busとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Clipping of omnibus. Superseded earlier 'bus, where the apostrophe indicated a clipping. The shift in spelling likely reflects the fact that modern speakers no longer perceive this term as a clipping. The electrical sense is derived from figurative application of the automotive sense.

発音

• IPA: /bʌs/, enPR: bŭs
  • (Northern England, Ireland) IPA: /bʊs/
  • (Scotland) IPA: /bʌs/
  • (General Australian, New Zealand, Mid-Atlantic, Philippines) IPA: /bɐs/
  • (Northern Cities Vowel Shift, Ireland) IPA: /bɔs/
  • (Birmingham, Black Country) IPA: /bʊz/
• 異形同音異義語: Buss, buss
• 韻: -ʌs

名詞

bus (plural buses or busses)

1. (automotive) A motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads.

   Synonyms: autobus, coach, loser cruiser, motorbus, motorcoach, omnibus, Shillibeer (obsolete)

   Hyponyms: booze bus, commuter bus, school bus, short bus

   1. (chiefly US, Canada) A coach, a bus used for long travels.
2. An electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components.

   Synonyms: busbar, digit trunk, electrical bus

   Hyponym: data bus

3. Part of a MIRV missile, having on-board motors used to deliver the warhead to a target.
4. (medical industry, slang) An ambulance.
5. (military slang, 1910s–1940s) An aeroplane.
6. (networking) A network topology with each computer connected to a single cable.

別の表記

• 'bus (archaic)

派生語

派生した語

動詞

bus (third-person singular simple present buss or busses, present participle busing or bussing, simple past and past participle bused or bussed)

1. (transitive, automotive, transport) To transport via a motor bus.
   • 2024 March 13, Halya Coynash, “Russians with machine guns ensure occupied Ukraine ‘votes’ for Putin”, in Human Rights in Ukraine. The Information Portal of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group‎:

     Machine guns are the most effective form of ‘election campaigning’, but the occupiers appear to also be bussing in ‘voters’ from the Russian Federation, and ‘registering total strangers in the homes of people forced to flee after the Russian invasion.

   • 2024 March 14, Clive Ndou, “ANC set to open case against ‘ghost IFP voters’”, in The Witness‎:

     The ANC has accused the IFP of bussing in voters from other wards to vote during the recent Newcastle Municipality by-election won by the IFP.

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”, in 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.

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.

語源 2

Back-formation from busboy.

動詞

bus (third-person singular simple present buss or busses, present participle busing or bussing, simple past and past participle bused or bussed)

1. (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.

2. (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.

派生語

参照

アナグラム

• SBU, UBS, USB, sub, sub-, sub.

発音

• IPA: /bɪz/
• 韻: -ɪz
• Homophone: biz

名詞

bus.

1. Abbreviation of business.
2. Abbreviation of bushel

アナグラム

• SBU, UBS, USB, sub, sub-, sub.