different between coach vs buss

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French coche, from German Kutsche, from Hungarian kocsi. According to historians, the coach was named after the small Hungarian town of Kocs, which made a livelihood from cart building and transport between Vienna and Budapest.

The meaning "instructor/trainer" is from Oxford University slang (c. 1830) for a "tutor" who "carries" one through an exam; the athletic sense is from 1861.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k??t?/, [k????t?]
• (US) IPA^(key): /ko?t?/, [k?o??t?]
• Rhymes: -??t?

Noun

coach (plural coaches)

1. A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.

   Synonym: carriage

2. (rail transport, Britain, Australia) A passenger car, either drawn by a locomotive or part of a multiple unit.

   Synonym: carriage

4. (originally Oxford University slang) A trainer or instructor.
5. (Britain, Australia) A long-distance, or privately hired, bus.
6. (nautical) The forward part of the cabin space under the poop deck of a sailing ship; the fore-cabin under the quarter deck.

   • The commanders all came on board and the council sat in the coach.

7. (chiefly US) The part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; the economy section.

Derived terms

Related terms

• coachee

Descendants

Translations

Verb

coach (third-person singular simple present coaches, present participle coaching, simple past and past participle coached)

1. (intransitive, sports) To train.
2. (transitive) To instruct; to train.

3. (intransitive) To study under a tutor.
4. (intransitive) To travel in a coach (sometimes coach it).
   • 1653, Edward Waterhouse, A humble Apologie for Learning and Learned Men

     Affecting genteel fashions, coaching it to all quarters

5. (transitive) To convey in a coach.

   • The needy poet sticks to all he meets,
     Coached, carted, trod upon, now loose, now fast.
     And carried off in some dog's tail at last

Adverb

coach (not comparable)

1. (chiefly US) Via the part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; via the economy section.

Derived terms

• coachability

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Cacho, Chaco, chaco

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English coach.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko?t?/
• (Belgium) IPA^(key): [ko?t?]
• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): [ko??t?]
• Hyphenation: coach

Noun

coach m (plural coaches or coachen, diminutive coachje n)

1. trainer, instructor, tutor, coach
2. counselor

Derived terms

• bondscoach
• coachen

Related terms

• koets

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English coach.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kot?/

Noun

coach m (plural coachs)

1. coach, trainer, instructor

Derived terms

• coacher

Further reading

• “coach” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• cocha

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English coach.

Noun

coach m (invariable)

1. coach (sports instructor)

Polish

Etymology

From English coach.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?wt??/

Noun

coach m pers

1. (sports) coach, trainer (person who trains another)
2. (psychology) coach, instructor

   Synonym: trener

Declension

Noun

coach m inan

1. coachwork

Declension

Related terms

• (noun) coaching
• (adjective) coachingowy

Further reading

• coach in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• coach in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English coach. Doublet of coche.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kot??/, [?kot??]

Noun

coach m (plural coaches)

1. (sports) coach

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English coach.

Noun

coach c

1. coach; a trainer or instructor

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?s/

Homophone: bus

• Rhymes: -?s

Etymology 1

Origin uncertain; possibly ultimately imitative. Compare Persian ???? (b?s, “kiss”) and Latin basium (“kiss”).

Noun

buss (plural busses)

1. (archaic) A kiss.

Synonyms

• (kiss): see Thesaurus:buss

Verb

buss (third-person singular simple present busses, present participle bussing, simple past and past participle bussed)

1. (transitive) To kiss (either literally or figuratively).
   • c. 1616, William Shakespeare, King John, (1623) iii, iv p35:

     I will thinke thou smil'st, And busse thee as thy wife.

   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 189:

     As the repatriated explorer dodges down to buss the earth […] he is so thoroughly caught up in the rhapsody of the moment that he fails to take into account the traffic behind him.

   • 2007, Fiddlehead, Winter 61:

     Sam...really was six-ten and his head bussed the ceiling.

2. (intransitive) To kiss.
   • 2007, James Isaiah Gabbe, LaRue's Maneuvers, Chapter 10, LaRue, The Blue Light, p259-60:

     In the faint glow of a single blue bulb hanging from a clothesline they bussed and fondled.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:kiss

Etymology 2

From Dutch haringbuis.

Noun

buss (plural busses)

1. A herring buss, a type of shallow-keeled Dutch fishing boat used especially for herring fishing.

Etymology 3

Noun

buss (plural busses)

1. Archaic form of bus (“passenger vehicle”).
   • 1838, Charles Dickens, "Omnibuses", Sketches by Boz

     We will back the machine in which we make our daily peregrination from the top of Oxford-street to the city, against any buss on the road, whether it be for the gaudiness of its exterior, the perfect simplicity of its interior, or the native coolness of its cad.

Anagrams

• USBs, subs

Estonian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

buss (genitive bussi, partitive bussi)

1. bus, a vehicle to transport people

Declension

Synonyms

• autobuss

Derived terms

• autobuss
• bussijaam
• bussipeatus
• mikrobuss
• minibuss
• trollibuss
• väikebuss

Faroese

Noun

buss

1. accusative singular of bussur
2. genitive singular of bussur

Latvian

Noun

buss m (1st declension)

1. (slang) bus (vehicle)

Declension

Synonyms

• autobuss

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Either a direct shortening of Latin omnibus (“for all”), dative plural of omnis (“all”), or from English bus, itself a shortening of the Latin word.

Noun

buss m (definite singular bussen, indefinite plural busser, definite plural bussene)

1. bus (vehicle)

   Tar du buss til skolen?

   Do you get to school by bus? (literally: "do you take bus to the school?")

   Jeg gråter heller i en Mercedes enn på bussen, for å si det sånn. (Anne-Kat. Hærland)

   I'd rather cry in a Mercedes than on the bus, to put it that way.

Derived terms

See also

• omnibus
• bil

Etymology 2

Uncertain, perhaps akin to butt, "blunt, thick, rounded".

Noun

buss m (definite singular bussen, indefinite plural busser, definite plural bussene)

1. a quid of chewing tobacco

Usage notes

Rarely used.

References

• “buss” in The Ordnett Dictionary
• “buss” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “bus”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Either a direct shortening of Latin omnibus, "for all", dative plural of omnis, "all", or from English bus, itself a shortening of the Latin word.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?s?/

Noun

buss m (definite singular bussen, indefinite plural bussar, definite plural bussane)

1. bus (vehicle)

   Tek du buss til skulen?

   Do you get to school by bus? (literally: "do you take bus to the school?")

   Ein buss er eit kjøretøy som er utforma for å frakte ei mengd passasjerar over ein distanse på veg eller gate. (from Nynorsk edition of Wikipedia)

   A bus is a vehicle designed to transport a group of passengers for a distance along a road or a street.

Derived terms

See also

• omnibus
• bil

Etymology 2

Uncertain, perhaps akin to butt, "blunt, thick, rounded".

Noun

buss m (definite singular bussen, indefinite plural bussar, definite plural bussane)

1. a quid of chewing tobacco

Usage notes

Rarely used.

Etymology 3

Perhaps from Low German or Dutch, compare boezem and its English cognate and equivalent bosom.

Alternative forms

• bus

Noun

buss m (definite singular bussen, indefinite plural bussar, definite plural bussane)

1. The middel, curved part of a filled sail, fishing net or seine.

Usage notes

Very rarely used.

Etymology 4

From Low German busse, "short case or ring of metal for lining of an axle, shaft or bolt".

Noun

buss m (definite singular bussen, indefinite plural bussar, definite plural bussane)

1. a hopper in a mill
2. an iron ring surrounding such a hopper

References

• “buss” in The Ordnett Dictionary
• “buss” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “bus”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Skolt Sami

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

buss

1. bus

Inflection

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?s/

Adjective

buss (not comparable)

1. (dated) like an old friend

   att vara buss med någon

   to be an old friend of someone

Related terms

• bussig

Interjection

buss

1. command to a dog to attack: get, bite, catch

   buss på tjuven!

   get the thief!

Noun

buss c

1. a bus, a vehicle to transport people.

   kommer inte bussen snart?

   doesn't the bus ever arrive?

2. (computing) a bus
3. an (old) soldier or sailor
4. a portion of chewing tobacco

   han spottade ut bussen som han hade tuggat på

   he spat out the tobacco he'd been chewing

Declension

Related terms

References

• buss in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• subs