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buckets

/ˈbʌkɪts/

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noun

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

Examples :

"I need a bucket to carry the water from the well."

item utensil utility thing

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noun

The amount held in this container.

Examples :

"The horse drank a whole bucket of water."

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A unit of measure equal to four gallons.

Examples :

"The farmer needed two buckets of water to feed his chickens. "

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

Examples :

"The Ferris wheel turned slowly, bringing the buckets with their passengers around for another rotation. "

machine part technical

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An old vehicle that is not in good working order.

Examples :

"My grandpa still drives his old buckets to the store every week, even though it makes a lot of noise. "

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noun

Examples :

"The forward drove to the bucket."

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noun

Examples :

""The basketball player scored two buckets in the last minute of the game." "

sport achievement

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(variation management) A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.

Examples :

""The new budget system uses buckets to prevent department heads from spending excessively in one area and leaving others without funds." "

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

Examples :

"In the computer program's address book, all the names starting with "A" are stored in the same buckets because they share that initial letter as a key. "

computing technology math

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noun

(chiefly in the plural) A large amount of liquid.

Examples :

"I was so nervous that I sweated buckets."

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noun

Examples :

"She carried her lunch and a small notebook in a stylish leather buckets. "

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

Examples :

"The mounted soldier carefully placed the lance in its leather buckets. "

vehicle military part utensil

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The pitcher in certain orchids.

Examples :

"The insect was trapped inside one of the orchid's colorful buckets. "

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verb

To place inside a bucket.

Examples :

"She buckets the sand into the red pail. "

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verb

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

Examples :

"to bucket water"

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verb

To rain heavily.

Examples :

"It’s really bucketing down out there."

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To travel very quickly.

Examples :

"The boat is bucketing along."

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

Examples :

"The teacher buckled the student's homework assignments into buckets: one for math problems, one for English essays, and one for science projects. "

computing business statistics technology

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To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.

Examples :

"The jockey bucketed the exhausted horse in the final stretch, desperately trying to win the race. "

action animal sport

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

Examples :

"He bucketed the last shovelful of snow onto the growing pile, his back aching. "