What's the difference between bus and overhead?

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.

Overhead


Definition:

  • (adv.) Aloft; above; in or attached to the ceiling or roof; in the story or upon the floor above; in the zenith.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As May delivered her statement in the chamber, police helicopters hovered overhead and a police cordon remained in place around Westminster, but MPs from across the political spectrum were determined to show that they were continuing with business as usual.
  • (2) Overhead wire problems were causing delays on the east coast mainline into London King's Cross.
  • (3) Jesús Navas played a one-two with Touré down the right and from his awkward cross the England squad goalkeeper fumbled the ball inside his six-yard area from where Fernando scored with an overhead kick as dextrous as it was surprising.
  • (4) As fighter jets screamed overhead and tanks churned up the sand, it looked and sounded like the violent protests sweeping the Middle East had spread to the wealthy emirate of Abu Dhabi.
  • (5) A population based case control study of adult haematological malignancy and distance from, and magnetic fields associated with, overhead (OH) power lines has been carried out in the North West and Yorkshire regions of England.
  • (6) His body was found on the pavement of Portman Avenue, in East Sheen, an affluent west London suburb, shortly before 7.45am on 9 September last year, just after flight BA76 from Luanda, the Angolan capital, passed overhead.
  • (7) It cites a battery of reasons, including removing the market distortion and overheads involved in trying to set a price that covers an agency's costs and encouraging the uptake of information and the beneficial innovation that will result.
  • (8) I used to hear Canada geese sail overhead to a Stoke Newington reservoir behind where I lodged in my London days.
  • (9) The total lender's unit cost per request received, including direct labor, materials, fringe benefits, and overhead, was $1.526 for originals mailed postpaid by lender, and $1.534 for photocopies mailed.
  • (10) A Guardian analysis has found: A Luxembourg unit of Shire, the FTSE-100 drug firm behind attention deficit pill Adderall, received more than $1.9bn in interest income from other group companies in the last five years, paying corporation tax of less than $2m over four of the years despite minimal overheads.
  • (11) Nadal takes the advantage with two overhead smashes - one returned, the other not.
  • (12) Military helicopters hovered overhead as supporters and opponents of the Muslim Brotherhood clashed in the streets below.
  • (13) Canalization and drainage of rivers, streams and marches since the beginning of malaria outbreak, widespread use of pesticides during the antimalaria spraying campaigns, only overhead irrigation, permanent maintenance of the lined canal system, induced many ecological constraints to possible snail habitats.
  • (14) Yaya Toure picked him out with a forensic, scooped pass that he played with the outside of his right boot and Bony watched it drop before trying to score with an overhead kick.
  • (15) This analytical system has the advantage of providing data on distribution of element concentration in a given specimen in overhead view without involving destruction of the tissue architecture.
  • (16) Charities which play this game – especially those which go to such pains to show how little they spend on “overheads” – are complicit in the perpetuation of an idea which is harming the sector and ultimately harms society.
  • (17) For repositioning we used a modified overhead-extension (Extensionsreposition).
  • (18) At 6pm it sounds like a war zone outside the office: you can hear nothing but sirens and the almost continuous drone of helicopters overhead.
  • (19) I won’t forget Dean Ashton’s overhead kick , Adrián’s goal or singing Paolo Di Canio’s name for the last time at this special stadium.
  • (20) London Liverpool Street and lines to East Anglia will be affected for even longer, from December 24 until January 2, with rail diversions and the replacement buses in place to allow for work on signalling, track and overhead power lines.