bucket
/ˈbʌkɪt/
Dictionary
noun
- A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
"I need a bucket to carry the water from the well."
- The amount held in this container.
"The horse drank a whole bucket of water."
- A unit of measure equal to four gallons.
- Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
- An old vehicle that is not in good working order.
- The basket.
"The forward drove to the bucket."
- A field goal.
"We can't keep giving up easy buckets."
- (variation management) A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
- A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
- (chiefly in the plural) A large amount of liquid.
"I was so nervous that I sweated buckets."
- A bucket bag.
- The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted.
- The pitcher in certain orchids.
verb
- To place inside a bucket.
- To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.
"to bucket water"
- To rain heavily.
"It’s really bucketing down out there."
- To travel very quickly.
"The boat is bucketing along."
- To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.
- To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
- To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.
Play Word Games
Test your vocabulary and logic skills with our daily word puzzles. Will you find 'bucket' in today's game?