bus line
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1.1
- noun
- /bʌs laɪn/
:
línea de autobús
- I rely on the bus line to get to work every day, as it runs right past my house.
Examples
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They shut down the whole bus line.
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We didn't have a car, but we lived on the bus line and took the bus.
Blog text (34) -
See you at the bus line after school.
Fiction book (1993) -
The situation is getting tense with the threat of the bus line being shut down.
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I hate to tell you this, but they canceled this bus line two years ago.
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I read that they're going to shut down our bus line.
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It's not a major bus line, so you'll be able to find a quiet seat to enjoy your ride.
Blog text (19) -
In addition to these, city residents rely on hundreds of bus lines, both publicly and privately operated.
Blog text (30) -
NEHA has contracted with a bus line that runs on alternative fuel that will transport guests to and from the UL event.
Academic text (2010) -
Update 51: The NYC subway is still offline, but bus lines are coming back to life.
Blog text (15)
Synonyms
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1.6
A company that runs buses to carry people in a town or city
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly built from 'bus' (a vehicle for public transport) + 'line' (a route or service), so the compound denotes a bus route/service or the organization operating it. This compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically (e.g., Spanish 'línea de autobús') and would be inferable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Bus line comes from the simple picture of a line on a map or a line of buses following the same road. It names the company or service that runs those buses along a fixed path, so it means 'an organization that operates buses on set routes'.