Pronunciation Noun
bucket (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.
- (UK, archaic) A unit of measure equal to four gallons.
- Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
- (slang) An old vehicle 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, in the plural) A large amount of liquid.
- It rained buckets yesterday.
- I was so nervous that I sweated buckets.
- A bucket bag.
- 1989, Susan Ludwig, Janice Steinberg, Petite Style (page 46)
- Avoid bulky styles such as duffle sacks, buckets, doctors' satchels, and hobos.
- 1989, Susan Ludwig, Janice Steinberg, Petite Style (page 46)
- The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted.
- The pitcher in certain orchids.
- French: seau, (Quebec) chaudière
- German: Eimer
- Italian: secchio
- Portuguese: balde
- Russian: ведро́
- Spanish: balde (Central and South America), cubeta (Guatemala), cubo (Spain standard usage), pozal (Northern Spain), tobo (Venezuela)
- German: ein Eimer voll
- Portuguese: balde
- Russian: ведро́
- French: panier
bucket (buckets, present participle bucketing; past and past participle bucketed)
- (transitive) To place inside a bucket.
- (transitive) To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.
- to bucket water
- (intransitive, informal) To rain heavily.
- It’s really bucketing down out there.
- (intransitive, informal) To travel very quickly.
- The boat is bucketing along.
- (computing, transitive) To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.
- 2002, Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi, Masayuki Numao, Rüdiger Reischuk, Algorithmic Learning Theory: 13th International Conference (page 352)
- These candidates are then bucketed into a discretized version of the space of all possible lines.
- 2002, Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi, Masayuki Numao, Rüdiger Reischuk, Algorithmic Learning Theory: 13th International Conference (page 352)
- (transitive) To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
- (transitive, UK, US, rowing) To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.
- (rain heavily) chuck it down, piss down, rain cats and dogs
- (travel very quickly) hurtle, rocket, shoot, speed, whizz, book it
- French: pleuvoir à verse
- Spanish: llover a cántaros, jarrear
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