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bucket
English
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.
Pronunciation
- enPR: bûk'?t, IPA(key): /?b?k?t/
- Rhymes: -?k?t
Noun
bucket (plural buckets)
- 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.
- The amount held in this container.
- The horse drank a whole bucket of water.
- (Britain, archaic) A unit of measure equal to four gallons.
- Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
- (slang) An old vehicle that is not in good working order.
- (basketball, informal) The basket.
- The forward drove to the bucket.
- (basketball, informal) A field goal.
- We can't keep giving up easy buckets.
- (variation management) A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
- (computing) A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
- (informal, chiefly in the plural) A large amount of liquid.
- It rained buckets yesterday.
- I was so nervous that I sweated buckets.
- A bucket bag.
- 1989, Susan Ludwig, Janice Steinberg, Petite Style (page 46)
- Avoid bulky styles such as duffle sacks, buckets, doctors' satchels, and hobos.
- 1989, Susan Ludwig, Janice Steinberg, Petite Style (page 46)
- The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted.
- The pitcher in certain orchids.
Synonyms
- (container): pail
- (piece of machinery): scoop, vane, blade
- (old car): banger, jalopy, rustbucket
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Farefare: b?gt?
- ? Japanese: ??? (baketsu)
Translations
See also
- barrel
- keg
- pail
- tub
Verb
bucket (third-person singular simple present buckets, present participle bucketing, simple past and past participle bucketed)
- (transitive) To place inside a bucket.
- (transitive) To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.
- to bucket water
- (intransitive, informal) To rain heavily.
- It’s really bucketing down out there.
- (intransitive, informal) To travel very quickly.
- The boat is bucketing along.
- (computing, transitive) To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.
- 2002, Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi, Masayuki Numao, Rüdiger Reischuk, Algorithmic Learning Theory: 13th International Conference (page 352)
- These candidates are then bucketed into a discretized version of the space of all possible lines.
- 2002, Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi, Masayuki Numao, Rüdiger Reischuk, Algorithmic Learning Theory: 13th International Conference (page 352)
- (transitive) To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
- (transitive, Britain, US, rowing) To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.
Synonyms
- (rain heavily): chuck it down, piss down, rain cats and dogs
- (travel very quickly): hurtle, rocket, shoot, speed, whizz, book it
Translations
References
- bucket in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Further reading
- bucket on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
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becket
English
Etymology
Compare Dutch bek (“beak”) beak, and English beak.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?b?k?t/
Homophone: Beckett
Noun
becket (plural beckets)
- (obsolete) chough (the bird)
- (nautical) A short piece of rope spliced to form a circle
- (nautical) A loop of rope with a knot at one end to catch in an eye at the other end. Used to secure oars etc. at their place.
- (sewing) A loop of thread, typically braided, attached at each end to a jacket. Used to pass through the brooch bar of medals to affix them to the jacket without damaging it.
- (nautical) The clevis of a pulley block.
- An eye in the end of a rope.
- (nautical, slang) A pocket in clothing.
- 1855, Henry Augustus Wise, Tales for the Marines (page 121)
- At the same time, mind, I must have a bit of a frolic occasionally, for that's all the pleasure I has, when I gets a little chink in my becket; and ye know, too, that I don t care much for that stuff, for a dollar goes with me as fur as a gold ounce does with you, when ye put on your grand airs, and shower it about like a nabob.
- 1855, Henry Augustus Wise, Tales for the Marines (page 121)
- A method of joining fabric, for example the doors of a tent, by interlacing loops of cord (beckets) through eyelet holes and adjacent loops.
- (Britain, dialect) A spade for digging turf.
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Translations
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