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Definition bucket

Etymology

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 *b?cus (compare Occitan and Catalan buc, Italian buco, buca (“hole, gap”)), from Frankish *b?k (“belly, stomach”). Both the Old English and Frankish terms derive from Proto-Germanic *b?kaz (“belly, stomach”). More at bouk.

Noun

bucket (plural buckets)

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. (Britain, archaic) A unit of measure equal to four gallons.
4. Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
5. (slang) An old vehicle that is not in good working order.
6. (basketball, informal) The basket.
7. (basketball, informal) A field goal.
8. (variation management) A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
9. (computing) A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
10. (informal, chiefly in the plural) A large amount of liquid.
11. A bucket bag.
12. The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted.
13. The pitcher in certain orchids.

Verb

bucket (third-person singular simple present buckets, present participle bucketing, simple past and past participle bucketed)

1. (transitive) To place inside a bucket.
2. (transitive) To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.
3. (intransitive, informal) To rain heavily.
4. (intransitive, informal) To travel very quickly.
5. (computing, transitive) To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.
6. (transitive) To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
7. (transitive, Britain, US, rowing) To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.

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