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   bucket

   /ˈbʌkɪt/

   noun

   • 1. a roughly cylindrical open container with a handle, made of metal or plastic and used to hold and carry liquids: "a bucket and spade"
   • ▪ the contents of a bucket or the amount it can contain: "she emptied a bucket of water over them"
   • ▪ large quantities of something, especially liquid: informal "I wept buckets"
   • ▪ a compartment on the outer edge of a waterwheel: "the Laxey wheel had 168 buckets, each holding 24 gallons"
   • ▪ the scoop of a dredger or grain elevator: "as the chain turns the buckets bite into the canal bed and scoop out the mud"
   • ▪ a scoop attached to the front of a loader, digger, or tractor.
   • 2. a unit of data that can be transferred from a backing store in a single operation.

   verb

   • 1. rain heavily: informal British "it was still bucketing down" Similar rain heavilyrain cats and dogsrain hardpourpeltlashteemstreamtipbeatsheet
   • 2. (of a vehicle) move quickly and jerkily: informal "the car came bucketing out of a side road" Similar speedhurryracerunsprintdashboltdartrushhastenhurtlecareerstreakshootwhizzzoomgo like lightninggo hell for leatherspank alongbowl alongrattle alongwhirlwhooshbuzzswoopflashblastchargestampedegallopsweephareflywingscurryscudscutterscrambleinformal:beltpelttearhotfoot itzapzipwhipscootscorchburn rubbergo like a bat out of hellbombshiftput one's foot downgo like the clappersleg itwheechclipboogiehightailbarrellay rubberget the lead outvulgar slang:drag/tear/haul assliterary:fleetarchaic:posthierare:drive

   Word Origin Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French buquet ‘tub, pail’, perhaps from Old Englishbūc ‘belly, pitcher’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. bucketful noun

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   What is a bucket used for?

   • [countable] a large container that is part of a crane or digger and is used for lifting things by the bucket/bucketful They used to drink tea by the bucketful (= in large quantities). To succeed in show business, you need buckets of confidence. We wept buckets. He was sweating buckets by the end of the race.

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   What does bucket mean?

   • Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free! Can you solve 4 words at once? Get Word of the Day daily email! The meaning of BUCKET is a typically cylindrical vessel for catching, holding, or carrying liquids or solids.

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   What is a bucket of paint?

   • n. 1. a. A cylindrical vessel used for holding or carrying liquids or solids; a pail. b. The amount that a bucket can hold: One bucket of paint will be enough for the ceiling. 2. A unit of dry measure in the US Customary System equal to 2 pecks (17.6 liters). 3.

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   What is a bucket of water?

   • A bucket is a round metal or plastic container with a handle attached to its sides. Buckets are often used for holding and carrying water. We drew water in a bucket from the well outside the door. The girls happily played in the sand and sea with buckets and spades. A bucketof water is the amount of water contained in a bucket.

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   What does a bucket look like?

   • A bucket is typically a vertical cylinder or truncated cone with an open top and a flat bottom and a semicircular carrying handle called the bail. It is watertight and has a common volume of 10 dm³.

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   How do you describe a bucket in a sentence?

   • by the bucket/bucketful They used to drink tea by the bucketful (= in large quantities). To succeed in show business, you need buckets of confidence. We wept buckets. He was sweating buckets by the end of the race. The rain was coming down in buckets (= it was raining very heavily).

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    An open, round container with a handle is a bucket. You might take a bucket and shovel to the beach for making sand castles. ... Spanish-English dictionary ...