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bucket

/ˈbʌkɪt/
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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.

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