Bucket meaning
A basket.
noun
The definition of a bucket is a round and deep container used for carrying things.
An example of a bucket is what you'd use to carry water from a faucet to a kiddie pool.
noun
A unit of dry measure in the US Customary System equal to 2 pecks (17.6 liters).
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A receptacle on various machines, such as the scoop of a power shovel or the compartments on a water wheel, used to gather and convey material.
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A cylindrical vessel used for holding or carrying liquids or solids; a pail.
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The amount that a bucket can hold.
One bucket of paint will be enough for the ceiling.
noun
To hold, carry, or put in a bucket.
Bucket up water from a well.
verb
To ride (a horse) long and hard.
verb
To move or proceed rapidly and jerkily.
Bucketing over the unpaved lane.
verb
To make haste; hustle.
verb
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A deep, round container with a flat bottom and a curved handle, used to hold or carry water, coal, etc.; pail.
noun
The amount held by a bucket.
noun
A thing like a bucket, as a scoop on a power shovel, any of the cups on a water wheel, or any of the curved vanes in the rotor of a turbine.
noun
The rump; buttocks.
noun
To carry, draw, or lift (water, etc.) in a bucket or buckets.
verb
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To speculate (with) dishonestly as in a bucket shop.
verb
To ride (a horse) at a fast pace.
verb
To move or drive rapidly or recklessly.
verb
(1) A reserved amount of memory that holds a single item or multiple items of data. Bucket is somewhat synonymous to "buffer," although buffers are usually memory locations for incoming data records, while buckets tend to be smaller holding areas for calculations. See hash table, buffer and variable.
(variation management) A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
noun
(informal, chiefly plural) A large amount of liquid.
It rained buckets yesterday.
I was so nervous that I sweated buckets.
noun
To place inside a bucket.
verb
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Origin of bucket
From Middle English boket, buket, partly from Anglo-Norman buket, buquet ‘tub, pail’ (compare Jersey boutchet, Guernsey bouquet), diminutive of buc ‘abdomen; object with a cavity’, from Vulgar Latin *būco (compare Occitan/Catalan buc, Italian buco, buca (“hole, gap”)), from Old Frankish *būk (“belly, stomach”), and partly from Old English bucc (“bucket, pitcher”) (mod. dialectal buck), both from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, stomach”), equivalent to bouk + -et. More at bouk.