What's the difference between bus and minibus?

Bus


Definition:

  • (n.) An omnibus.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
  • (2) The information about her father's semi-brainwashing forms an interesting backdrop to Malala's comments when I ask if she ever wonders about the man who tried to kill her on her way back from school that day in October last year, and why his hands were shaking as he held the gun – a detail she has picked up from the girls in the school bus with her at the time; she herself has no memory of the shooting.
  • (3) I’m very sorry.” Who is Billy Bush: the man egging on Trump in tape about groping women Read more Trump and Bush had been on a bus headed to the set of the soap opera Days of Our Lives, in which Trump was set to make a cameo.
  • (4) There can’t be something, someone that could fix this and chooses not to.” Years of agnosticism and an open attitude to religious beliefs thrust under the bus, acknowledging the shame that comes from sitting down with those the world forgot.
  • (5) He is joined by Cathy O’Toole, the ALP candidate for the crucial swing seat of Herbert where Rudd’s campaign bus has stopped on Sunday evening.
  • (6) Scoble shook his head, suggesting that by showing his Glass to "more than 600 people: bus drivers, school teachers..." he (and thus Google) is getting feedback from a wider demographic group.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A bus belching smoke in Bogotá Pretty dirty.
  • (8) Violence also flared before the game when 300 Torino fans tried to block the Juventus team bus from entering the stadium compound and threw stones at the vehicle, breaking one of its windows.
  • (9) This question was answered, from the standpoint of human postures, by observing the antagonistic postures exhibited by a bus-driver and a passenger, and also by the findings in postrotatory eye nystagmus (an indication of artificial motion sickness) which was varied according to the three different positions of the head.
  • (10) After eating, the report says, Castro "returned to the bus and drove around for a while.
  • (11) Measurements were carried out in a street reserved for diesel-engine bus traffic for concentrations of suspended dust, the distribution of aerosol particles according to size (0.01-25 microns) and the CO, HC and NOx concentrations.
  • (12) In August, the capital came to a standstill as terrified workers were forced to stay home after gang leaders orchestrated a forced public transport boycott by killing a dozen bus drivers in response to a crackdown by authorities against organised crime.
  • (13) It’s one of the social benefits government bestows on the old, like free bus passes and the winter fuel allowance,” she added.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Passengers arriving at the main bus station can borrow a bike all day for free.
  • (15) Bloody errors at civilians' expense, as recorded in the logs, include the day French troops strafed a bus full of children in 2008, wounding eight.
  • (16) It appears to be as much about educating and inspiring young people through its direct work on the bus tour.
  • (17) Val Shawcross, Labour's transport spokeswoman on the London assembly, said the anticipated loss of revenue almost matched the £60m the mayor, who chairs Transport for London, had raised by increasing bus fares in the capital.
  • (18) Ole Tommy Pedersen was standing at a bus stop 100 metres from the government high-rise when the explosion occurred.
  • (19) "When the bus doesn't come our children, especially those who work under a very strict routine, become very anxious, so we have lots of anxious children and equally anxious families."
  • (20) The driver refused to stop at her village despite her repeated pleas and instead drove her, the only passenger on the bus, to a remote farmhouse where he and the bus conductor were joined by five friends.

Minibus


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of light passenger vehicle, carrying four persons.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A minibus, a taxi and other vehicles that tried to travel up the street were pelted with stones.
  • (2) The MoD says the minibus failed to stop when the soldiers signalled for it to do so, and the guardsmen shot at it.
  • (3) At 3.30pm a flotilla of minibuses and taxis arrive to ferry our pupils to their homes across London and I attend a class review meeting with colleagues to discuss the progress of each pupil.
  • (4) They suddenly ran into an unexpected checkpoint run by the rebels, about 35 miles north of Damascus, and the wounded soldier told me the rebels just opened fire without warning and six people in the minibus were killed ...
  • (5) The game is based on driving a Matatu minibus on Kenya's chaotic roads It won the highly regarded Pivot East launchpad competition for East African mobile startups earlier this year.
  • (6) Some people, such as Hammond, already use taxis after the Stanley Centre's own minibus service stopped in March.
  • (7) When I read those reports, I am taken straight back to the awful drone attack sites I have visited in Yemen: 1 2 dead when a wedding convoy was hit in Yakla ; a mother, father and young daughter all blown up together when a minibus was hit in al-Saboul .
  • (8) It's clearly overkill when you are dealing with waste which is at the bottom end of the spectrum (of toxicity)," he says during a whirlwind minibus tour of the 98-hectare (245 acre) site, which he describes as "a ride around the ranch".
  • (9) But you need to take the side roads, it’s safer.” On small dirt tracks, several minibuses and cars are waiting, each of them going to different points on the border, but all accessing Isis-controlled territory.
  • (10) The impact of council cuts is distributed in millions of pieces – a broken lift here, a cancelled minibus there.
  • (11) Houses and vehicles are just vanity.” John Nile Kamara John Nile Kamara (fourth from right), 37, poda-poda minibus driver and former burial team driver John Nile Kamara, from Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, spent four months in Kambia working as a driver when Ebola broke out.
  • (12) The Suusamyr Freeride Lodge can arrange a minibus transfer from the airport (170km) which seats 15 people and is included in the price for the week.
  • (13) Yaman, 38 – a minibus driver hurrying home from work – was trying to avoid the demonstrations when he ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time.
  • (14) Separately, the Ukrainian border service said it had engaged in a fire-fight with a minibus carrying weapons that had tried to cross from Russia in the early hours of Tuesday morning, seizing a consignment of weapons and injuring one man.
  • (15) Finally, I reached the symbol of Rio itself, the Cristo , where I was joined by the crowds who'd taken the funicular or minibus.
  • (16) A bright pink minibus of female Labour MPs will tour constituencies to talk to female voters “around the kitchen table” in an effort to win their vote in marginal constituencies, the party has revealed.
  • (17) K is for Klosters A 15-minute spin down the mountain by minibus or limo, Klosters has become the overspill town for those who can't find rooms in Davos or who prefer to spend more time on the ski slopes than in the conference centre.
  • (18) He drove a minibus for the families of UDA prisoners and was not an active gunman in the terror group.
  • (19) The only vehicle in town for hire was a 40-year-old Toyota minibus of dubious roadworthiness, with a crew of three.
  • (20) Like the music arm, its origins were strictly DIY: "Mark was producing from his garden shed, and the film crew fitted in a minibus," recalls Meadows.

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