What does bucket mean?
Definitions for bucket
ˈbʌk ɪtbuck·et
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word bucket.
Princeton's WordNet
bucket, pail(noun)
a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top
bucket, bucketful(verb)
the quantity contained in a bucket
bucket(verb)
put into a bucket
bucket(verb)
carry in a bucket
Wiktionary
bucket(Noun)
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.
Etymology: From buket, partly from buket ‘tub, pail’ (compare Jersey , Guernsey ), diminutive of buc ‘abdomen; object with a cavity’, from (compare Occitan/Catalan buc, Italian buco, buca ‘hole, gap’), from ‘belly, stomach’, and partly from bucc (mod. dialectal buck), both from būkaz. More at bouk.
bucket(Noun)
The amount held in this container.
The horse drank a whole bucket of water.
Etymology: From buket, partly from buket ‘tub, pail’ (compare Jersey , Guernsey ), diminutive of buc ‘abdomen; object with a cavity’, from (compare Occitan/Catalan buc, Italian buco, buca ‘hole, gap’), from ‘belly, stomach’, and partly from bucc (mod. dialectal buck), both from būkaz. More at bouk.
bucket(Noun)
Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket.
Etymology: From buket, partly from buket ‘tub, pail’ (compare Jersey , Guernsey ), diminutive of buc ‘abdomen; object with a cavity’, from (compare Occitan/Catalan buc, Italian buco, buca ‘hole, gap’), from ‘belly, stomach’, and partly from bucc (mod. dialectal buck), both from būkaz. More at bouk.
bucket(Noun)
An old car that is not in good working order.
Etymology: From buket, partly from buket ‘tub, pail’ (compare Jersey , Guernsey ), diminutive of buc ‘abdomen; object with a cavity’, from (compare Occitan/Catalan buc, Italian buco, buca ‘hole, gap’), from ‘belly, stomach’, and partly from bucc (mod. dialectal buck), both from būkaz. More at bouk.
bucket(Noun)
The basket.
The forward drove to the bucket.
Etymology: From buket, partly from buket ‘tub, pail’ (compare Jersey , Guernsey ), diminutive of buc ‘abdomen; object with a cavity’, from (compare Occitan/Catalan buc, Italian buco, buca ‘hole, gap’), from ‘belly, stomach’, and partly from bucc (mod. dialectal buck), both from būkaz. More at bouk.
bucket(Noun)
A field goal.
We can't keep giving up easy buckets.
Etymology: From buket, partly from buket ‘tub, pail’ (compare Jersey , Guernsey ), diminutive of buc ‘abdomen; object with a cavity’, from (compare Occitan/Catalan buc, Italian buco, buca ‘hole, gap’), from ‘belly, stomach’, and partly from bucc (mod. dialectal buck), both from būkaz. More at bouk.
bucket(Noun)
A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
Etymology: From buket, partly from buket ‘tub, pail’ (compare Jersey , Guernsey ), diminutive of buc ‘abdomen; object with a cavity’, from (compare Occitan/Catalan buc, Italian buco, buca ‘hole, gap’), from ‘belly, stomach’, and partly from bucc (mod. dialectal buck), both from būkaz. More at bouk.
bucket(Noun)
A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
Etymology: From buket, partly from buket ‘tub, pail’ (compare Jersey , Guernsey ), diminutive of buc ‘abdomen; object with a cavity’, from (compare Occitan/Catalan buc, Italian buco, buca ‘hole, gap’), from ‘belly, stomach’, and partly from bucc (mod. dialectal buck), both from būkaz. More at bouk.
bucket(Verb)
To place inside a bucket.
Etymology: From buket, partly from buket ‘tub, pail’ (compare Jersey , Guernsey ), diminutive of buc ‘abdomen; object with a cavity’, from (compare Occitan/Catalan buc, Italian buco, buca ‘hole, gap’), from ‘belly, stomach’, and partly from bucc (mod. dialectal buck), both from būkaz. More at bouk.
bucket(Verb)
To rain heavily.
Etymology: From buket, partly from buket ‘tub, pail’ (compare Jersey , Guernsey ), diminutive of buc ‘abdomen; object with a cavity’, from (compare Occitan/Catalan buc, Italian buco, buca ‘hole, gap’), from ‘belly, stomach’, and partly from bucc (mod. dialectal buck), both from būkaz. More at bouk.
bucket(Verb)
To travel very quickly.
Etymology: From buket, partly from buket ‘tub, pail’ (compare Jersey , Guernsey ), diminutive of buc ‘abdomen; object with a cavity’, from (compare Occitan/Catalan buc, Italian buco, buca ‘hole, gap’), from ‘belly, stomach’, and partly from bucc (mod. dialectal buck), both from būkaz. More at bouk.
bucket(Verb)
To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.
Etymology: From buket, partly from buket ‘tub, pail’ (compare Jersey , Guernsey ), diminutive of buc ‘abdomen; object with a cavity’, from (compare Occitan/Catalan buc, Italian buco, buca ‘hole, gap’), from ‘belly, stomach’, and partly from bucc (mod. dialectal buck), both from būkaz. More at bouk.
Webster Dictionary
Bucket(noun)
a vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids
Bucket(noun)
a vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc
Bucket(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
Bucket(noun)
the valved piston of a lifting pump
Freebase
Bucket
A Bucket 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 10 dm³.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Bucket
buk′et, n. a vessel for drawing or holding water, &c.; one of the compartments on the circumference of a water-wheel, or one of the scoops of a dredging-machine: the leather socket for holding the whip in driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted: a name given to the pitcher in some orchids.—ns. Buck′etful, as much as a bucket will hold; Buck′eting (U.S.), jerky rowing; Buck′et-shop, slang term for the offices of 'outside brokers'—mere agents for bets on the rise or fall of prices of stock, &c.; Buck′et-wheel, a contrivance for raising water by means of buckets attached to the circumference of a wheel.—Give the bucket, to dismiss; Kick the bucket (slang), to die. [Prob. conn. with A.S. búc, a pitcher; or O. Fr. buket, a pail. Not Gael. bucaid, a bucket.]
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
bucket
A small globe of hoops, covered with canvas, used as a recall for the boats of whalers.
Rap Dictionary
bucket(noun)
Old car in bad shape. "So I moved on an old car, it was a bucket, but fu** it, it had to do" -- Ice-T. (Midnight).
bucket(noun)
Gravity bong.
bucket(noun)
3 Was a full moon so I went I went fishin, jumped out da car I'm like where's my bucket, I left home and fa got 2 tucket ita
Editors Contribution
bucket
A type of product created and designed in various colors, materials, mechanisms, shapes, sizes and styles.
Buckets are created for various purposes e.g. to put water or other liquids in, to attach to a piece of machinery to move earth etc.
Submitted by MaryC on February 24, 2016
British National Corpus
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'bucket' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3619
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'bucket' in Nouns Frequency: #2423
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of bucket in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of bucket in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of bucket in a Sentence
After it passes we're still going to have the bucket full of problems that haven't been resolved, so I can tell everybody I went charging up the hill and we shut it down but it's gonna be on their doorstep, the implications of this, most specifically, the sickest people but then the taxpayers.
The day before I had actually built myself a small kiln down the back — a coffin-sized kiln — just big enough for me to crawl inside, i could have (died) if I hadn't thought about plan B. In that little kiln enclosure I made, I had a fire extinguisher, a bucket of water, a drinking water bottle and a fire blanket.
There was a dog that was kept in a kennel that was filled with feces and urine, the food was thrown down on the feces for the dog to eat. The water bucket had old straw and feces on it and the water inside was full of algae.
Donald Trump showed up one night outside our show banging on the backstage door. It was 2007, Donald Trump had a half-finished bucket of chicken under Donald Trump arm, donald Trump was screaming that Donald Trump needed to use the bathroom, but unfortunately, there was someone in the bathroom. I believe it wasZach Braffwho was in the bathroom. So Donald Trump took a look around, Donald Trump stuffed the remainder chicken in Donald Trump jacket, Donald Trump dropped Donald Trump pants … Donald Trump did Donald Trump business in the bucket.
This was on our bucket list.
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Translations for bucket
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- emmerAfrikaans
- pozalAragonese
- دَلْوٌ, جردل, سَطْلArabic
- বাল্টিAssamese
- вядроBelarusian
- кофа, кош, ведро, черпакBulgarian
- বালতিBengali
- ཟོ་བ།Tibetan Standard
- sailhBreton
- galleda, cubellada, catúfol, cubellCatalan, Valencian
- kbelík, vědro, kýblCzech
- bwcedWelsh
- spandDanish
- Eimer, SchaufelGerman
- σακαράκα, κουβάςGreek
- siteloEsperanto
- cubo, pozal, llover a cántaros, tobo, balde, cubetaSpanish
- pang, ämberEstonian
- سطلPersian
- kauha, siipi, ämpäri, sanko, sangollinen, kottero, ämpärillinenFinnish
- spannFaroese
- chaudière, panier, tacot, seau, guimbarde, bazou, minouneFrench
- amerWestern Frisian
- buicéadIrish
- ડોલGujarati
- gugaHausa
- דליHebrew
- बाल्टीHindi
- vödör, vederHungarian
- դույլArmenian
- emberIndonesian
- sitelleInterlingue
- ịwụIgbo
- siteloIdo
- fataIcelandic
- secchioItalian
- 手桶, バケツ, 桶Japanese
- ვედროGeorgian
- ថាំងKhmer
- ಬಕೆಟ್Kannada
- 양동이, 퍼붓다Korean
- situla, hamaLatin
- ຄຸLao
- kibirasLithuanian
- spainisLatvian
- pēre, pāketeMāori
- кофаMacedonian
- തൊട്ടിMalayalam
- хувинMongolian
- baldiMalay
- barmil, karrakkaMaltese
- ပုံးBurmese
- bøtte, kurvNorwegian
- plenzen, rammelkar, vlammen, emmerDutch
- bøtte, bytte, kurvNorwegian Nynorsk
- spann, bøtteNorwegian
- ବାଲଟିOriya
- kubeł, wiadroPolish
- ډولچهPashto, Pushto
- baldePortuguese
- in-doboKirundi
- găleată, căldareRomanian
- ковш, ведро, ведёркоRussian
- imbegetiKinyarwanda
- द्रोणिSanskrit
- buèleSardinian
- بالٽيSindhi
- gievdni, gieđbmiNorthern Sami
- ведро, vedro, kofa, čabar, кофа, вједро, vjedro, ка̀бао, kàbao, чабарSerbo-Croatian
- vedroSlovak
- vedroSlovene
- kovëAlbanian
- ösa, hink, skopa, korg, spann, ösregna, ämbarSwedish
- ndooSwahili
- வாளிTamil
- బక్కెట్టు, బొక్కెన, బక్కెటుTelugu
- ถัง, ปี๊บThai
- kovaTurkish
- відроUkrainian
- بالٹیUrdu
- xôVietnamese
- böketVolapük
- saeyea, modoeWalloon
- iemeleXhosa
- עמערYiddish
- garawaYoruba
- ibhakedeZulu
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