BUCKET

Bucket

A bucket or pail is typically a watertight, vertical cylinder or truncated cone, with an open top and a flat bottom, usually attached to a semicircular carrying handle called the bail. A common volume is .

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bucket

Noun

  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. An old car that is not in good working order.
  5. The basket.
    The forward drove to the bucket.
  6. A field goal.
    ''We can't keep giving up easy buckets.
  7. A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
  8. A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
  9. A large amount of liquid.
    It rained buckets yesterday.
    I was so nervous that I sweated buckets.

Verb

  1. To place inside a bucket.
  2. To rain heavily.
  3. To travel very quickly.
  4. To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.


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