| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Busy.[Websters]
2. To be animated, impassioned or spirited. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have keened, alerted, sharped or warmed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To have fulled or rounded. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have worked. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To have filled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have occupied or engaged. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To have tasked, exercised or commissioned. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have activated or encouraged.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb busy.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Base (busily) | 1. In a busy manner; "they were busily engaged in buying souvenirs".[Wordnet]. 2. In a busy manner.[Websters]. 3. In a restless manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 4. In an alive, energetic, hardworking, astir or active manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 5. In a decisive, sharp, smart or vehement manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 6. In an efficient or effective manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 7. In a buoyant, brisk, radioactive or proactive manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 8. In a diligent, industrious or operative manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 9. In a potent, vigorous or strenuous manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Adverbial inflection of the adjective busy.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (busy) | 1. Keep busy with.[Wordnet]. 2. Keep busy with; "She busies herself with her butterfly collection".[Wordnet]. 3. To make or keep busy; to employ; to engage or keep engaged; to occupy; as, to busy one's self with books.[Websters]. 4. Base verb from the following inflections: busying, busied, busies, busier, busiers, busyingly and busiedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "BUSIED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Specialty Definition: BUSIED
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] of busy; pron. biz'zied.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Simple past tense and past participle of busy. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: busy
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Busy bee | An alert and energetic person. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Busy Lizzie | The Busy Lizzie (Impatiens walleriana), also known as a Balsam, is a species of Impatiens native to eastern Africa from Tanzania to Mozambique. It is a herbaceous perennial plant growing to 15-60 cm tall, with broad lanceolate leaves 3-12 cm long and 2-5 cm broad. The flowers are profusely borne, 2-5 cm diameter, with five petals. (references) | ||
| Busy signal (telephony) | A busy signal (or engaged tone) in telephony is an audible or visual signal to the calling party that indicates failure to complete the requested connection of that particular telephone call. (references) | ||
| Busy work | Busy work is a critical term for schoolwork or homework that keeps students occupied without teaching anything constructive or interesting. Examples might include crossword puzzles featuring lists of specialized vocabulary words: while learning jargon or terminology may be important, the method of a crossword puzzle is unlikely to help students appreciate and comprehend vocabulary words. (references) | ||
| How to keep a genius busy for hours | How to keep a genius busy for hours refers to a joke often involving confusing a person by presenting them with a logical contradiction. This is usually a small card with "The statement on the other side of this card is true" printed on one side and "The statement on the other side of this card is false". This is a variation of the Liar paradox. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: busy
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| All trunks busy | Post & Telecom | A condition of the telephone switching system where all paths to or from a particular exchange are occupied. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| All trunks busy signal | Electrical Engineering | A tone advising the caller that the groups of lines or switching equipment necessary for the setting-up of the required call or for the use of a specific service are temporarily engaged. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Business, Busy | Literature | 1: Saxon, bysgian, the verb, bysig (busy); Dutch, bezigen; German, besorgniss (care, management); sorge (care); Saxon, seogan (to see). From the German sorgen we get the French soigner (to look after something), soigne, and be-sogne (business, or that which is our care and concern), with be-soin (something looked after but not found, hence "want"); the Italian besognio (a beggar). 2: The equivalent Latin phrase is "Satagis tamquam mus in matella." (See Similes.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Busy back | Business | Deprecated term. See busy signal. (references) | |
| Busy Beaver | Computing | ||
| Busy beaver | Math | (1) A Turing machine with a small number of states which halts when started with a blank tape, but which writes a huge number of non-blanks or takes a huge number of steps. (2) The problem of finding the maximum number of non-blanks written or steps taken for any Turing machines with a given number of states and symbols. (references) | |
| Busy bee | Health | PCP. (references) | |
| Busy hour | Post & Telecom | 1: In a communications system, the sliding 60-minute period during which occurs the maximum total traffic load in a given 24-hour period. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| 2: The uninterrupted period of 60 minutes for which the traffic is at the maximum. Source: European Union. (references) | |||
| Busy override | Public Administration | Break-in facility granted to specific extensions of a PABX. (PH/PTIH). Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Busy season | Business | During a 1-year cycle, the period of 3 consecutive months having the highest busy hour traffic. (references) | |
| Busy signal | Business | 1) In telephony, an audible or visual signal that indicates that no transmission path to the called number is available. Synonym busy tone. 2) In telephony, an audible or visual signal that indicates that the called number is occupied or otherwise unavailable. Synonym reorder tone. (references) | |
| Busy study | Computing | The obtaining of information from a study of communications traffic. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Busy test | Business | In telephony, a test made to determine whether certain facilities, such as a subscriber line or a central office trunk, are available for use. (references) | |
| Busy tone | Business | Synonym busy signal. (references) | |
| Busy tone | Post & Telecom | An audible signal given to a calling party to indicate that the required circuit or the intermediate apparatus used in setting up the connection is busy. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Busy verification | Business | In a public switched telephone network, a network-provided service feature that permits an attendant to verify the busy or idle state of station lines and to break into the conversation. Note: A 440-Hz tone is applied to the line for 2 seconds, followed by a 0.5-second burst every 10 seconds, to alert both parties that the attendant is connected to the circuit. (references) | |
| Call-back when busy termination installation becomes free | Post & Telecom | A facility which enables the originator of a call attempt to a busy terminal installation to request the network to establish the call when the busy terminal installation becomes free. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Camp-on busy | Post & Telecom | A feature of some automatic switching systems which lets the calling party wait when the called line is found to be busy, and puts the waiting call through automatically when the called party's line becomes free. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Completion of calls to busy subscribers | Post & Telecom | The supplementary service which allows a calling mobile subscriber, encountering a busy called destination to have the call completed when the busy destination becomes not busy, without having to make a new call attempt. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Make busy | Computing | The removing of a circuit from service. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Number of busy seize attempts | Post & Telecom | The number of times a mobile station attempts to seize a reverse control channel and finds the reverse control channel busy. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Slow busy | Electrical Engineering | The audible signal returned when the called number is in-service. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Telephone busy signal | Electrical Engineering | A signal indicating that the called line is engaged. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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