bus.とは

意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

bus.

1. Abbreviation of business.

アナグラム

• SBU, UBS, USB, sub, sub-, sub.

語源

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

発音

• IPA^(key): /bʌs/, enPR: bŭs
  • (Northern England, Ireland) IPA^(key): /bʊs/
  • (General Australian, General New Zealand, Received 発音, Scotland, Mid-Atlantic) IPA^(key): /bɐs/
  • (Northern Cities Vowel Shift, Ireland) IPA^(key): /bɔs/
• 韻: -ʌs

名詞

bus (複数形 buses または busses)

1. (automotive) A motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads.
2. An electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components.
3. Part of a MIRV missile, having on-board motors used to deliver the warhead to a target.
4. (medical industry, slang) An ambulance.

同意語

• (electrical conductor): electrical bus, busbar, digit trunk
• (vehicle): autobus, coach, loser cruiser, motorbus, multibus, omnibus, Shillibeer (廃れた用法)

下位語

派生語

派生した語

動詞

bus (三人称単数 現在形 busses または buses, 現在分詞 bussing または busing, 過去形および過去分詞形 bussed または bused)

1. (transitive, automotive, transport) To transport via a motor bus.
2. (transitive, automotive, transport, chiefly US) To transport students to school, often to a more distant school for the purposes of achieving racial integration.
   • 1966, Phil Ochs, "Love Me, I'm a Liberal", Phils Ochs in Concert.

     But if you ask me to bus my children / I hope the cops take down your name

   • 2008, Ashley R. Holm, Racial Differences in Student Engagement and Attainment: A Study of Topeka High School, 1939--1984, ProQuest →ISBN, page 23

     ...to strike down Detroit's federal court order to bus students across school district lines for the purpose of desegregation and therefore nullify many busing programs throughout the country.

3. (intransitive, automotive, transport) To travel by bus.
4. (transitive, US, food service) To clear meal remains from.

   He bussed tables as the restaurant emptied out.

   • 2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 13:

     He was hired to bus tables, but after a few incidents they moved him to the kitchen.

5. (intransitive, US, food service) To work at clearing the remains of meals from tables or counters; to work as a busboy.

   He’s been bussing for minimum wage.

使用する際の注意点

The Canadian Oxford Dictionary only presents the spellings buses, busing, and bused, implying that these are the predominant forms in Canada.

派生語

• (clear meal remains): busboy

アナグラム

• SBU, UBS, USB, sub, sub-, sub.