bucket

buck·et

 (bŭk′ĭt)

n.

1.

a. A cylindrical vessel used for holding or carrying liquids or solids; a pail.

b. The amount that a bucket can hold: One bucket of paint will be enough for the ceiling.

2. A unit of dry measure in the US Customary System equal to 2 pecks (17.6 liters).

3. A receptacle on various machines, such as the scoop of a power shovel or the compartments on a water wheel, used to gather and convey material.

4. Basketball A basket.

v. buck·et·ed, buck·et·ing, buck·ets

v.tr.

1. To hold, carry, or put in a bucket: bucket up water from a well.

2. To ride (a horse) long and hard.

v.intr.

1. To move or proceed rapidly and jerkily: bucketing over the unpaved lane.

2. To make haste; hustle.

Idiom:

a drop in the bucket

An insufficient or inconsequential amount in comparison with what is required.

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[Middle English, from Anglo-Norman buket, from Frankish *būk, belly, hollow thing, from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (also the source of German Bauch, belly), perhaps ultimately of imitative origin (suggesting the notion of inflation or distension).]

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bucket

(ˈbʌkɪt)

n

1. an open-topped roughly cylindrical container; pail

2. Also called: bucketful the amount a bucket will hold

3. (Mechanical Engineering) any of various bucket-like parts of a machine, such as the scoop on a mechanical shovel

4. (Mechanical Engineering) a cupped blade or bucket-like compartment on the outer circumference of a water wheel, paddle wheel, etc

5. (Computer Science) computing a unit of storage on a direct-access device from which data can be retrieved

6. (Mechanical Engineering) chiefly US a turbine rotor blade

7. Austral and NZ an ice cream container

8. kick the bucket slang to die

vb, -kets, -keting or -keted

9. (tr) to carry in or put into a bucket

10. (often foll by: down) (of rain) to fall very heavily: it bucketed all day.

11. chiefly (often foll by: along) Brit to travel or drive fast

12. (tr) chiefly Brit to ride (a horse) hard without consideration

13. (tr) slang Austral to criticize severely

[C13: from Anglo-French buket, from Old English būc; compare Old High German būh belly, German Bauch belly]

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buck•et

(ˈbʌk ɪt)
n.

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.

c. a vane or blade of a waterwheel, paddle wheel, or the like.

v.t.

3. to lift, carry, or handle in a bucket (often fol. by up or out).

v.i.

4. Chiefly Brit. to move or drive fast.

Idioms:

1. drop in the bucket, a small, inadequate amount.

2. kick the bucket, Slang. to die.

[1250–1300; Middle English buket < Anglo-French < Old English bucc, variant of būc vessel, belly]

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bucket

Past participle: bucketed
Gerund: bucketing

Imperative

bucket

bucket

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Thesaurus

Noun	1.	bucket - a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top pail cannikin - a wooden bucket dinner bucket, dinner pail - a pail in which a workman carries his lunch or dinner dredging bucket - a bucket for lifting material from a channel or riverbed kibble - an iron bucket used for hoisting in wells or mining slop jar, slop pail - a large pail used to receive waste water from a washbasin or chamber pot vessel - an object used as a container (especially for liquids) water wheel, waterwheel - a wheel that rotates by direct action of water; a simple turbine wine bucket, wine cooler - a bucket of ice used to chill a bottle of wine
	2.	bucket - the quantity contained in a bucket bucketful containerful - the quantity that a container will hold
Verb	1.	bucket - put into a bucket lay, place, put, set, position, pose - put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"
	2.	bucket - carry in a bucket carry, transport - move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body; "You must carry your camping gear"; "carry the suitcases to the car"; "This train is carrying nuclear waste"; "These pipes carry waste water into the river"

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bucket

noun

1. pail, container, pitcher, scuttle We drew water in a bucket from a well outside the door.

plural noun

1. loads, floods, oceans He was weeping buckets.

verb (often with down) pour down, rain heavily, lash down, pelt down, come down in torrents, teem down, torrent As soon as we were inside, the rain began to bucket down.

kick the bucket die, expire, perish, pass away, buy it (U.S. slang), check out (U.S. slang), kick it (slang), croak (slang), give up the ghost, go belly-up (slang), snuff it (slang), peg out (informal), buy the farm (U.S. slang), peg it (informal), decease, cark it (Austral. & N.Z. slang), pop your clogs (informal), breathe your last, hop the twig (slang) I don't plan on kicking the bucket for another thirty years.

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bucket

verb

To move swiftly:

bolt, bustle, dart, dash, festinate, flash, fleet, flit, fly, haste, hasten, hurry, hustle, pelt, race, rocket, run, rush, sail, scoot, scour, shoot, speed, sprint, tear, trot, whirl, whisk, whiz, wing, zip, zoom.

Informal: hotfoot, rip.

Slang: barrel, highball.

Chiefly British: nip.

Idioms: get a move on, get cracking, go like lightning, go like the wind, hotfoot it, make haste, make time, make tracks, run like the wind, shake a leg, step on it.

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Translations

دَلْوسَطْل، دَلْو

kbelíkkýblvědro

spand

EimerSchaufeldurchrütteln

κουβάςσακαράκα

sitelo

cubobaldecubetapozaltobo

ämberpang

ämpäriämpärillinenkauhakotterosangollinen

seauseillebacbaquetbenne

kabaokanta

vedervödör

fata

secchiobennabugliolopiovere a dirottoscomparto

バケツ

버킷

hamasitula

kibiras

spainis

emmerplenzenrammelkarvlammen

bøttespann

wiadro

balde

ведроковшковшовыйбадья

vedro

vedro

hink

ndoo

ถัง

kova

xô

桶水桶

bucket

[ˈbʌkɪt]

A. N → cubo m, balde m (LAm); (child's) → cubito m; [of waterwheel etc] → cangilón m
a bucket of water → un cubo or (LAm) un balde de agua
to rain buckets → llover a cántaros
to weep buckets → llorar a mares
see also kick B1

B. VI

1. (= hurtle) → ir a toda velocidad, ir a toda pastilla (Sp)

2. the rain is bucketing down it's bucketing (down) → está lloviendo a cántaros

C. CPD bucket seat N → asiento m envolvente
bucket shop N (Fin) → agencia f de bolsa fraudulenta (Brit) (for air tickets) → agencia f de viajes que vende barato

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

bucket

[ˈbʌkɪt] n → seau m
to kick the bucket → casser sa pipe

bucket down

vi (British) to bucket down
The rain is bucketing down → Il pleut à verse., Il tombe des cordes.

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

bucket

n (also of dredger, grain elevator) → Eimer m; (of excavator, water wheel) → Schaufel f; a bucket of water → ein Eimer m → Wasser; to weep or cry buckets (inf) → wie ein Schlosshund heulen (inf); it’s coming down in buckets (US inf) → es gießt or schüttet wie aus or mit Kübeln (inf) ? kick, drop

vi (Brit inf) it’s bucketing!, the rain is bucketing (down)! → es gießt or schüttet wie aus or mit Kübeln (inf)

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bucket

:

bucket seat

n → Schalensitz m

bucket shop

n (Fin) → unreelle Maklerfirma, Schwindelmakler m; (= travel agency) → Agentur f → für Billigreisen

bucketwheel

n (Tech) → Schöpfrad nt

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bucket

[ˈbʌkɪt]

1. n → secchio; (large) → secchia

2. vi (Brit) (fam) the rain is bucketing (down) → piove a catinelle

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

bucket

(ˈbakit) noun

a container for holding water, milk etc. We carried water in buckets to the burning house. emmer سَطْل، دَلْو кофа balde kbelík, vědro der Eimer spand κουβάςcubo ämber سطل sanko seauדלי बाल्टी kabao vödör ember secchio バケツ 버킷, 물통, 들통 kibiras spainis timba emmerbøtte, spannwiadro سطل balde găleată ведро džber, vedro vedro kofa ämbar, spann, hink ถัง kova 水桶 відро بالٹی ، ڈول thùng; xô 水桶

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.

bucket

→ دَلْو kbelík spand Eimer κουβάς balde, cubo ämpäri seau kanta secchio バケツ 버킷 emmer bøtte wiadro balde ведро hink ถัง kova xô 桶

Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009

bucket

n. cubeta, cubo, balde.

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