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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bucket
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bucket seat
bucket shop
ice bucket
sweat like a pig/sweat bucketsinformal (= sweat a lot)
▪ basketball players sweating buckets
weep bucketsinformal (= produce a lot of tears)
▪ I didn’t know if she would get well, and I wept buckets every night.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
large
▪ It pays to have friendly neighbours or a large bucket at this stage.
▪ In general, consecutive spill should be considered for low packing densities and/or very large bucket sizes.
▪ This was most marked for large bucket sizes.
▪ In this case the cylinder can be treated as a very large bucket.
■ NOUN
ice
▪ Gouts of blood, on the bar towels, the ice bucket.
▪ Just forget about anyone wheeling a linen-covered table into your room with plates, silverware, wine glasses and ice buckets.
▪ There was an ice bucket in the middle and a bottle of chilled champagne.
▪ She was counting silver ice buckets for the do.
▪ What did she need ice buckets for?
▪ He reaches for the ice bucket and starts pouring the champagne.
plastic
▪ I now use a small plastic bucket to keep the worms and feed them on bread and milk.
▪ The plastic buckets were slowly filled.
▪ If the Palaeolithic stone axe is immediately succeeded in a section by a plastic bucket, then we must suspect a gap.
▪ No flowers, no marble vases, just empty plastic buckets and washing-up bowls.
▪ I couldn't go without my red plastic bucket, or rather three of them.
▪ Harriet stood there in breeches and waxed jacket, holding a rope halter and a plastic bucket.
▪ Robinson and Porter both retrieved the small plastic buckets from one corner of the cell and wandered out on to the landing.
▪ He had asked for, and eventually been given, a plastic bucket of cold water and a sponge.
seat
▪ These are the colours of lines on Beck's map and also sometimes of station trims and new station bucket seats.
▪ Sherman and Maria are sitting in their tan leather bucket seats staring right at them.
▪ Even multimillionaires don't like getting blood all over their soft, beige leather bucket seats.
shop
▪ There is an art in quitting a bucket shop.
▪ After all, Merrill Lynch is not a bucket shop.
▪ Harvard dealers know more than their counterparts at newer bucket shops, and so have more choice of career direction.
▪ Most would find their next jobs in similar bucket shops.
▪ Oxford felt like a transatlantic liner in the age of bucket shops and cut-price charters.
▪ Successful salesmen in bucket shops scorn weak or moralising colleagues, just as they do all the clients.
▪ In contrast, the streetwise dealers require quicker money, and may end up in a bucket shop on the Continent.
slop
▪ Men who had emptied their slop buckets were returning to their cells.
▪ There was a table and two wooden chairs at the far end by the slop buckets.
▪ Clinton sat down beside the slop bucket and smiled at the two men.
▪ So the bread was deposited in the slop bucket.
▪ But not as sick as Vicky, who every morning now staggered up to retch helplessly into the slop bucket.
▪ Robinson smiled as he lifted the plastic cover from the slop bucket to reveal a lump of excrement.
water
▪ How far do you have to carry hay, bedding and water buckets?
▪ He caught a bee, sang, and pecked at the water bucket.
▪ He stared at it for a second, then picked up a water bucket and threw it.
▪ Sullen girls walked barefoot from the public spigot with water buckets balanced on their heads.
■ VERB
bring
▪ He brought her a silver bucket of ice cubes with the glimmer of a flourish.
▪ Or just me bringing my night bucket into his cabin.
▪ Her owner rushed to bring her a bucket of oats before she should become entangled in the fence once again.
carry
▪ A flash of white feathers in the field, and the old woman was carrying a bucket.
▪ After the sweet juice is extracted, they carry it in wooden buckets on their heads to the next stage.
▪ I had to make several trips every day, carrying one bucket on my head and another resting on my hip.
▪ Every flush meant carrying a bucket of water up three flights of stairs.
▪ Then suddenly Irina appeared carrying a bucket.
▪ Water was carried in leather buckets from the spring along by the castle, a quarter of a mile down the track.
drop
▪ He'd dropped the bucket from the top of the ladder.
▪ While the gulls look on, I select a few of the larger, livelier fish and drop them into my bucket.
▪ I drop it into the bucket.
empty
▪ It was absolutely pouring down as though some one up top was emptying buckets.
▪ Have been very bad, and can hardly get downstairs to empty the bucket and fetch more tea.
▪ A tall woman leaned from a balcony and emptied a bucket of water over them.
▪ Men who had emptied their slop buckets were returning to their cells.
▪ She was still praying as she emptied the bucket over the logs.
fill
▪ I was like a thirsty man watching raindrops fill a bucket.
▪ Each fills her bucket and comes to stand in a circle around me.
▪ If Jamie Mitchell filled his rust bucket up with petrol, it'd double the value.
▪ Puny filled the scrub bucket and went to work with her brush.
▪ Or they may take advantage of visits to dischargers for other purposes to fill a sample bucket at the same time.
hold
▪ He stood in the door of the milking house, holding out the buckets for her to take.
▪ A third held a bucket of holy water towards the priest.
▪ At first, when Perdita held out the bucket, she was too frozen with fear to drink.
▪ Willie held an empty bucket and a small bag, while Zach carried a basket and satchel.
▪ Each of them held a small bucket.
kick
▪ Jinny was so startled that she nearly kicked the bucket over.
▪ Sometimes we were, some-times the drunk soldiers laughed as they kicked over our buckets.
▪ If Primrose was in a black mood she would like as not kick the bucket over.
pour
▪ He had crept unnoticed into the yard, stripped off and poured a bucket of water over his head.
▪ They take turns; one pours a full bucket over my head like a waterfall.
▪ She poured a little into the bucket.
▪ Well, one day I sat down to play and found somebody had poured a bucket of sand into the piano.
put
▪ George put down the bucket and strode over to her to give her a pat.
▪ Or a guard will put a bucket on your head and whack it with a truncheon.
throw
▪ She liked the sizzling sound of the water as it hit the stones when some one threw it from the bucket.
▪ Conrad Burns by throwing a five-gallon bucket of bison entrails on them during a public meeting.
▪ Some still threw buckets of snow into the small flames that lived.
▪ And customers at the Hutchinsons' shop have contributed more than £200 in loose change thrown into a collecting bucket on the counter.
▪ He threw in a bucket of groundbait, a pint of maggots, and fished all night without a bite.
use
▪ I now use a small plastic bucket to keep the worms and feed them on bread and milk.
▪ We were afraid to use the buckets behind one of the partitions as we did during the air raids.
▪ Instead, home records are located using the bucket index and overflow records via the home bucket and a tag.
▪ Soak in a solution of acid cleaner. Use the waste bucket after emptying and cleaning. 2.
▪ To rinse out the sponge, I simply use a bucket of water.
▪ I use old wooden buckets and half-barrels with noble histories.
▪ He would solve the problem of the lack of a lavatory by using a bucket in the unused part of the attic.
▪ In the past, pearl fishing was often carried out by travelling people who used a glass-bottomed bucket to locate them.
weep
▪ I wept buckets, but it wasn't until later that I realized what had happened.
▪ During a comical lesson on how to catch her man, Little Cog is told she must weep not buckets but spoons.
▪ When a girl was caught stealing sugar from the kitchen she wept buckets at the telling off she received.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
kick the bucket
▪ When I kick the bucket you'll be able to live on my life insurance.
▪ If Primrose was in a black mood she would like as not kick the bucket over.
▪ Jinny was so startled that she nearly kicked the bucket over.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It pays to have friendly neighbours or a large bucket at this stage.
▪ Most will walk home later, ashamed that their buckets are empty.
▪ On one wall you see a projected image of a man bathing himself from an enameled bucket.
▪ The bucket has teeth the size of a man, and room to park three stretch limos.
▪ The steamy yellow gruel in the bucket splashed out on to the kitchen floor.
II.verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As she was undressing it began to rain again, and soon it was bucketing down.
▪ At times Rubberneck wept, shed, and for no apparent reason, bucketing tears in dreadful fits of sadness.
▪ He bucketed across the fields and mounted the road at five-fifteen.
▪ The metal body jumped and bucketed beneath her on the ruts.
▪ Trent rode in first gear, headlight tunnelling into the forest gloom through which the rain bucketed.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bucket

Bucket \Buck"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bucketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Bucketing.]

  1. To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets; as, to bucket water.

  2. To pour over from a bucket; to drench.

  3. To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.

  4. (Rowing) To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.

Bucket

Bucket \Buck"et\, n. [OE. boket; cf. AS. buc pitcher, or Corn. buket tub.]

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

    The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well.
    --Wordsworth.

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

  3. (Mach.) 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. The valved piston of a lifting pump.

  5. (Mach.) one of vanes on the rotor of a turbine.

  6. (Mach.) a bucketfull.

    Fire bucket, a bucket for carrying water to put out fires.

    To kick the bucket, to die. [Low]

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bucket

mid-13c., from Anglo-French buquet "bucket, pail," from Old French buquet "bucket," which is from Frankish or some other Germanic source, or a diminutive of cognate Old English buc "pitcher, bulging vessel," originally "belly" (buckets were formerly of leather as well as wood), both from West Germanic *buh- (cognates: Dutch buik, Old High German buh, German Bauch "belly"), possibly from a variant of PIE root *beu-, *bheu- "to grow, swell" (see bull (n.2)).\n

\nKick the bucket "to die" (1785) perhaps is from unrelated Old French buquet "balance," a beam from which slaughtered animals were hung; perhaps reinforced by the notion of suicide by hanging after standing on an upturned bucket (but Farmer calls attention to bucket "a Norfolk term for a pulley").

Wiktionary
bucket

n. 1 A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items. 2 The amount held in this container. 3 (label en UK archaic) A unit of measure equal to four gallons. 4 Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a '''bucket'''. 5 (context slang English) An old car that is not in good working order. 6 (context basketball informal English) The basket. 7 (context basketball informal English) A field goal. 8 (context variation management English) A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement. 9 (context computing English) A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key. 10 (context informal chiefly plural English) A large amount of liquid. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To place inside a bucket. 2 (context transitive English) To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets. 3 (context intransitive informal English) To rain heavily. 4 (context intransitive informal English) To travel very quickly. 5 (context computing transitive English) To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items. 6 (cx transitive English) To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly. 7 (cx transitive UK rowing English) To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.

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WordNet
bucket

  1. n. a roughly cylindrical that is vessel open at the top [syn: pail]

  2. the quantity contained in a bucket [syn: bucketful]

bucket

  1. v. put into a bucket

  2. carry in a bucket

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Wikipedia
Bucket

A bucket or pail is typically a watertight, vertical cylinder or truncated cone, with an open top and a flat bottom, attached to a semicircular carrying handle called the bail.

Bucket (computing)

In computing, the term bucket can have several meanings. It is used both as a live metaphor, and as a generally accepted technical term in some specialised areas. A bucket is most commonly a type of data buffer or a type of document in which data is divided into regions.

Bucket (disambiguation)

Bucket is a cylindrical or conical container for transporting liquid or granular material. Bucket or Buckets may also refer to:

Bucket (song)

"Bucket" is a song by Canadian singer/songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen, released in April 2009 as the third single from her debut studio album, Tug of War. The song peaked at number 32 on the Canadian Hot 100.

Bucket (machine part)

A bucket (also called a scoop to qualify shallower designs of tools) is a specialized container attached to a machine, as compared to a bucket adapted to the form of a human being. It is a bulk material handling component.

The bucket has an inner volume as compared to other types of machine attachments like blades or shovels.

The bucket could be attached to the lifting hook of a crane, at the end of the arm of an excavating machine, to the wires of a dragline excavator, to the arms of a power shovel or a tractor equipped with a backhoe loader or to a loader, or to a dredge.

The name "bucket" may have been coined from buckets used in water wheels, or used in water turbines or in similar-looking devices.

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Usage examples of "bucket".

Leaving a dozen men with buckets, readily filled from the acequia which turned the old water wheel just across the post of No.

The two women disappeared behind the afterclap, the canvas screen at the back of the wagon, and Sarah called for the servants to bring the copper hip bath and buckets of hot water from the cooking fire.

Calling this a castle is like calling a puddle on a privy floor a lake, Alayne thought, when the bucket was opened so they might emerge within the waycastle.

Upending a bucket, Alec sat down to watch Seregil finish w ith the horse.

Sanders sat beside Aragon in the front seat, while Louise Peret, her dark hair flowing behind her in the slipstream, sat in one of the bucket seats behind.

The aspergillum he handed her was a tuft of evergreen bound to a handle of myrtlewood, stuck in a small silver bucket of holy water.

Wellington Bunn was one, ran back and forth from the water barrel, carrying the filled buckets and splashing the contents on the flames.

After he had gone, Shadow on the Frost began to shake, and to emit the familiar burble of bubbles in a metal bucket.

Rubahy made a strange, burbling noise, like bubbles rising in a very deep metal bucket, which Jak remembered from school was supposed to be the sound of laughter.

But she was mistaken, and it was brought home forcibly to her one morning in the new year when Luke deliberately kicked her bucket of milk over the cow-splattered dirty floor of the byre, after which they had stood glaring at each other.

And she surprised him still further by swinging round and throwing the empty milk bucket against the byre wall, then marching out across the yard to the cottage.

Longarm knew as he rolled the back-shot back-shooter face-up in the grass that he and Pat, between them, had killed the skinny cuss deader than a turd in a milk bucket.

However, when at last the job was done, and they tossed into the bucket the last few coins that remained, Biggles estimated that between forty and fifty thousand doubloons, moidores, and ducats, with a sprinkling of oriental pieces, had been carried.

In the dreamlet, her human figure conjured a bucket of red paint and flung it at the cowled Ghina figure.

Raf told himself and lifted a bunch of red flowers from a bucket in front of a store near the corner of al-Atarinne and Rue Faud Premier.