Bucket

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A cylindrical vessel used for holding or carrying liquids or solids; a pail.
  • noun. The amount that a bucket can hold.
  • noun. A unit of dry measure in the US Customary System equal to 2 pecks (17.6 liters).
  • noun. A receptacle on various machines, such as the scoop of a power shovel or the compartments on a water wheel, used to gather and convey material.
  • noun. A basket.
  • intransitive verb. To hold, carry, or put in a bucket.
  • intransitive verb. To ride (a horse) long and hard.
  • intransitive verb. To move or proceed rapidly and jerkily.
  • intransitive verb. To make haste; hustle.
  • idiom. (a drop in the bucket) An insufficient or inconsequential amount in comparison with what is required.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To dip up water with a bucket; use a bucket.
  • [In allusion to the rapid motion of a bucket in a well.] To move fast.
  • To pour water upon with a bucket.
  • noun. A letter full of abuse.
  • noun. A scoop or digger used for taking up loose material such as coal or ore, and often for digging under water.
  • noun. In turbines and centrifugal pumps, the space between two adjacent vanes on the revolving wheel.
  • noun. A vessel for drawing up water, as from a well; a pail or open vessel of wood, leather, metal, or other material, for carrying water or other liquid.
  • noun. A vane, float, or box on a water-wheel against which the water impinges, or into which it falls, in turning the wheel.
  • noun. The scoop of a dredging-machine, a grain-elevator, etc.
  • noun. The float of a paddle-wheel.
  • noun. The piston of a lifting-pump.
  • noun. As much as a bucket holds; half a bushel.
  • noun. A beam or pole on which anything may be hung or carried.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids.
  • noun. A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc.
  • noun. One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddle wheel.
  • noun. The valved piston of a lifting pump.
  • noun. one of vanes on the rotor of a turbine.
  • noun. a bucketfull.
  • noun. a bucket for carrying water to put out fires.
  • noun. to die.
  • transitive verb. To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.
  • transitive verb. To pour over from a bucket; to drench.
  • transitive verb. To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
  • transitive verb. To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
  • noun. The amount held in this container.
  • noun. Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket.
  • noun. An old car that is not in good working order.
  • noun. The basket.
  • noun. A field goal.
  • noun. A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
  • noun. A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
  • verb. To place inside a bucket.
  • verb. (informal) To rain heavily.
  • verb. (informal) To travel very quickly.
  • verb. To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top
  • verb. put into a bucket
  • Word Usage
    "Upload the bundle to a bucket on S3: ec2-upload-bundle \ - b $bucket \ - m/mnt/$prefix. manifest.xml \ - a $AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID \ - s"
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    carry  containerful  lay  place  pose  
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    bag  barrel  basin  basket  bottle  
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