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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

   Scrabble Points: 14

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   A bucket is a container with an open top and a handle, often used for carrying liquids. Learn more about the word bucket, its synonyms, idioms, and usage in different contexts with Cambridge Dictionary.

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   Bucket definition: 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.. See examples of BUCKET used in a sentence.

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   1. a deep, cylindrical container, usu. of metal, plastic, or wood, with a flat bottom and a semicircular bail. 2. a. any of the scoops in certain types of conveyors or elevators. b. the scoop or clamshell of a steam or power shovel.

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   Learn the meaning, pronunciation and usage of the word bucket, a noun for an open container or a large amount. Find out the idioms and collocations with bucket and see example sentences.