Bus Bʌs I Walk Regular Station Town People

• shall we walk or go by bus?
• a regular bus service connects the train station with the town centre.
• a bus company/driver
• a school bus

bus

1. a large road vehicle that carries passengers, especially one that travels along a fixed route and stops regularly to let people get on and off
• compare coach
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/coach_1
• Shall we walk or go by bus?
• A regular bus service connects the train station with the town centre.
• a bus company/driver
• a school bus
2. a set of wires that carries information from one part of a computer system to another
• See related entries: Computer hardware
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/computer_hardware/bus_1
3. to make somebody else suffer in order to save yourself or gain an advantage for yourself
• Plenty of my co-workers are satisfied to throw everyone else under the bus as long as they keep their wages.

Extra Examples

• I left work a bit late and had to run for my bus.
• I missed the last bus and had to walk.
• I waited 40 minutes for a bus.
• Is this the bus for Oxford?
• It’s about 15 minutes away by bus.
• Local buses run regularly to and from the campus.
• Look up the bus schedule on the Internet.
• Look up the bus times in the local timetable.
• The bus left the city, heading north.
• The bus pulled up and we got on.
• The buses stop outside the post office.
• The double-decker bus stopped to pick up some more passengers.
• There are regular buses to the beach.
• We took the bus from Reading to Bristol.
• a bus carrying 56 passengers
• a four-hour bus journey over the mountains
• a short bus journey to work
• people travelling on buses
• people who travel on buses
• the bus from Charlottesville to Union Station
• the bus into town
• Have you got a bus timetable?
• I was waiting at the bus stop.
• It’s a short bus ride from here.
• Shall we walk or go by bus?
• The map shows all the local bus routes.
• There is a bus, the number 18, which stops outside the house.
• When we go on a double-decker bus the children always want to sit upstairs.

Word Origin

• early 19th cent.: shortening of omnibus.