bucket
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bucket¹
- /ˈbʌkɪt/ US, UK
- /ˈbʌk.ət/
- /ˈbʊkɪt/ Northern England
Rhymes with -ʌkɪt
Where it comes from
From Middle English buket, boket, partly from Old English bucc ("bucket, pitcher"; mod. dialectal buck), equivalent to bouk + -et; and partly from Anglo-Norman buket, buquet (“tub; pail”) (compare Norman boutchet, Norman bouquet), diminutive of Old French buc (“abdomen; object with a cavity”), from Vulgar Latin *būcus (compare Occitan and Catalan buc, Italian buco, buca (“hole, gap”)), from Frankish *būk (“belly, stomach”). Both the Old English and Frankish terms derive from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, stomach”). More at bouk.
noun buckets
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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.
Similar: pail
- The amount held in this container. The horse drank a whole bucket of water.
- A large amount of liquid. It rained buckets yesterday.
- A great deal of anything. My new suit cost me buckets.
- A unit of measure equal to four gallons.
- The part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
- Someone who habitually uses crack cocaine.
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An old vehicle that is not in good working order.
Similar: banger, beater, hooptie, jalopy, wreck, crock, shitbox, rustbucket, bucket of bolts, bucket of rust, clunker, crate
- The basket. The forward drove to the bucket.
- A field goal. We can't keep giving up easy buckets.
- A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
- A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
- A turbine blade driven by hot gas or steam.
- A bucket bag. Avoid bulky styles such as duffle sacks, buckets, doctors' satchels, and hobos.
- The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted.
- The pitcher in certain orchids.
- A helmet.
verb buckets · bucketing · bucketed
- To place inside a bucket.
- To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets. to bucket water
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To rain heavily.
It’s really bucketing down out there.
Similar: bucket down, chuck it down, piss down, rain cats and dogs
- To travel very quickly. The boat is bucketing along.
- To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
- To criticize vehemently; to denigrate.
- To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items. These candidates are then bucketed into a discretized version of the space of all possible lines.
- To engage in an illegal practice where a broker confirms a client's trade order without actually executing it on the free market. In United States v. Ficken (N.D. Ohio) the defendant was sentenced to 18 years imprisonment after pleading guilty to charges of converting clients' funds by "bucketing" their orders.
- To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.
Bucket²
proper noun the Bucket
- Nickname for Pawtucket: a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. ‘You really think the Bucket's a shithole, Mousy?’ ’[They should] put a toilet seat on top of this place.’
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: pail, bucketful, tub, basin, boiler, spade, basket, trough, shovel, toilet, block, dustpan, kettle, mop, dustbin, barrel
Translations
Every language
noun container
| Español | balde, cubeta, cubo, pozal, tobo |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 양동이 yangdong'i |
| 日本語 | バケツ baketsu, 桶 oke, 手桶 teoke |
| 中文 | 水桶 shuǐtǒng, 吊桶 diàotǒng |
| हिन्दी | बाल्टी bālṭī |
| Kiswahili | ndoo |
| Português | balde |
| Français | seau, chaudière |
| Deutsch | Eimer, Kübel |
| Italiano | secchio |
| Ελληνικά | κουβάς kouvás |
| Română | găleată, căldare |
| Русский | ведро́ vedró, ведёрко vedjórko |
| Tiếng Việt | xô |
| العربية | دَلْو dalw, سَطْل saṭl, جَرْدَل jardal |
| עברית | דְּלִי dli |
noun amount held in this container
| Kiswahili | ndoo |
|---|---|
| Português | balde |
| Deutsch | ein Eimer voll, ein Kübel voll |
| Română | găleată |
| Русский | ведро́ vedró |
noun old car
| Kiswahili | ndoo |
|---|---|
| Français | tacot, bazou, minoune, guimbarde |
| Deutsch | Karre, Klapperkiste, Kraxen, Mühle, Nuckelpinne, Rostlaube |
| Ελληνικά | σακαράκα sakaráka |
| Русский | ведро́ vedró, развалю́ха razvaljúxa, ру́хлядь rúxljadʹ |
verb rain heavily
| Español | llover a cántaros, jarrear |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 퍼붓다 peobutda |
| Français | pleuvoir à verse |
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