Bucket
/ˈbʌkɪt/noun
A container with a handle, used for holding and carrying liquids.
She filled a bucket with water
Often appears as...
- kick the bucket
- a drop in the bucket
noun
In computing, a storage space where data is temporarily held.
The program uses hash buckets to store data
Often appears as...
- hash bucket
- storage bucket
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Technical
verb
To move quickly and directly towards someone or something, often without control.
He bucketed down the stairs
Often appears as...
- bucket down the stairs
- bucket along the street
noun
The part of a machine which picks up or moves things in a scoop.
The digger's bucket scooped up the dirt
Often appears as...
- digger's bucket
- bucket load
verb
To pour rain heavily.
It's bucketing outside
Often appears as...
- bucketing rain
- bucketing down
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Disapproving
noun
A container with a handle, used for holding and carrying liquids.
She filled a bucket with water
Often appears as...
- kick the bucket
- a drop in the bucket
noun
In computing, a storage space where data is temporarily held.
The program uses hash buckets to store data
Often appears as...
- hash bucket
- storage bucket
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To move quickly and directly towards someone or something, often without control.
He bucketed down the stairs
Often appears as...
- bucket down the stairs
- bucket along the street
noun
The part of a machine which picks up or moves things in a scoop.
The digger's bucket scooped up the dirt
Often appears as...
- digger's bucket
- bucket load
verb
To pour rain heavily.
It's bucketing outside
Often appears as...
- bucketing rain
- bucketing down
Usage tips
Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/3Variety of Uses
Not limited to water; can carry various substances and small items.
He used the bucket to carry the apples.
Pro Tip 2/3Casual Expression
'Kick the bucket' is an informal way to say someone has died.
My grandfather kicked the bucket last year.
Pro Tip 3/3Quantitative Expression
'Drop in the bucket' means a tiny amount in comparison to what's needed.
The charity donation was just a drop in the bucket.
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Stuart Firestein: The...
is a model more like the magic well, where no matter how many buckets you take out, there's always another bucket of water to be had, or my particularly favorite one, with the effect and everything, the ripples on a pond. So if you think of knowledge being this ever-expanding ripple on a pond, the important thing to realize is that our ignorance,
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How can social media...
suggesting that the Declaration of Independence can't be important because erotic novels are also published on paper right there has there is not now and has never been any way to divide either media or people into two buckets one serious and one silly one entertainment and one political any medium that allows people to synchronize
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What makes a language......
Each has its own unique history and characteristic pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammatical structures. But the dividing line between varieties is murky. Human language, in all its cross-pollinating, ever-evolving glory, naturally resists the impulse to sort it into neat buckets.
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How to manage your time...
with a limited number of priority “buckets.” The system was less precise about what to do next but more than made up for it by spending more time making progress. So with your emails, insisting on always doing the very most important thing first could lead to a meltdown.
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SpaceX's Supersized...
And that’s important because telescopes -- size matters, right? The telescope is like a light-collecting bucket, and you want to collect as many photons as you possibly can to see objects that are faint and to see objects that are far away. Because the telescope --
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3 things I learned while...
I didn't have to talk to the flight attendant anymore. I could see in her eyes, it was terror. Life was over. Now I want to share with you three things I learned about myself that day. I learned that it all changes in an instant. We have this bucket list,
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The hilarious art of...
and threw a bucket of water at it. Presto! Then when we went to press, the printer put a spot gloss on the ink and it really looked like it was running. Not long after it came out, Augusten was waylaid in an airport and he was hiding out in the bookstore
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Drew Dudley: Everyday...
This girl knows what I'm talking about. "Then you looked at the guy next to me, smiled, reached into your bucket, pulled out a lollipop, held it out to him and said, 'You need to give a lollipop to the beautiful woman next to you.'"
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Rare Harpy Eagle Caught...
bucket loads of sweat each but finally we've got our view of the harpy eagle this is something I honestly never thought I'd ever get a chance to see the most powerful one of the largest birds in the whole world and also one of the
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Killer Cuckoo Catfish PIPE...
babies and gobble them up just scaring them off isn't the answer the cichlid has to create a safe haven for its young using its mouth as both shovel and bucket then it moves its
Video examples
Stuart Firestein: The...
is a model more like the magic well, where no matter how many buckets you take out, there's always another bucket of water to be had, or my particularly favorite one, with the effect and everything, the ripples on a pond. So if you think of knowledge being this ever-expanding ripple on a pond, the important thing to realize is that our ignorance,
Video examples
How can social media...
suggesting that the Declaration of Independence can't be important because erotic novels are also published on paper right there has there is not now and has never been any way to divide either media or people into two buckets one serious and one silly one entertainment and one political any medium that allows people to synchronize
Video examples
What makes a language......
Each has its own unique history and characteristic pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammatical structures. But the dividing line between varieties is murky. Human language, in all its cross-pollinating, ever-evolving glory, naturally resists the impulse to sort it into neat buckets.
Video examples
How to manage your time...
with a limited number of priority “buckets.” The system was less precise about what to do next but more than made up for it by spending more time making progress. So with your emails, insisting on always doing the very most important thing first could lead to a meltdown.
Video examples
SpaceX's Supersized...
And that’s important because telescopes -- size matters, right? The telescope is like a light-collecting bucket, and you want to collect as many photons as you possibly can to see objects that are faint and to see objects that are far away. Because the telescope --
Video examples
3 things I learned while...
I didn't have to talk to the flight attendant anymore. I could see in her eyes, it was terror. Life was over. Now I want to share with you three things I learned about myself that day. I learned that it all changes in an instant. We have this bucket list,
Video examples
The hilarious art of...
and threw a bucket of water at it. Presto! Then when we went to press, the printer put a spot gloss on the ink and it really looked like it was running. Not long after it came out, Augusten was waylaid in an airport and he was hiding out in the bookstore
Video examples
Drew Dudley: Everyday...
This girl knows what I'm talking about. "Then you looked at the guy next to me, smiled, reached into your bucket, pulled out a lollipop, held it out to him and said, 'You need to give a lollipop to the beautiful woman next to you.'"
Video examples
Rare Harpy Eagle Caught...
bucket loads of sweat each but finally we've got our view of the harpy eagle this is something I honestly never thought I'd ever get a chance to see the most powerful one of the largest birds in the whole world and also one of the
Video examples
Killer Cuckoo Catfish PIPE...
babies and gobble them up just scaring them off isn't the answer the cichlid has to create a safe haven for its young using its mouth as both shovel and bucket then it moves its
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DeRay Mckesson
American Activist
The police, at their best, do three things; they prevent crime, they respond to crime, and they solve crime. In all three of those buckets, they need the trust of the community to do it, so I believe that if we restore the trust that we will change the way police are experiencing communities and ways that will preserve life and make everyone safer.
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Tobias Wolff
American Writer
I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well, of the things they need to look at again, of the wells of material they have not even begun to dip their buckets into.
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Chris Pronger
Canadian Hockey Player
And as you really dig deep and start talking to families about their goals, dreams and bucket list trips, you really get to know someone, which allows us to mentor them... and they start feeling comfortable with you.
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Nigel Pearson
English Coach
I love the other side of life, I like to do what interests me. People talk about bucket lists - I hate that. You might as well call it the coffin list.
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Katie Kitamura
American Novelist
I pretty much admire anybody who has the discipline and the will to make a career out of fighting. It takes buckets of nerve.
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Marcus Smart
American Basketball Player
Our bigs do a lot for us guards to get us shots, to get us shots, to get us open buckets, that they deserve the praise.
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Michael Moore
American Activist
The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to work for them.
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Yahya Jammeh
Politician
When your neighbour's house is on fire, you should help with a bucket of water.
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Lou Reed
American Musician
I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.
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Karl-Anthony Towns
American Athlete
You got to earn your buckets and earn your respect.
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DeRay Mckesson
American Activist
The police, at their best, do three things; they prevent crime, they respond to crime, and they solve crime. In all three of those buckets, they need the trust of the community to do it, so I believe that if we restore the trust that we will change the way police are experiencing communities and ways that will preserve life and make everyone safer.
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Tobias Wolff
American Writer
I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well, of the things they need to look at again, of the wells of material they have not even begun to dip their buckets into.
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Chris Pronger
Canadian Hockey Player
And as you really dig deep and start talking to families about their goals, dreams and bucket list trips, you really get to know someone, which allows us to mentor them... and they start feeling comfortable with you.
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Nigel Pearson
English Coach
I love the other side of life, I like to do what interests me. People talk about bucket lists - I hate that. You might as well call it the coffin list.
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Katie Kitamura
American Novelist
I pretty much admire anybody who has the discipline and the will to make a career out of fighting. It takes buckets of nerve.
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Marcus Smart
American Basketball Player
Our bigs do a lot for us guards to get us shots, to get us shots, to get us open buckets, that they deserve the praise.
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Michael Moore
American Activist
The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to work for them.
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Yahya Jammeh
Politician
When your neighbour's house is on fire, you should help with a bucket of water.
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Lou Reed
American Musician
I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.
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Karl-Anthony Towns
American Athlete
You got to earn your buckets and earn your respect.
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