bucket

buck·et

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A bright red bucket.

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.

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bucket

a deep, round container with a flat bottom and a curved handle, used to hold or carry water, coal, etc.; pail
the amount held by a bucket
also buck′et·ful·
noun
pl. -·fuls·
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
Slang the rump; buttocks

Origin of bucket

Middle English boket from Anglo-French buket, diminutive of Old English buc, pitcher, bulging vessel, origin, originally , belly from Indo-European an unverified form bhou-, variant, variety of base an unverified form bheu-: see big

to carry, draw, or lift (water, etc.) in a bucket or buckets
to speculate (with) dishonestly as in a bucket shop
Brit.
1. to ride (a horse) at a fast pace
2. to move or drive rapidly or recklessly

bucket Idioms

kick the bucket

Origin of bucket

< ? obs. bucket, beam on which a slaughtered pig was hung

Slang to die

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bucket

noun

a. A cylindrical vessel used for holding or carrying liquids or solids; a pail.
b. The amount that a bucket can hold: One bucket of paint will be enough for the ceiling.
A unit of dry measure in the US Customary System equal to 2 pecks (17.6 liters).
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.
Basketball A basket.

verb

buck·et·ed, buck·et·ing, buck·ets

verb

transitive

To hold, carry, or put in a bucket: bucket up water from a well.
To ride (a horse) long and hard.

verb

intransitive

To move or proceed rapidly and jerkily: bucketing over the unpaved lane.
To make haste; hustle.

Origin of bucket

Middle English from Anglo-Norman buket from Frankish būk belly, hollow thing from Proto-Germanic būkaz ( also the source of German Bauch belly ) perhaps ultimately of imitative origin (suggesting the notion of inflation or distension)

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Noun

(plural buckets)

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.
Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket.
(slang) An old car that is not in good working order.
(basketball, informal) The basket.
The forward drove to the bucket.
(basketball, informal) 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.
(computing) A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
(informal, chiefly plural) A large amount of liquid.
It rained buckets yesterday.
I was so nervous that I sweated buckets.

Verb

(third-person singular simple present buckets, present participle bucketing, simple past and past participle bucketed)

To place inside a bucket.
(intransitive, informal) To rain heavily.
(intransitive, informal) To travel very quickly.
(computing) To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.

Origin

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.

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bucket - Computer Definition

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.

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