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Busing vs Busy - What's the difference?

busing | busy |

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

English

Alternative forms

* bussing

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (-)
  • The transportation of schoolchildren, by bus, to schools in other neighbourhoods in order to alleviate social inequalities or to achieve racial integration.
  • busy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.
  • a busy street
  • * Shakespeare
  • To-morrow is a busy day.
  • Engaged in another activity or by someone else.
  • 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.
  • Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
  • Flowers, stripes, and checks in the same fabric make for a busy pattern.
  • Officious; meddling.
  • * 1603 , , IV. ii. 130:
  • 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.

    Verb

  • 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.
  • Noun

    (busies)
  • A police officer.