omnibus

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A bus (vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads).

   “Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.”

2. isim An anthology of previously released material linked together by theme or author, especially in book form.

   “This work is an omnibus containing all books in the Remembrance of Earth’s Past series.”

3. isim A broadcast programme consisting of all of the episodes of a serial that have been shown in the previous week.

   “The omnibus edition of The Archers is broadcast every Sunday morning at 11.00.”

4. isim A stamp issue, usually commemorative, that appears simultaneously in several countries as a joint issue.
5. isim An assistant waiter.

   “A waiter is paid $25 a month. He must pay his omnibus himself. The hotel does not pay the omnibuses. By this arrangement it comes about in some hotels that a waiter pays his omnibus more than he himself receives from wages.”

6. isim an omnibus box.
7. sıfat Containing multiple items.

   “The legislature enacted an omnibus appropriations bill.”

8. sıfat Of a transportation service, calling at every station, as opposed to express; local.
9. fiil To combine (legislative bills, etc.) into a single package.

   “In the tax levy measure were omnibused all appropriations for the maintenance of government for the fiscal year.”

10. fiil To drive an omnibus.

    “I'm two shillings short of usual rainy-day fares, and not a passenger is out, I'm certain—least ways can I see him, if there was. It's nice business, omnibusing is—in summer time!”

11. fiil To travel or be transported by omnibus.