | Pomona (Calif.) Assembly Center - evacuees pass through outer gate of center toward buses awaiting to take them to relocation center. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Propaganda flier depicting two images of transportation in Thailand; one of checkpoints and soldiers under Communism and the other of buses and highways under freedom. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Tourist buses in front of church with Hotel Tuller at right, Detroit. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Training women to operate buses and taxicabs. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | School buses at consolidated school for Huntington Township, Ross County, Ohio. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Two Greyhound buses going from Washington, D.C. to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Columbus, Ohio. Buses pulled up at the Greyhound station. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Every day we experience sound in our environment such as the television, radio, washing machine, automobiles, buses and trucks. (references) | |
With this technique, a child could be told that cars, buses, trucks, and bicycles are all vehicles, machines that carry people and things from place to place. (references) | ||
Business | The initial replacement program will be at the level of 3,000 buses. (references) | |
EURO II buses are made by Mercedes Benz, Isuzu and Hino Corporations. (references) | ||
Trucks and buses are likely to be the most effected by this law change. (references) | ||
Children | Greece | The Government continued to replace old city buses with new accessible buses. (references) |
Argentina | More buses and trains also are accessible by persons with disabilities, consistent with legislation passed in December 2000. (references) | |
Brazil | However, according to the Association of Physically Handicapped Persons, there are no buses in the city adapted for wheelchairs. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Tajikistan | During the year, several hundred of these persons were sent in buses to Afghanistan. (references) |
Korea | The regime tightly controls access to civilian aircraft, trains, buses, food, and fuel. (references) | |
Turkey | The refusal came on August 29, as HADEP members were gathering in Diyarbakir to board buses for Ankara. (references) | |
Economic History | Cote D'ivoire | Inter-city buses service these cities through a modern road network. (references) |
Korea | Also, trains and buses travel regularly to the far reaches of the country. (references) | |
Japan | Transit advertisements are located either inside commuter rail cars or buses, or in stations. (references) | |
Human Rights | Nepal | The rioters were vandalizing and setting fire to buses in protest after a bus hit and killed two students. (references) |
Senegal | On February 16, suspected MFDC gunmen stopped four buses carrying civilians in Sediou district and stole their belongings. (references) | |
Burundi | Rebels attacked numerous buses and minibuses, killing many of the passengers during the year; attacks occurred throughout the country. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Venezuela | However, the Caracas city government and the Metropolitan Police maintained a policy of forcing the Warao to return to the delta by rounding them up and loading them onto buses. (references) |
Minorities | India | In addition they face segregation in housing, in land ownership, on roads, and on buses. (references) |
Argentina | Other minorities have reported avoiding buses and other crowded public facilities out of fear of being subjected to racial harassment. (references) | |
Political Economy | Sudan | Conscription frequently was carried out by government authorities who raided buses and other public places to seize young men. (references) |
NORWAY | Tax credits and government grants are offered, however, to encourage investment in northern Norway; and tax incentives are granted to encourage the use of environmentally-friendly products such as liquid gas driven buses and the electric car. (references) | |
Trade | Venezuela | At this time, imports of used autos, buses and trucks, used clothing and used tires are prohibited. (references) |
Travel | Egypt | Buses take 3 1/2 hours, with a rest stop. (references) |
Panama | Buses and Taxis are readily available in urban areas. (references) | |
Korea | A less expensive option is the widely available airport buses. (references) | |
Women | Afghanistan | Women could ride only on buses designated as women's buses; reportedly there were not enough such buses to meet the demand, and the wait for women's buses could be long. (references) |
Worker Rights | United Arab Emirates | The measure is aimed at improving worker and traffic safety by requiring employers to transport employees in buses. (references) |
Ghana | In practice child employment is widespread, and young children of school age often perform menial tasks during the day in the market or collect fares on local buses. (references) | |
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Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | We, therefore, want to explore a variety of paratransit modes, various types of buses, modern rapid transit, regional rail systems and light rail systems. |
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| "BUSES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 99.86% of the time. "BUSES" is used about 1,456 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 (plural) | 99.86% | 1,454 | 5,566 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.14% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,456 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "BUSES": inbound matrix timing buses ♦ inbound PCM/DATA buses ♦ number of seats/berths in motor coaches, buses and trolleybuses. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "BUSES": mini-buses, trolley-buses. | |
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| Language | Translations for "BUSES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | bus i pendulfart (shuttle buses), udgående-matrix timingbusser (outbound matrix timing buses), skolebustransport (school buses, school transport), matrix timingbusser (matrix timing buses), indgående-matrix timingbusser (inbound matrix timing buses), indgående PCM-busser (inbound PCM/DATA buses), enhed til tilkobling af busser (circuit for connecting buses), enhed til frakobling af busser (circuit for disconnecting buses), elevtransport (school buses, school transport). (various references) | |
Dutch | bussen. (various references) | |
Finnish | tulevien matriisien ajastusväylät (inbound matrix timing buses), PCM-ja DATA-tuloväylät (inbound PCM/DATA buses), matriisinajastusväylät (matrix timing buses), lähtevien matriisien ajastusväylät (outbound matrix timing buses). (various references) | |
French | autobus (bus). (various references) | |
German | Buße (atonement, busse, damages, fine, forfeit, penance, penitence, purgation, repentance), Autobusse. (various references) | |
Greek | κύκλωμα για την αποσύνδεση αγωγών (circuit for disconnecting buses), κύκλωμα για τη σύνδεση αγωγών (circuit for connecting buses), μεταφορά των μαθητών (school buses, school transport), εισερχόμενες αρτηρίες PCM/DATA (inbound PCM/DATA buses), εισερχόμενες αρτηρίες χρονισμού μήτρας (inbound matrix timing buses), εξερχόμενες αρτηρίες χρονισμού μήτρας (outbound matrix timing buses), αρτηρίες χρονισμού μήτρας (matrix timing buses), Λωρίδα στάσης λεωφορείων είναι μία ζώνη,που επιτρέπει τη στάση εκτός του οδοστρώματος,χωριζόμενη από τις λωρίδες κυκλοφορίας των οχημάτων (a bus stopping lane is an area separate from the carriageway carrying the traffic flow and only joins it at the entrance and exit points, thus allowing buses to stop off the carriageway(see note to 132)), τακτικά δρομολόγια με πούλμαν (shuttle buses). (various references) | |
Italian | pullman (bus, coach, minibus, pullman). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | usesbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | autocarros. (various references) | |
Spanish | buses de sincronización matricial (matrix timing buses), buses de sincronización de la matriz de salida (outbound matrix timing buses), buses de sincronización de la matriz de entradas (inbound matrix timing buses), buses de entrada PCM/DATA (inbound PCM/DATA buses), buses de entrada MIC/DATA (inbound PCM/DATA buses), un carril de parada del autobús es una zona fuera de la calzada, separada de los carriles reservados a la circulación de los vehículos y únicamente unida a aquella por los puntos de entrada y sal ida (a bus stopping lane is an area separate from the carriageway carrying the traffic flow and only joins it at the entrance and exit points, thus allowing buses to stop off the carriageway(see note to 132)), circuito para la desconexión de bus (circuit for disconnecting buses), circuito para la conexión de bus (circuit for connecting buses), autobuses (shuttle buses). (various references) | |
Swedish | bussar. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "BUSES": abuses, airbuses, arquebuses, autobuses, colobuses, cumulonimbuses, disabuses, harquebuses, iambuses, incubuses, jacobuses, limbuses, microbuses, minibuses, motorbuses, nimbuses, omnibuses, phoebuses, railbuses, rebuses, rhombuses, succubuses, syllabuses, trolleybuses. (additional references) | |
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"BUSES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bises, bosas, Bosevski, bosse, bruses, Bsec, bses, Bsis, bss, bubes, budes, Buess, Buesst, buges, Bupesh, Busaco, buse, busen, buser, busers, Buset, Busey, busnes, busness, Bussaco, bussel, butes, Buyssens, buze, byssus, obuses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BUSES" (pronounced bu"suz) |
| 5 | b u" s u z | Busses. |
| 4 | -u" s u z | discusses, fusses, pluses, trusses. |
| 3 | -s u z | absences, abuses, acceptances, accomplices, aces, acquaintances, actresses, addresses, advances, affixes, albatrosses, aliases, allegiances, alliances, allowances, amaryllises, ambulances, annexes, announces, annoyances, apparatuses, appearances, appendixes, appliances, apprentices, asses, assesses, assurances, atlases, audiences, auspices, axes, congresses, consciences, consequences, continuances, contrivances, conveniences, converses, convinces, corpses, countenances, balances, bases, basses, biases, Biosciences, blesses, blitzes, blouses, boardinghouses, bonuses, bookcases, bosses, bounces, bourses, boxes, braces, briefcases, businesses, buttresses, bypasses, cabooses, cadences, campuses, canvases, canvasses, carcasses, Casas, cases, caucuses, cayuses, ceases, censuses, chances, chases, choices, choruses, circumstances, circuses, classes, clearances, clearinghouses, climaxes, clubhouses, coaxes, coffeehouses, coincidences, collapses, commences, complexes, compresses, concourses, condolences, conferences, confesses, confidences, courses, courthouses, creases, cresses, crevices, crocuses, crosses, crosspieces, crucifixes, curses, dances, databases, decreases, defenses, denounces, depresses, devices, differences, disabuses, disallowances, disappearances, discourses, dismisses, dispenses, displaces, distances, distresses, disturbances, divergences, divorces, dollhouses, doses, dresses, earpieces, eclipses, embarrasses, embraces, eminences, encompasses, endorses, enforces, enhances, entrances, erases, esses, evidences, excesses, excuses, exes, expanses, expenses, experiences, expresses, eyeglasses, eyewitnesses, faces, farmhouses, faxes, fences, fetuses, finances, firehouses, fireplaces, fixes, flexes, flounces, focuses, forces, fortresses, foxes, fragrances, furnaces, gases, gasses, gearboxes, geniuses, glances, glasses, glimpses, glosses, goddesses, graces, grasses, greenhouses, grievances, grimaces, grosses, grouses, guesses, guesthouses, harnesses, headdresses, hindrances, hippopotamuses, hisses, hoaxes, horses, hospices, hostesses, houses, hyraxes, ices, illnesses, imbalances, impresses, impulses, incidences, inconveniences, increases, indexes, induces, indulgences, inferences, influences, injustices, instances, insurances, interfaces, intersperses, introduces, invoices, irises, issuances, juices, jukeboxes, justices, kisses, laces, lapses, latexes, leases, licences, licenses, lighthouses, likenesses, looses, losses, lynxes, mailboxes, marketplaces, masses, masterpieces, mattresses, medusas, messes, minibuses, minuses, misses, missus, mistresses, mixes, molasses, mongooses, morasses, mosses, mouthpieces, necklaces, nieces, nixes, notices, novices, nuances, nurses, observances, occurrences, offenses, offices, omnibuses, ordinances, orifices, ounces, outhouses, outpaces, overdoses, overpasses, paces, palaces, paradoxes, passes, penises, performances, perplexes, perses, pieces, pizzas, places, polices, porpoises, possesses, poultices, powerhouses, practices, prances, preferences, prejudices, premises, presences, presses, pretenses, prices, princes, princesses, processes, produces, professes, progresses, prominences, promises, pronounces, prospectuses, protuberances, provinces, pulses, purchases, purposes, purses, pusses, racehorses, races, reassurances, recesses, reduces, references, refinances, reflexes, refocuses, rehearses, reimburses, reinforces, reintroduces, relapses, relaxes, releases, remembrances, reminiscences, reminisces, remittances, renounces, replaces, reproduces, repurchases, resemblances, residences, resources, responses, retroviruses, reverses, romances, sacrifices, sauces, sciences, sconces, seamstresses, senses, sentences, sequences, services, sexes, shoelaces, showcases, silences, sinuses, sixes, skyboxes, slaughterhouses, slices, solstices, sources, spaces, spices, splices, spouses, staircases, stances, statehouses, steakhouses, stewardesses, stresses, substances, successes, suffices, suitcases, sunglasses, suppresses, surfaces, surpasses, surpluses, surtaxes, taxes, terraces, tolerances, tortoises, tosses, townhouses, traces, treatises, tresses, typefaces, universes, uses, utterances, variances, vases, verses, versus, vices, viruses, voices, waitresses, walruses, waltzes, waxes, weaknesses, witnesses, workhorses, workplaces, xeroxes, yeses. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: buss, subs, sues, uses. | |
-2 letters: bus, ess, sub, sue, use. | |
-3 letters: be, es, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: abuses, bouses, burses, bushes, busies, bussed, busses, sebums, subers, subsea, subset. | |
+2 letters: abusers, basques, bejesus, bemuses, besmuts, bestuds, bisques, blouses, blushes, boluses, bonuses, bosques, bourses, bruises, brushes, budless, burgess, busbies, bushels, bushers, busiest, buskers, busters, bustles, rebuses, rubasse, soubise, subbase, subdebs, subdues, sublets, subnets, subsale, subsect, subsere, subsets, subside, subsite, subsume, subtest, surbase. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Quotations: Speeches 10. Usage Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Bibliography |
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