Busing vs Busy - What's the difference?
busing | busy |
The transportation of schoolchildren, by bus, to schools in other neighbourhoods in order to alleviate social inequalities or to achieve racial integration.
Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.
* Shakespeare
Engaged in another activity or by someone else.
Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
Officious; meddling.
* 1603 , , IV. ii. 130:
To make somebody busy , to keep busy with, to occupy, to make occupied.
* On my vacation I'll busy myself with gardening.
To rush somebody.
A police officer.
As verbs the difference between busing and busy
is that busing is present participle of lang=en while busy is to make somebody busy, to keep busy with, to occupy, to make occupied.As nouns the difference between busing and busy
is that busing is the transportation of schoolchildren, by bus, to schools in other neighbourhoods in order to alleviate social inequalities or to achieve racial integration while busy is {{cx|slang|UK|Liverpool|derogatory|lang=en}} A police officer.As an adjective busy is
crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.busing
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Alternative forms
* bussingVerb
(head)Noun
(-)busy
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Adjective
(er)- a busy street
- To-morrow is a busy day.
- The director cannot see you now, he's busy .
- Her telephone has been busy all day.
- She is too busy to have time for riddles.
- Flowers, stripes, and checks in the same fabric make for a busy pattern.
- I will be hanged if some eternal villain, / Some busy and insinuating rogue, / Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office, / Have not devised this slander; I'll be hanged else.