bucket
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle English boket
English bucket
From Middle English buket, boket, partly from Old English bucc ("bucket, pitcher"; mod. dialectal buck), equivalent to bouk + -et; and partly from Anglo-Norman buket, buquet (“tub; pail”) (compare Norman boutchet, Norman bouquet), diminutive of Old French buc (“abdomen; object with a cavity”), from Vulgar Latin *būcus (compare Occitan and Catalan buc, Italian buco, buca (“hole, gap”)), from Frankish *būk (“belly, stomach”). Both the Old English and Frankish terms derive from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, stomach”). More at bouk.
Base: bouk
Affixes: -et
Inflected forms:
form: buckets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: buckets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bucketing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bucketed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bucketed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
pos: noun
examples: I need a bucket to carry the water from the well.
The crab was cool and very light. But the water was thick with sand, and so, scrambling down, Jacob was about to jump, holding his bucket in front of him, when he saw, stretched entirely rigid, side by side, their faces very red, an enormous man and woman.
gloss: The amount held in this container.
pos: noun
examples: The horse drank a whole bucket of water.
gloss: A large amount of liquid.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
informal
examples: It rained buckets yesterday.
I was so nervous that I sweated buckets.
gloss: A great deal of anything.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
informal
examples: My new suit cost me buckets.
We had buckets of fun.
gloss: A unit of measure equal to four gallons.
pos: noun
tags: UK
archaic
gloss: The part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who habitually uses crack cocaine.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
gloss: An old vehicle that is not in good working order.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: The basket.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: The forward drove to the bucket.
gloss: A field goal.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: We can't keep giving up easy buckets.
[Markieff] Morris isn’t quite the post-up threat that [Enes] Kanter is, and he can play both the 4 spot and 5 spot instead of just center, like Kanter. He is capable of playing a similar way, backing defenders down in the post. He prefers getting his buckets there with a bevy of fade-aways and jumpers. He’s a heat checker. And he can get hot on the block.
gloss: A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
pos: noun
gloss: A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
pos: noun
gloss: A turbine blade driven by hot gas or steam.
pos: noun
tags: uncommon
gloss: A bucket bag.
pos: noun
examples: Avoid bulky styles such as duffle sacks, buckets, doctors' satchels, and hobos.
gloss: The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted.
pos: noun
gloss: The pitcher in certain orchids.
pos: noun
gloss: A helmet.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
slang
gloss: To place inside a bucket.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to bucket water
gloss: To rain heavily.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: It’s really bucketing down out there.
gloss: To travel very quickly.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: The boat is bucketing along.
gloss: To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To criticize vehemently; to denigrate.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
slang
transitive
gloss: To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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).
gloss: To engage in an illegal practice where a broker confirms a client's trade order without actually executing it on the free market.
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.
pos: verb
tags: UK
US
transitive
Related words: barrel
keg
pail
tub
Derived words: Bambi bucket
bargain bucket
bit bucket
bit-bucket
blucket
bolt bucket
brain-bucket
brain bucket
bucket and spade
bucketball
bucket bong
bucket brigade
bucket chemistry
bucket drive
bucket drummer
bucketeer
bucketer
bucket flush
bucketful
bucket hat
bucket head
bucket-head
bucketize
bucketless
bucketlike
bucket line
bucket list
bucketload
bucketmaker
bucketmaking
bucketmouth
bucket naked
bucket of blood
bucket of bolts
bucket of rust
bucket of sunshine
bucket of syrup
bucket orchid
bucket rendering
bucketry
bucket seat
bucket shop
bucket sort
bucket steak
bucket truck
bucketwheel
buckety
byte bucket
can't carry a tune in a bucket
champagne bucket
chumbucket
couldn't carry a note in a bucket
crab bucket syndrome
cumbucket
cunt bucket
cuntbucket
diaper bucket
drool bucket
drop in the bucket
fire bucket
fire-bucket
gin bucket
grab bucket
great bit bucket in the sky
gutbucket
helibucket
helicopter bucket
holy bucket
honey bucket
ice bucket
ice bucket challenge
in the bucket
jizz bucket
kick the bucket
lard-bucket
lardbucket
leaky bucket
light bucket
lunch bucket
mercy bucket
monsoon bucket
mop bucket
mudbucket
nappy bucket
orange-peel bucket
paint bucket
pig bucket
rustbucket
rust-bucket
rust bucket
scruffbucket
scuzzbucket
sleazebucket
slimebucket
slop bucket
spit bucket
sweat buckets
tarbucket
thrust bucket
token bucket
turdbucket
two tears in a bucket
Veronica bucket
bucket about
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