being busy

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  • busy — [OE] Busy goes back to an Old English bisig, which also meant ‘occupied’. Apart from Dutch bezig, it has no apparent relatives in any Indo European language, and it is not known where it came from. The sense ‘inquisitive’, from which we get… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • busy — [OE] Busy goes back to an Old English bisig, which also meant ‘occupied’. Apart from Dutch bezig, it has no apparent relatives in any Indo European language, and it is not known where it came from. The sense ‘inquisitive’, from which we get… …   Word origins

  • busy-ness — noun The quality of being busy without achieving much …   Wiktionary

  • busy — bus‧y [ˈbɪzi] adjective 1. a telephone that is busy is being used; = engaged Bre 2. someone who is busy is working and is not available: • Mr Bullon is busy right now can you phone back after lunch? busy with • I ve been busy with customers all… …   Financial and business terms

  • Busy work — is a term for schoolwork, coursework, or homework that keeps students occupied without teaching anything constructive or interesting. Examples might include hastily put together projects , which are given to the student to keep them busy if the… …   Wikipedia

  • Busy — Bus y (b[i^]z z[y^]), a. [OE. busi, bisi, AS. bysig; akin to D. bezig, LG. besig; cf. Skr. bh[=u]sh to be active, busy.] 1. Engaged in some business; hard at work (either habitually or only for the time being); occupied with serious affairs; not… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • busy — busy, industrious, diligent, assiduous, sedulous mean actively engaged or occupied in work or in accomplishing a purpose or intention. Busy may imply nothing more than that the person or thing referred to is not idle, that is, that he is at work… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • Being and Nothingness — Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology (French: L Être et le néant : Essai d ontologie phénoménologique ), sometimes subtitled A Phenomenological Essay on Ontology, is a 1943 philosophical treatise by Jean Paul Sartre that… …   Wikipedia

  • Busy beaver — In computability theory, a busy beaver (from the colloquial expression for an industrious person) is a Turing machine that attains the maximum operational busyness (such as measured by the number of steps performed, or the number of nonblank… …   Wikipedia

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  • busy — I UK [ˈbɪzɪ] / US adjective Word forms busy : adjective busy comparative busier superlative busiest *** Metaphor: Being very busy at work is like being covered with things or surrounded by something such as water or the ground, so that you cannot …   English dictionary

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