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bucket
[ buhk-it ]
noun
- a deep, cylindrical vessel, usually of metal, plastic, or wood, with a flat bottom and a semicircular bail, for collecting, carrying, or holding water, sand, fruit, etc.; pail.
- anything resembling or suggesting this.
- Machinery.
- any of the scoops attached to or forming the endless chain in certain types of conveyors or elevators.
- the scoop or clamshell of a steam shovel, power shovel, or dredge.
- a vane or blade of a waterwheel, paddle wheel, water turbine, or the like.
- (in a dam) a concave surface at the foot of a spillway for deflecting the downward flow of water.
- a bucketful:
a bucket of sand.
- Basketball.
- Informal. field goal.
- the part of the keyhole extending from the foul line to the end line.
- Bowling. a leave of the two, four, five, and eight pins, or the three, five, six, and nine pins.
verb (used with object)
- to lift, carry, or handle in a bucket (often followed by up or out ).
- Chiefly British. to ride (a horse) fast and without concern for tiring it.
- to handle (orders, transactions, etc.) in or as if in a bucket shop.
verb (used without object)
- Informal. to move or drive fast; hurry.
bucket
/ ˈʌɪ /
noun
- an open-topped roughly cylindrical container; pail
- Also calledbucketful the amount a bucket will hold
- any of various bucket-like parts of a machine, such as the scoop on a mechanical shovel
- a cupped blade or bucket-like compartment on the outer circumference of a water wheel, paddle wheel, etc
- computing a unit of storage on a direct-access device from which data can be retrieved
- a turbine rotor blade
- an ice cream container
- kick the bucket slang.to die
verb
- tr to carry in or put into a bucket
- introften foll bydown (of rain) to fall very heavily
it bucketed all day
- introften foll byalong to travel or drive fast
- tr to ride (a horse) hard without consideration
- slang.tr to criticize severely
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of bucket1
Idioms and Phrases
- drop in the bucket, a small, usually inadequate amount in relation to what is needed or requested:
The grant for research was just a drop in the bucket.
- drop the bucket on, Australian Slang. to implicate, incriminate, or expose.
- kick the bucket, Slang. to die:
His children were greedily waiting for him to kick the bucket.
More idioms and phrases containing bucket
see drop in the bucket ; kick the bucket ; rain cats and dogs (buckets) ; weep buckets .Example Sentences
“Obviously for me, shots or buckets aren’t coming as they have been all year,” Powell said after practice Wednesday.
The second spigot, Measure A, is split into two buckets.
And what I mean by that are basically three buckets.
“This is a tiny drop in the bucket of what is actually necessary to right-size our Fire Department in Los Angeles,” she said.
One thing he'd still like to tick off his bucket list is visiting the remote island of Tuvalu in the South Pacific Ocean, which sounds like a pitch for a new TV show in itself.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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