bucket
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From Middle English boket, buket, from Anglo-Norman buket, buquet, of Germanic origin, from Old English bucc (“belly, stomach, pitcher, bulging vessel”), from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, stomach”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhou- (“to swell, grow”). Akin to Old English būc (“stomach, belly”). More at bouk.
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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.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1
- The crab was cool and very light. But the water was thick with sand, and so, scrambling down, Jacob was about to jump, holding his bucket in front of him, when he saw, stretched entirely rigid, side by side, their faces very red, an enormous man and woman.
- 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.
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Terms derived from bucket (noun)
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container
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amount held in this container
part of piece of machinery
old car
basketball: basket
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bucket (third-person singular simple present buckets, present participle bucketing, simple past and past participle bucketed)
- (transitive) To place inside a bucket.
- (intransitive) (informal) To rain heavily.
- It’s really bucketing down out there.
- (intransitive) (informal) To travel very quickly.
- The boat is bucketing along.
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- (rain heavily): chuck it down, piss down, rain cats and dogs
- (travel very quickly): hurtle, rocket, shoot, speed, whizz
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rain heavily
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travel very quickly
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[edit] References
- bucket in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
[edit] External links
Bucket on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons
