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Tram vs Omnibus - What's the difference?

tram | omnibus |

In transitive terms the difference between tram and omnibus

is that tram is to transport (material) by tram while omnibus is to combine (legislative bills, etc.) into a single package.

As an adjective omnibus is

containing multiple items.

tram

English

Etymology 1

Probably from (etyl) trame. The popular derivation from tramway builder is false: the term pre-dated him.

Noun

(wikipedia tram) (en noun)
  • (UK, rail transport) A passenger vehicle for public use that runs on tracks in the road.
  • A similar vehicle for carrying materials.
  • * 1789 , , centenary edition, 1971, ISBN 304-93570-0.)
    • Trams''' are a kind of sledge on which coals are brought from the place where they are hewn to the shaft. A '''tram has four wheels but a sledge is without wheels.
  • (obsolete) The shaft of a cart.
    • (De Quincey)
  • (obsolete) One of the rails of a tramway.
  • (UK, obsolete) A car on a horse railroad.
    • Synonyms
    * (passenger vehicle) streetcar
    Derived terms
    * shoot through like a Bondi tram * tramline * tramway
    See also
    * cablecar * light rail * streetcar * trolley car

    Verb

    (tramm)
  • To transport (material) by tram.

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl) trama weft, or (etyl) trame.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A silk thread formed of two or more threads twisted together, used especially for the weft, or cross threads, of the best quality of velvets and silk goods.

    • Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words ----

    omnibus

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia omnibus)
  • (lb) A vehicle set up to carry many people (now usually called a bus).
  • *
  • *:Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus , cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.
  • *1911',
  • *:"Please, is that an omnibus ?" / "Omnibus est," said the driver, without turning round.
  • *1959 , (Michael Flanders), (At the Drop of a Hat)
  • *:Omnibus , my friend Mr. Swann informs me, comes from the Latin omnibus , meaning to or for by with or from everybody, which is a very good description. Well, this song is about a bus, it's wittily subtitled—I thought of this—'A Transport of Delight'.
  • *1988 , (Rowan Atkinson) as Ebenezer Blackadder in "(w, Blackadder's Christmas Carol) ", written by (Richard Curtis) and (Ben Elton):
  • *:Baldrick, I want you to take this [money] and go out, and buy a turkey so large you'd think its mother had been rogered by an omnibus .
  • An anthology of previously released material linked together by theme or author, especially in book form.
  • A broadcast programme consisting of all of the episodes of a serial that have been shown in the previous week.
  • :
  • (lb) A stamp issue, usually commemorative, that appears simultaneously in several countries as a joint issue.

    • Derived terms

    * bus

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Containing multiple items.
    • The legislature enacted an omnibus appropriations bill.

    Verb

  • To combine (legislative bills, etc.) into a single package.
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