Synonyms of the word bus


BUSAUTO - AUTOBUS - AUTOMOBILE - BUSBAR - CAR - CHARABANC - COACH - CONDUCTOR - DOUBLE-DECKER - DYSPHEMISM - HEAP - JALOPY - JITNEY - MACHINE - MOTORBUS - MOTORCAR - MOTORCOACH - OMNIBUS - RIDE - TOPOLOGY - TRANSPORT

bus

  • n. (automotive) A motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads.
  • n. An electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components.
  • n. (medical industry, slang) An ambulance.
  • v. (transitive, automotive, transport) To transport via a motor bus.
  • v. (transitive, automotive, transport, chiefly US) To transport students to school, often to a more distant…
  • v. (intransitive, automotive, transport) To travel by bus.
  • v. (transitive, US, food service) To clear meal remains from.
  • v. (intransitive, US, food service) To work at clearing the remains of meals from tables or counters; to…

auto

  • adj. automatic (of a gearbox / transmission).
  • n. (chiefly attributively) An automobile.
  • n. A setting for automatic operation.
  • n. A writ.
  • n. An automatic gearbox / transmission.
  • n. A car with an automatic gearbox / transmission.
  • n. (India) An autorickshaw.

autobus

  • n. (dated) A bus that is a motor vehicle, as opposed to earlier horse-drawn buses.
  • n. (cycling) The group of cyclists in a race who form a large group behind the leading peloton.

automobile

  • n. (US, Canada) A type of vehicle designed to move on the ground under its own stored power and intended…
  • v. (dated) To travel by automobile.

busbar

  • n. An electrical conductor that carries a large current, especially one that is part of a power distribution…

car

  • n. (obsolete) A turn.
  • n. A wheeled vehicle that moves independently, with at least three wheels, powered mechanically, steered…
  • n. (dated) A wheeled vehicle, drawn by a horse or other animal; a chariot.
  • n. (rail transport, chiefly Canada, US) An unpowered unit in a railroad train.
  • n. (rail transport) an individual vehicle, powered or unpowered, in a multiple unit.
  • n. (rail transport) A passenger-carrying unit in a subway or elevated train, whether powered or not.
  • n. A rough unit of quantity approximating the amount which would fill a railroad car.
  • n. The moving, load-carrying component of an elevator or other cable-drawn transport mechanism.
  • n. The passenger-carrying portion of certain amusement park rides, such as Ferris wheels.
  • n. The part of an airship, such as a balloon or dirigible, which houses the passengers and control apparatus.
  • n. (sailing) A sliding fitting that runs along a track.
  • n. (uncountable, US) The aggregate of desirable characteristics of a car.
  • n. (US) A floating perforated box for living fish.
  • n. (computing) The first part of a cons in LISP. The first element of a list.

charabanc

  • n. (Britain) A horse-drawn, and then later, motorized omnibus with open sides, and often, no roof.
  • v. (rare, transitive, intransitive) To travel or convey by charabanc.

coach

  • n. A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.
  • n. (rail transport, Britain, Australia) A passenger car, either drawn by a locomotive or part of a multiple…
  • n. (originally Oxford University slang) A trainer or instructor.
  • n. (Britain, Australia) A single decked long-distance, or privately hired, bus.
  • n. (nautical) The forward part of the cabin space under the poop deck of a sailing ship; the fore-cabin under…
  • n. (chiefly US) That part of a commercial passenger airplane reserved for those paying the lower standard…
  • v. (sports) To train.
  • v. (transitive) To instruct; to train.
  • v. (intransitive) To travel in a coach (sometimes coach it).
  • v. (transitive) To convey in a coach.

conductor

  • n. One who conducts or leads; a guide; a director.
  • n. (music) A person who conducts an orchestra, choir or other music ensemble; a professional whose occupation…
  • n. A person who takes tickets on public transportation and also helps passengers.
  • n. Something that can transmit electricity, heat, light or sound.
  • n. (mathematics) An ideal of a ring that measures how far it is from being integrally closed.
  • n. A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, such as lithontriptic forceps; a director.
  • n. (architecture) A leader.

double-decker

  • n. A vehicle, usually a bus or coach, with two decks.

dysphemism

  • n. (uncountable) The use of a derogatory, offensive or vulgar word or phrase to replace a (more) neutral…
  • n. (countable) A word or phrase that is used to replace another in this way.

heap

  • n. A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
  • n. A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
  • n. A great number or large quantity of things.
  • n. (computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
  • n. (computing) Memory that is dynamically allocated.
  • n. (colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle.
  • n. (colloquial) A lot, a large amount.
  • v. (transitive) To pile in a heap.
  • v. (transitive) To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
  • v. (transitive) To supply in great quantity.

jalopy

  • n. (US) An old, dilapidated vehicle.

jitney

  • n. A small bus or minibus which typically operates service on a fixed route, sometimes scheduled.
  • n. An unlicensed taxi cab.
  • n. A shared-ride taxi.
  • n. (US, archaic) A small coin, a nickel.
  • n. (in attributive use, US, archaic) Very inexpensive.
  • n. (Canada) An informal lawn bowling competition in which all players present are randomly drawn into teams…
  • n. A fraudulent arrangement whereby a broker who has direct access to an exchange executes trades on behalf…

machine

  • n. A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a…
  • n. (dated) A vehicle operated mechanically, such as an automobile or an airplane.
  • n. (telephony, abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.
  • n. (computing) A computer.
  • n. (figuratively) A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient,…
  • n. Especially, the group that controls a political or similar organization; a combination of persons acting…
  • n. Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
  • n. (politics, chiefly US) The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially…
  • n. (euphemistic, obsolete) Penis.
  • v. to make by machinery.
  • v. to shape or finish by machinery.

motorbus

  • n. A motorised bus, or coach.

motorcar

  • n. An enclosed passenger vehicle powered by an engine.

motorcoach

  • n. A motorised bus, or coach.

omnibus

  • n. (dated) A vehicle set up to carry many people (now usually called a bus).
  • n. An anthology of previously released material linked together by theme or author, especially in book form.
  • n. A broadcast programme consisting of all of the episodes of a serial that have been shown in the previous…
  • n. (philately) A stamp issue, usually commemorative, that appears simultaneously in several countries as…
  • adj. Containing multiple items.
  • v. (transitive) To combine (legislative bills, etc.) into a single package.

ride

  • v. (intransitive, transitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle…
  • v. (intransitive, transitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
  • v. (transitive, chiefly US and South Africa) To transport (someone) in a vehicle.
  • v. (intransitive) Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such…
  • v. (intransitive) To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.
  • v. (intransitive, transitive) To mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with.
  • v. (transitive, colloquial) To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).
  • v. (intransitive) Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.
  • v. (intransitive) To rely, depend (on).
  • v. (intransitive) Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body).
  • v. (lacrosse) To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
  • v. To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
  • v. To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
  • v. (surgery) To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
  • n. An instance of riding.
  • n. (informal) A vehicle.
  • n. An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.
  • n. A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.
  • n. (Britain) A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
  • n. (Britain, dialect, archaic) A saddle horse.
  • n. (Ireland) A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.

topology

  • n. (mathematics) A branch of mathematics studying those properties of a geometric figure or solid that are…
  • n. (mathematics) A collection τ of subsets of a set X such that the empty set and X are both members of τ…
  • n. (medicine) The anatomical structure of part of the body.
  • n. (computing) The arrangement of nodes in a communications network.
  • n. (technology) The properties of a particular technological embodiment that are not affected by differences…
  • n. (topography) The topographical study of geographic locations or given places in relation to their history.
  • n. (dated) The art of, or method for, assisting the memory by associating the thing or subject to be remembered…

transport

  • v. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.
  • v. (historical) To deport to a penal colony.
  • v. (figuratively) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.
  • n. An act of transporting; conveyance.
  • n. The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.
  • n. A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.).
  • n. (Canada) A tractor-trailer.
  • n. The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system.
  • n. A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.
  • n. (historical) A deported convict.

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