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bucket
[ buhk-it ]
noun
- a deep, cylindrical vessel, usually of metal, plastic, or wood, with a flat bottom and a semicircular bail, for collecting, carrying, or holding water, sand, fruit, etc.; pail.
- anything resembling or suggesting this.
- Machinery.
- any of the scoops attached to or forming the endless chain in certain types of conveyors or elevators.
- the scoop or clamshell of a steam shovel, power shovel, or dredge.
- a vane or blade of a waterwheel, paddle wheel, water turbine, or the like.
- (in a dam) a concave surface at the foot of a spillway for deflecting the downward flow of water.
- a bucketful:
a bucket of sand.
- Basketball.
- Informal. field goal.
- the part of the keyhole extending from the foul line to the end line.
- Bowling. a leave of the two, four, five, and eight pins, or the three, five, six, and nine pins.
verb (used with object)
- to lift, carry, or handle in a bucket (often followed by up or out ).
- Chiefly British. to ride (a horse) fast and without concern for tiring it.
- to handle (orders, transactions, etc.) in or as if in a bucket shop.
verb (used without object)
- Informal. to move or drive fast; hurry.
bucket
/ ˈbʌkɪt /
noun
- an open-topped roughly cylindrical container; pail
- Also calledbucketful the amount a bucket will hold
- any of various bucket-like parts of a machine, such as the scoop on a mechanical shovel
- a cupped blade or bucket-like compartment on the outer circumference of a water wheel, paddle wheel, etc
- computing a unit of storage on a direct-access device from which data can be retrieved
- a turbine rotor blade
- an ice cream container
- kick the bucket slang.kick the bucket to die
verb
- tr to carry in or put into a bucket
- introften foll bydown (of rain) to fall very heavily
it bucketed all day
- introften foll byalong to travel or drive fast
- tr to ride (a horse) hard without consideration
- slang.tr to criticize severely
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Word History and Origins
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Origin of bucket1
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Idioms and Phrases
- drop in the bucket, a small, usually inadequate amount in relation to what is needed or requested:
The grant for research was just a drop in the bucket.
- drop the bucket on, Australian Slang. to implicate, incriminate, or expose.
- kick the bucket, Slang. to die:
His children were greedily waiting for him to kick the bucket.
More idioms and phrases containing bucket
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Example Sentences
While McInnes’ chopper carries its water in a bucket, that’s not the only way to do it.
Kobe and Shaq butted heads, did their own things, got buckets and won three rings.
These are in the low-touch, high-growth bucket which is a good thing for us.
A centrifuge simulates gravity through centrifugal force — the effect that keeps water in the bottom of a bucket when you swing it over your head.
Another problem in this third bucket — it’s a big bucket — is when the person who designed the intervention and masterminded the initial trial can no longer be so involved once the program scales up to multiple locations.
An 18-year-old Swedish rapper/Internet meme has inspired legions of impressionable teens to get based in bucket hats.
Early one morning I was passing out hot water, when a man showed me a bucket of blood from his slashed wrists and asked for help.
Her solution: a bucket list of influential people and places to visit and photograph.
Somehow, their message has gone from lunch-bucket concerns to a date with Girls.
It was on a hike to the Grand Canyon at age 18 that Shattuck penned her first bucket list.
A fellow was dropt down in the bucket, and soon bawled out from the bottom, "I have found the punch-ladle, so wind me up."
A broken broom, covered with very ancient cobwebs, lay under one manger, and the remnants of a stable-bucket under another.
When the bucket came up full of water, the top was all yellow with dandelions.
If he has stolen a watering bucket or a harrow, he shall pay three shekels of silver.
With a bucket of water and a broomstick he beat out the fire, and went for a run to warm up.
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