Bus vs Schoolie - What's the difference?
bus | schoolie |
(automotive) A motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads.
An electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components.
(medical industry, slang) An ambulance.
(transitive, automotive, transport) To transport via a motor bus.
(transitive, automotive, transport, chiefly, US) To transport students to school, often to a more distant school for the purposes of achieving racial integration.
(intransitive, automotive, transport) To travel by bus.
(transitive, US, food service) To clear meal remains from.
(intransitive, US, food service) To work at clearing the remains of meals from tables or counters; to work as a busboy.
(Australia) A senior school student, especially a school-leaver, engaged in unsupervised celebrations during schoolies week.
* 1996 , John Cotterell, Social Networks and Social Influences in Adolescence ,
* 2007 , John Chalmers, Byron Bay Taxis and Lunacies ,
* 2009 , Justine Vaisutis, Australia , Lonely Planet,
* 2010 , Garry Disher, Blood Moon ,
(Australia) A schoolteacher.
(UK, military) An education officer.
* 2008 , John H. Dunning, Seasons of a Scholar: Some Personal Reflections of an International Business Economist ,
(US) A bass that swims in a school.
* 1997 August, Lawrence Pine, Massachusetts?s Plymouth Rock Bass'', '' ,
* 2003 , Larry Larsen, Amazon Peacock Bass Fishing: Top Tactics for Top Locations ,
* 2009 , Tom Rosenbauer, Nick Lyons, The Orvis Guide to Beginning Fly Fishing: 101 Tips for the Absolute Beginner ,
As a verb bus
is .As a noun schoolie is
(australia) a senior school student, especially a school-leaver, engaged in unsupervised celebrations during schoolies week.bus
English
(wikipedia bus)Noun
(en-noun)Synonyms
* (vehicle) coach, loser cruiser, motorbus, omnibus * (electrical conductor) electrical bus, busbar, digit trunkDerived terms
{{der3, booze bus , busbar , bus duct , bus lane , short bus , bus route , bus stop , bustitution , back end of a bus, look like the back end of a bus}}Verb
- He bussed tables as the restaurant emptied out.
- He’s been bussing for minimum wage.
Usage notes
The Canadian Oxford Dictionary only presents the spellings (buses), (busing), and (bused), implying that these are the predominant forms in Canada.Derived terms
* (clear meal remains) busboyschoolie
English
Alternative forms
* Schoolie * schoolyNoun
(en noun)page 176,
- Known as the Drug Awareness Network, it was able to find funding assistance for its work from the National Drug Education unit. The network devised a programme of activities which was later advertised to intending Schoolies by helpers walking the streets and distributing leafets containing information about forthcoming events.
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- Some of the locals prey on the Schoolies .
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- If staying in November or December, the place is filled with hundreds of schoolies .
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- But the victim in this case had been a schoolie', she?d been assaulted during Schoolies Week, and her attacker might have been a fellow ' schoolie .
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- Arbroath, being a training station for young naval airmen, also housed several ‘schoolies'’ (education officers), four of whom lived in an adjacent building to mine. I quickly struck up a close friendship with two of the ' schoolies , Ron Horner and Vivian Price.
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- Poppers and Clouser-style flies can produce large numbers of schoolies that average 16 to 24 inches, with a sprinkling of fish from 24 to 28 inches.
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- Oklahomans Jim Campbell and Gary Tyler caught 123 peacocks (including two teeners) by concentrating on the schoolies with jigs and other small lures that day.
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- Schoolies tend to concentrate inside harbors and along beaches, often moving far inside tidal creeks and salt ponds.
