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Penance vs Bus - What's the difference?

penance | bus |

As verbs the difference between penance and bus

is that penance is to impose penance; to punish while bus is .

As a noun penance

is a voluntary self-imposed punishment for a sinful act or wrongdoing it may be intended to serve as reparation for the act.

penance

English

(wikipedia penance)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A voluntary self-imposed punishment for a sinful act or wrongdoing. It may be intended to serve as reparation for the act.
  • * Coleridge
    • Quoth he, "The man hath penance done, / And penance more will do."
  • A sacrament in some Christian churches.
  • (obsolete) repentance
  • (obsolete) pain; sorrow; suffering
  • * Chaucer
    • Joy or penance he feeleth none.

    Quotations

    * 2009 : Stuart Heritage], [http://www.hecklerspray.com/ Hecklerspray] , Friday the 22nd of May in 2009 at 1 o’clock p.m., “[http://www.hecklerspray.com/jon-kate-latest-people-you-dont-know-do-crap-you-dont-care-about/200934378.php Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About” *: You know all this kerfuffle about Jordan and Peter Andre, and how you don’t know if they’re really splitting up or it’s just an act, and how you can’t be bothered to find out because wasting even a fraction of your brainpower on those bright orange clueless dicksplats would make you just as bad as them and you’d feel duty-bound to fling yourself under an industrial threshing machine as penance ? You do? Good.

    Related terms

    * penitent

    Verb

    (penanc)
  • To impose penance; to punish.
  • * Keats
    • Some penanced lady elf.

    bus

    English

    (wikipedia bus)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (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.

    • Synonyms

    * (vehicle) coach, loser cruiser, motorbus, omnibus * (electrical conductor) electrical bus, busbar, digit trunk

    Derived 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

  • (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.
    • He bussed tables as the restaurant emptied out.
  • (intransitive, US, food service) To work at clearing the remains of meals from tables or counters; to work as a busboy.
    • 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) busboy

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