| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Buss.[Websters]
2. To have kissed, caressed, pecked or smooched. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have smacked. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To have lipped, mouthed, nosed, snouted or vented. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have saluted.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb buss.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (buss) | 1. Touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc..[Wordnet]. 2. To kiss; esp. to kiss with a smack, or rudely.[Websters]. 3. To lead, run, drag, cast or turn.[Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Base verb from the following inflections: bussing, bussed, busses, busser, bussers, bussingly and bussedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being necked.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "BUSSED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1518. (references) |
Specialty Definition: buss
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Literature | 1: Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida, iv. 5. 2: Buss To kiss. (Welsh, bus, the human lip; Gaelic, bus, the mouth; French, baiser, a kiss.) 3: Must kiss their own feet." 4: "You towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds,. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
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Common Expressions: buss
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Buss Island | Buss Island is a phantom island. It was discovered during the third expedition of Martin Frobisher in September 1578 by sailors aboard the Emmanuel and was put on maps as existing between Ireland and mythical Frisland at about 57° N. The island was named after the type of vessel that its discoverers used, a busse. It is believed that Frobisher took Greenland for Frisland and Baffin Island for Greenland and the Emmanuel, returning home, made a mistake in dead reckoning and mistook optical effects near Greenland at around 62° N for a new land. (references) | ||
| David Buss | David Buss is a professor of psychology at University of Texas, Austin. He received his Ph.D. in psychology at U.C. Berkeley in 1981. Before being a professor at University of Texas, he was assistant professor at Harvard University and he was a professor at the University of Michigan. (references) | ||
| Jerry Buss | Dr. Jerry Buss is a former real estate developer, a basketball team owner, and a poker player. At age 24, he completed his Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of Southern California. (references) | ||
| Leo Buss | Leo W. Buss is a Professor in Yale University's departments of geology, geophysics, and ecology and evolutionary biology. He is also the author of the influential evolutionary developmental biology book The Evolution of Individuality (ISBN 0691084688). His book approaches the subject of the evolution of metazoan development from a cell lineage selection point of view. He reevaluates August Weismann's model of the cell compartmentalization of somatic and germline cell lineages (see Weismann barrier) and argues that the vision of the individual taken by the modern synthesis is insufficient to explain the early evolution of development or ontogeny. (references) | ||
| Martin Buss | Martin Buss (born April 7, 1976) is a German high jumper who won the gold medal at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: buss
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Buss beggar | Slang in 1811 | BUSS BEGGAR. An old superannuated fumbler, whom none but beggars will suffer to kiss them. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
| Buss disease | Biology & Biotechnology | Disease caused by Chlamydia psittaci and characterized by inflammation of vessel walls, serous membranes and synoviae, with incidental involvement of nervous tissue in some cases. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Buss table | Mining | Shaking table for treatment of ore sands, comprising a deck supported by a Ferraris truss moved by eccentric. (references) | |
| Horse buss | Slang in 1811 | HORSE BUSS. A kiss with a loud smack; also a bite. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
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Abbreviations & Acronyms: buss
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | ||||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field | |
| BUSS | English | Buoy Underwater Sound Signal | N/A | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: buss | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Jerry Buss | 10 | Buss | 4 | |
| David Buss | 5 | Buss Island | 3 | |
| Frances Buss | 4 | David Buss | 5 | |
| Buss | 4 | Frances Buss | 4 | |
| Schau's Buss | 3 | Jerry Buss | 10 | |
| Leo Buss | 3 | Leo Buss | 3 | |
| Buss Island | 3 | Schau's Buss | 3 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
