bucket

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small…

   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. 2

   The amount held in this container.

   • The horse drank a whole bucket of water.
3. 3

   A large amount of liquid.

   • It rained buckets yesterday.
   • I was so nervous that I sweated buckets.
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   1. 4

      A great deal of anything.

      • My new suit cost me buckets.
      • We had buckets of fun.
   2. 5

      A unit of measure equal to four gallons.

   3. 6

      Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).

   4. 7

      Someone who habitually uses crack cocaine.

   5. 8

      An old vehicle that is not in good working order.

   6. 9

      The basket.

      • The forward drove to the bucket.
   7. 10

      A field goal.

      • We can't keep giving up easy buckets.
   8. 11

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

   9. 12

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

   10. 13

       A turbine blade driven by hot gas or steam.

   11. 14

       A bucket bag.

       • Avoid bulky styles such as duffle sacks, buckets, doctors' satchels, and hobos.
   12. 15

       The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when…

       The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted.

   13. 16

       The pitcher in certain orchids.

   14. 17

       A helmet.

   15. 18

       To place inside a bucket.

   16. 19

       To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.

       • to bucket water
   17. 20

       To rain heavily.

       • It’s really bucketing down out there.
   18. 21

       To travel very quickly.

       • The boat is bucketing along.
   19. 22

       To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.

   20. 23

       To criticize vehemently

       To criticize vehemently; to denigrate.

   21. 24

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

       • These candidates are then bucketed into a discretized version of the space of all possible lines.
       • Thus, sorting each bucket takes O(1) times. The total effort of bucketing, sorting buckets, and concotenating^([sic]) the sorted buckets together is O(n).
   22. 25

       To engage in an illegal practice where a broker confirms a client's trade order without…

       To engage in an illegal practice where a broker confirms a client's trade order without actually executing it on the free market.

       • In United States v. Ficken (N.D. Ohio) the defendant was sentenced to 18 years imprisonment after pleading guilty to charges of converting clients' funds by "bucketing" their orders.
   23. 26

       To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward…

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

   24. 27

       Nickname for Pawtucket

       Nickname for Pawtucket: a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States.

       • ‘You really think the Bucket's a shithole, Mousy?’ ’[They should] put a toilet seat on top of this place.’
       • Rhode Island had a way of trapping its inhabitants like roaches that check in but can never escape. Pawtucket, The Bucket was especially gluey that way.

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