Definitions for bucket
ˈbʌk ɪtbuck·et

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. bucket, pailnoun

   a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top

2. bucket, bucketfulverb

   the quantity contained in a bucket

3. bucketverb

   put into a bucket

4. bucketverb

   carry in a bucket

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. bucketnoun

   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. bucketnoun

   The amount held in this container.

   The horse drank a whole bucket of water.

3. bucketnoun

   Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket.

4. bucketnoun

   An old car that is not in good working order.

5. bucketnoun

   The basket.

   The forward drove to the bucket.

6. bucketnoun

   A field goal.

   We can't keep giving up easy buckets.

7. bucketnoun

   A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.

8. bucketnoun

   A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.

9. bucketverb

   To place inside a bucket.

10. bucketverb

    To rain heavily.

11. bucketverb

    To travel very quickly.

12. bucketverb

    To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.

13. 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.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Bucketnoun

   Etymology: baquet, Fr.

   1. The vessel in which water is drawn out of a well.

   Now is this golden crown like a deep well,
   That owes two buckets, filling one another;
   The emptier ever dancing in the air,
   The other down unseen, and full of water. William Shakespeare, R. II.

   Is the sea ever likely to be evaporated by the sun, or to be emptied with buckets? Richard Bentley.

   2. The vessels in which water is carried, particularly to quench a fire.

   Now streets grow throng’d, and, busy as by day,
   Some run for buckets to the hallow’d quire;
   Some cut the pipes, and some the engines play;
   And some, more bold, mount ladders to the fire. Dryden.

   The porringers, that in a row
   Hung high, and made a glitt’ring show,
   To a less noble substance chang’d,
   Were now but leathern buckets rang’d. Jonathan Swift.

Wikipedia(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Bucket

   A bucket is typically a watertight, vertical cylinder or truncated cone or square, with an open top and a flat bottom, attached to a semicircular carrying handle called the bail.A bucket is usually an open-top container. In contrast, a pail can have a top or lid and is a shipping container. In common usage, the two terms are often used interchangeably.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Bucketnoun

   a vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids

2. Bucketnoun

   a vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc

3. Bucketnoun

   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

4. Bucketnoun

   the valved piston of a lifting pump

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. bucket

   A small globe of hoops, covered with canvas, used as a recall for the boats of whalers.

Rap Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. bucketnoun

   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).

2. bucketnoun

   Gravity bong.

3. bucketnoun

   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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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  

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1. • Carry
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British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'bucket' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3619

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'bucket' in Nouns Frequency: #2423

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of bucket in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of bucket in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of bucket in a Sentence

1. George Orwell:

   Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

2. Cam Berlogar:

   It's a matter of who has the longest straw at the bottom of the bucket.

3. Geoff Revell:

   If you give people a bucket and a piece of soap, more often than not you will find the bucket ends up being used for something else, but if they spend some money on a product they like and actually want to own, it's much more likely that they will keep using it and form a healthy habit of washing their hands regularly.

4. Carl Sandburg:

   I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

5. Doris Fleeson:

   It is occasionally possible to charge hell with a bucket of water, but against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

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