- actively or fully engaged or occupied; "busy with her work"; "a busy man"; "too busy to eat lunch"
- keep busy with; "She busies herself with her butterfly collection"
- overcrowded or cluttered with detail; "a busy painting"; "a fussy design"
- interfering: intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner; "an interfering old woman"; "bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself"; "busy about other people's business"
- crowded with or characterized by much activity; "a very busy week"; "a busy life"; "a busy street"; "a busy seaport"
- (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line); "her line is busy"; "receptionists' telephones are always engaged"; "the lavatory is in use"; "kept getting a busy signal"
- (busyness) the state of being or appearing to be actively engaged in an activity; "they manifested all the busyness of a pack of beavers"; "there is a constant hum of military preparation"
- (busily) in a busy manner; "they were busily engaged in buying souvenirs"
- Bradford Keith Johnson, Jr. (born March 22, 1984) is an electronic musician from Maryland known by the stage name Busy.
- "Busy" is the first single released from Lyfe Jennings' fourth album I Still Believe. on February 23, 2010. . Busy reached number 39 on the Billboard R&B/hip hop charts.
- To make somebody busy, to keep busy with, to occupy, to make occupied; To rush somebody; Doing a great deal; having a lot of things to do in the space of time given; Engaged in another activity or by someone else; Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate
- (busyness) The characteristic of being busy
- Call condition in which transmission facilities are already in use. Synonym: off-hook condition.
- The accepted abbreviation for indicating a busy signal when dialing on a phone survey.
- a Service is processing requests currently.
- An ad containing too much information or too many graphic elements, and not properly balanced.
- A card that is needed for some purpose is said to be busy. For example, cards that a defender is trying to preserve while declarer executes a squeeze are "busy." Contrast with idle.
- When a signal is present on a frequency, the channel is "BUSY". The "BUSY" light will light when a signal is present or when the squelch is set too low to block out the background noise on a frequency.
- Term used to describe the line condition when the called party's telephone is already in use.
- A tone to signal line is in use.
- ad. doing something; very active