bucket

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.3.2 Derived terms 1.3.3 Translations 1.3.4 See also 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Synonyms 1.4.2 Translations 1.5 References 1.6 External links

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[edit] Etymology

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".

[edit] Pronunciation

• enPR: bûk'ĭt, IPA: /ˈbʌkɪt/, SAMPA: /'bVkIt/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}
• Rhymes: -ʌkɪt

[edit] Noun

bucket (plural buckets)

1. 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.

2. The amount held in this container.

   The horse drank a whole bucket of water.

3. Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket.
4. (slang) An old car that is not in good working order.
5. (basketball, informal) The basket.

   The forward drove to the bucket.

6. (basketball, informal) A field goal.

   We can't keep giving up easy buckets.

7. (variation management) A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
8. (computing) A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.

[edit] Synonyms

• (container): pail
• (piece of machinery): scoop, vane, blade
• (old car): banger, jalopy, rustbucket

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[edit] See also

• barrel
• keg
• pail
• tub

[edit] Verb

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

1. (transitive) To place inside a bucket.
2. (intransitive) (informal) To rain heavily.
   • It’s really bucketing down out there.
3. (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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[edit] References

• bucket in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

[edit] External links

• Bucket on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons