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Meaning of "motorbus" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF MOTORBUS

ˈməʊtəˌbʌs


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MOTORBUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Motorbus is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MOTORBUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Motor bus

Motor bus or motorbus is a now somewhat archaic term referring to a bus powered by an onboard internal combustion engine, as opposed to a horse-drawn bus, steam bus or trolleybus. Motor buses began appearing on public roads shortly before the turn of the 20th century, and by 1905 were a significant feature of, e.g. the streets of London. They are now commonly referred to simply as "buses". The term "motor bus" continues in occasional use in North America, in particular when distinguishing internal-combustion-engined buses from trolleybuses, as North American English commonly regards the latter as a type of bus – and normally spells the term as two words, "trolley bus". In American English, motor coach is sometimes used as a synonym for "motor bus", as "trolley coach" is likewise considered a synonym for "trolley bus", but the "coach" variants of both terms are older terms that are now used much less commonly than the "bus" variants. "Motor coach" is not a synonym for motor bus in British English, where "coach" has a narrower meaning, but the meaning of "coach" in American English is more broad and can refer to a transit bus.

Definition of motorbus in the English dictionary

The definition of motorbus in the dictionary is a bus driven by an internal-combustion engine.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MOTORBUS

aerobus · Airbus · autobus · battlebus · blunderbuss · helibus · microbus · minibus · omnibus · playbus · postbus · railbus · trolleybus · waterbus

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MOTORBUS

motor vehicle · motor vessel · motor-assisted · motor-driven · motorable · motorail · motorbicycle · motorbike · motorboat · motorboater · motorcade · motorcar · motorcoach · motorcycle · motorcycle club · motorcycle combination · motorcycle engine · motorcycle racing · motorcycling · motorcyclist

WORDS THAT END LIKE MOTORBUS

Arbus · ceteris paribus · colobus · Columbus · Cottbus · globus · incubus · jacobus · Knights of Columbus · miss the bus · morbus · nimbus · Phoebus · rebus · rhombus · school bus · shuttle bus · sorbus · succubus · syllabus

Synonyms and antonyms of motorbus in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «motorbus» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF MOTORBUS

Find out the translation of motorbus to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of motorbus from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «motorbus» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

motorbus
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

motorbus
570 millions of speakers
en

English

motorbus
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

motorbus
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

motorbus
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

motorbus
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

motorbus
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

motorbus
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

autobus
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Motorbus
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Autobus
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

motorbus
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

motorbus
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Motorbus
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

xe ô tô buýt
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

விசைப் பொறியில்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

मोटारसायकल
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

otobüs
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

motorbus
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

motorbus
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

motorbus
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

motorbus
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

motorbus
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

motorbus
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

motorbus
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

motorbus
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of motorbus

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MOTORBUS»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about motorbus

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MOTORBUS»

Discover the use of motorbus in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to motorbus and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Census of Electrical Industries, 1902-: Street Railways and ...
Street Railways and Trolleybus and Motorbus Operations ... United States. Bureau of the Census. Page 20. Rolling stock of street-railway companies— Detailed statistics for cars and electric locomotives, by divisions and States: 1937 30 21.
United States. Bureau of the Census, 1939
2
Census of Electrical Industries: Street railways and trolley ...
MOTORBUS TRAFFIC (all passengers riding on weekly passes should be reported as revenue passengers. (lach сминая ‚Мин be answered. I. not applicable. wuts "None ") passengers are not registered or counted. include estimate of their ...
‎1939
3
Essays on Transport Economics
4.6.2 Street Railways and Motorbus Operators The conflict between street railways and local authorities over service extensions allowed for independent motorbus operators to compete with street railways. The typical U.S. motorbus company ...
Pablo Coto-Millán, Vicente Inglada, 2007
4
Statistical Abstract of the United States
Covers (a) local motorbus lines, (6) electric street railways, (c) elevated and subway lines, (d) lnterurban electric railways, and (e) trolley coach lines. Based on financial and statistical reports received by American Transit Association from  ...
‎1974
5
Engineering Management
Case 3. MOTORBUS COMPANY: Que Sera Sera Engineer Hermogenes Ancheta has just received his appointment papers from his new immediate superior, the Vice President for Operations. he has been promoted from Assistant Manager to  ...
R. Medina, 1982
6
International Negotiations: Confrontation, Competition, ...
Representative of Motorbus You have traditionally been – and still are – the backbone of Omnibus Industries. If it had not been for you, the whole company would not have become a world-famous name. A minor setback in the production and ...
Alexander Mühlen, 2010
7
Transportation Design Considerations: Selections from the ...
In 1958, 1,249 motorbus companies operated 50,100 buses over 104,500 miles of route, round trip, for a total of 1,594 million motorbus miles. Motorbus transit passengers had increased from 2,618 million in 1935 to 6,502 million in 1958, ...
‎1961
8
Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan
Tokyo Motorbus chose to paint their tour buses, slightly larger versions of their aflrectionately named “Blue Buses” (aoi basa), reddish brown. Because the color was too similar to that of vehicles for the Imperial family, they were repainted ...
Alisa Freedman, Laura Miller, Christine Yano, 2013
9
Urban Transit Systems and Technology
At about the turn of the century, the first successful applications of the internal combustion engine (ICE) to highway vehicles were achieved, providing the technological basis for a new vehicle, the motorbus, which would soon replace the horse ...
Vukan R. Vuchic, 2007
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A Methodology for Performance Measurement and Peer ...
Agency-wide Peer 2 Peer 3 Peer 4 Peer 5 Peer 6 2002 2003 2004 Figure 4. Outlying peer agency example. 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 Motorbus $0.00 $1.00 $2.00 $3.00 $4.00 $5.00 $6.00 $7.00 2002. 18% 16% 14 % 12% 0% ...
‎2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MOTORBUS»

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1
Bygones: Derby Corporation bus 111 took Mark Tittley back to his …
However, the star of the show for me was the 1952 Crossley-built Derby Corporation Motorbus number 111, pictured above, which was used to ... «Derby Telegraph, Jun 15»
2
More Transit Riders to Join NJ Transit Board?
... regular New Jersey Transit motorbus regular route service rider and one shall be a regular New Jersey Transit train or light rail vehicle rider. «Mobilizing the Region, Jun 15»
3
Adelman gets approval for latest Museum Reach project
Before breaking ground, the existing building — the former Terminal Motorbus Garage built in 1929 — will have to be demolished. The HDRC ... «mySanAntonio.com, Apr 15»
4
The changing face of Chaddesden, told in bus pictures
Corporation Daimler motorbus 156 down from the "Rocket", Perth Street, in 1978 seen at Sussex Circus. Bangor... SHARE PICTURE. Copy link ... «Derby Telegraph, Mar 15»
5
Bygones: Wilmot family parkland and hall bought up as housing …
... House and, by 1930, the area as far as Cardigan Street was sufficiently developed for a new motorbus service to be inaugurated to serve the ... «Derby Telegraph, Mar 15»
6
In memory of a trolleybus lover: service at Royal Berkshire Hospital
The core of the society was born when Mr Burrows, a 24-year-old Sutton Seeds employee, was taking an interest in a Regent II motorbus ... «getreading, Feb 15»
7
Two More Indians Jailed For Involvement in Singapore's Little India …
Rajendran joined a group of at least five others in committing violence against a motorbus on the road, by throwing objects such as a plastic ... «NDTV, Feb 15»
8
The Vision And Cunning Of An Unknown American Changed The …
If plans had been left to fester for ten more years, the rise of the motorbus would have made tunnelling under crowded streets seem even less ... «Business Insider, Dec 14»
9
Conquistador of Metroland
If plans had been left to fester for ten more years, the rise of the motorbus would have made tunnelling under crowded streets seem even less ... «The Economist, Dec 14»
10
Dolly Parton: 'There's more to me than the big hair and the phoney …
Her golden motorbus, Dolly I, is almost too brilliant to look at under the direct slap of a Tennessee sun. It is parked in a Nashville carpark, blinds ... «The Guardian, Dec 14»
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