Busful vs Bus - What's the difference?
busful | bus |
An amount sufficient to fill a bus.
* 1965 , Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 , The Penguin Press (2012), ISBN 9781101594605,
* 2012 , Ronald Vaughan Morris, History and Imagination: Reenactments for Elementary Social Studies , Rowman & Littlefield (2012), ISBN 9781610482974,
* 2013 , Serge Quadruppani, The Sudden Disappearance of Worker Bees , Arcade Publishing (2013; original French novel published 2011), ISBN 9781611458404,
(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.
As a noun busful
is an amount sufficient to fill a bus.As a verb bus is
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- Riding among an exhausted busful of Negroes going on to graveyard shifts all over the city,
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- I had a busful of fifth-grade students expecting a field trip.
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- Due to the arrival of a busful of Bavarian tourists, the noise in the hotel lobby was deafening.
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(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.
