| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To occupy, engage or take.[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Present participle 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] | |
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Date "BUSYING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references) |
Specialty Definition: busy
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Post & Telecom | Condition of a line or of a piece of apparatus when it is in use, or has been rendered unavailable for traffic. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Slang in 1811 | BUSY. As busy is the devil in a high wind; as busy as a hen with one chick. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | ||
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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: BUSYING
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Forward busying | Business | In a telecommunications system, a feature in which supervisory signals are forwarded in advance of address signals in order to seize assets of the system before attempting to establish a connection. (references) | |
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