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 *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. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: bûk'ĭt, IPA(key): /ˈbʌk.ɪt/ (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /ˈbʌk.ət/ (Indic) IPA(key): /bə.(k.)ˈkɛʈ/ Hyphenation: buck‧et Rhymes: -ʌkɪt, (Indic) -ɛt === Noun === bucket (plural buckets) A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items. Synonym: pail The amount held in this container. (informal, chiefly in the plural) A large amount of liquid. (informal, chiefly in the plural) A great deal of anything. (UK, archaic) A unit of measure equal to four gallons. Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container). Synonyms: scoop, vane, blade (MTE, slang, derogatory) Someone who habitually uses crack cocaine. (Can we add an example for this sense?) (slang) An old vehicle that is not in good working order. Synonyms: banger, beater, hooptie, jalopy, wreck, crock, shitbox, rustbucket; see also Thesaurus:old car (basketball, informal) The basket. (basketball, informal) A field goal. (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. (aviation, mechanical engineering, uncommon) A turbine blade driven by hot gas or steam. A bucket bag. The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted. The pitcher in certain orchids. (slang, humorous) A helmet. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Farefare: bɔgtɛ → Japanese: バケツ (baketsu) → Māori: pākete ==== 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. (intransitive, informal) To rain heavily. (intransitive, informal) To travel very quickly. (transitive) To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly. (transitive, Australia, slang) To criticize vehemently; to denigrate. (computing, transitive) To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items. (transitive, UK, US, rowing) To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body. ==== Synonyms ==== (rain heavily): bucket down, chuck it down, piss down, rain cats and dogs (travel very quickly): hurtle, rocket, shoot, speed, whizz, book it ==== Derived terms ==== bucket about ==== Translations ==== === References === “bucket”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. === Further reading === Category:buckets on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons “bucket”, in Collins English Dictionary. “bucket”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. “bucket”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. “bucket”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present. bucket on Wikipedia.Wikipedia == Scots == === Etymology === As English bucket. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈbʌkɪt/ === Noun === bucket (plural buckets) rubbish bin === References === “bucket, n..”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.