bus stop

English

A bus stop in Poland.

Noun

bus stop (plural bus stops)

1. A place where public transport buses stop to allow passengers to board or leave.
   • 2011, Rebecca Black featuring Patrice Wilson, Friday

     Gotta get down to the bus stop

     Gotta catch my bus, I see my friends

2. (education) The tableau used in short division, taught as if it were a bus stop with the digits treated as people queueing.
3. (mathematics, informal) "⟌": The two-lined right-angled symbol used to separate quotient, divisor and dividend in long division and short division
4. (preceded by definite article) A disco dance popular in the 1970s and 1980s.
5. (motor racing) Ellipsis of bus stop chicane.

Alternative forms

• (motorsports): busstop

Synonyms

• (⟌): ⟌, long division symbol, short division symbol, long division box, short division box

Hypernyms

• (motorsports): chicane, curve, turn

Derived terms

• bus-stop flight

Translations

a stop for public transport buses

• Arabic: مَوْقِف لِلْحَافِلَات‎ m (mawqif li-l-ḥāfilāt), مَوْقِف بَاص‎ m (mawqif bāṣ), مَحَطَّة بَاص‎ f (maḥaṭṭat bāṣ)
• Armenian: ավտոբուսի կանգառ (avtobusi kangaṙ)
• Azerbaijani: dayanacaq (az), avtobus dayanacağı
• Bashkir: туҡталыш (tuqtalïš)
• Belarusian: прыпы́нак m (prypýnak), аўто́бусны прыпы́нак m (aŭtóbusny prypýnak)
• Bulgarian: спи́рка (bg) f (spírka)
• Burmese: ကားမှတ်တိုင် (my) (ka:hmattuing)
• Catalan: parada d'autobús f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 巴士站 (baa¹ si^6-2 zaam⁶)

  Mandarin: 汽車站 (zh), 汽车站 (zh) (qìchēzhàn), 車站 (zh), 车站 (zh) (chēzhàn), 公共汽車站 (zh), 公共汽车站 (zh) (gōnggòngqìchēzhàn), 巴士站 (zh) (bāshìzhàn)

• Czech: zastávka (cs) f, autobusová zastávka f
• Danish: busstoppested n, stoppested (da) n
• Dutch: bushalte (nl) f
• Esperanto: bushaltejo
• Estonian: bussipeatus (et)
• Faroese: steðgipláss n, busssteðgipláss n, støðgingarpláss n, busssteðgistaður m, busssteðg n
• Finnish: bussipysäkki (fi), linja-autopysäkki (fi)
• French: arrêt de bus (fr) m
• Georgian: ავტობუსის გაჩერება (avṭobusis gačereba)
• German: Bushaltestelle (de) f
• Greek: στάση λεωφορείου f (stási leoforeíou)
• Hebrew: תַּחֲנַת אוֹטוֹבּוּס‎ (he) f (takhanát ótobus)
• Hungarian: buszmegálló (hu)
• Icelandic: stoppistöð (is) f, strætóstoppistöð f
• Indonesian: halte bus
• Italian: fermata d'autobus f, fermata (it) f
• Japanese: バス停 (ja) (バスてい, basutei), 停留所 (ja) (ていりゅうじょ, teiryūjo)
• Kazakh: аялдама (kk) (aäldama)
• Khmer: ជំហប់ (km) (cumhup)
• Korean: 정류장 (ko) (jeongnyujang), 정류소 (jeongnyuso)
• Kyrgyz: аялдама (ayaldama)
• Lao: ບ່ອນຈອດລົດ (bǭn chǭt lot), ບ່ອນຈອດລົດເມ (lo) (bǭn chǭt lot mē)

• Latvian: autobusa pietura f
• Lithuanian: autobusų stotelė f
• Lule Sami: bussaganudahka
• Macedonian: постојка (postojka), станица f (stanica)
• Malay: perhentian bas
• Maori: tūnga pahi
• Norman: arrêt d'beusse m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bussholdeplass m, busstopp (no) m or n, buss-stopp (no) m or n

  Nynorsk: busstopp (no) m or n, buss-stopp (no) m or n

• Persian: ایستگاه اتوبوس‎ (fa) (istgâh-e otobus)
• Polish: przystanek (pl) m, przystanek autobusowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: ponto de ônibus m (Brazil), parada de ônibus m (Brazil), paragem (de autocarro) f (Portugal)
• Russian: остано́вка (ru) f (ostanóvka), авто́бусная остано́вка (ru) f (avtóbusnaja ostanóvka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ста̏јалӣште n, ста̀ница f

  Roman: stȁjalīšte (sh) n, stànica (sh) f

• Slovak: zastávka f, autobusová zastávka f
• Slovene: avtobusna postaja f, postaja (sl) f
• Spanish: parada de autobús f
• Swedish: busshållplats (sv) c
• Tajik: истгоҳ (istgoh), истгоҳи автобус (istgohi avtobus)
• Tatar: тукталыш (tt) (tuqtalış)
• Thai: ป้ายรถเมล์ (bpâai-rót-mee)
• Tibetan: སྤྱི་འཁོར་སྒུག་ཁང་ (spyi 'khor sgug khang)
• Turkish: durak (tr)
• Turkmen: duralga
• Ukrainian: зупи́нка f (zupýnka), авто́бусна зупи́нка f (avtóbusna zupýnka)
• Uyghur: بېكەت‎ (bëket)
• Uzbek: ostanovka (uz), avtobus ostanovkasi, bekat (uz)
• Vietnamese: trạm xe buýt
• Welsh: safle bws m, safle (cy) m

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