Dictionary Definition
bucket
Noun
1 a roughly cylindrical that is vessel open at
the top [syn: pail]
2 the quantity contained in a bucket [syn:
bucketful]
Verb
1 put into a bucket
2 carry in a bucket
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- , /ˈbʌkɪt/, /'bVkIt/
- Rhymes with: -ʌkɪt
Noun
- 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.
- Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket.
- An old car 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.
- In the context of "variation management": A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
Synonyms
- italbrac container: pail
- italbrac piece of machinery: scoop, vane, blade
- italbrac old car: banger, jalopy, rustbucket
Related terms
Translations
container
- Arabic: (dalw) ,
- trreq Armenian
- Breton: sailh , -où p
- trreq Burmese
- Catalan: cubell , galleda
- Chinese: 水桶 (shuǐ tǒng), 吊桶 (diào tǒng)
- Croatian: kabao
- Czech: kýbl
- Dutch: emmer
- Esperanto: sitelo
- Estonian: ämber, pang
- Finnish: ämpäri, sanko
- French: seau
- Georgian: ვედრო (vedro)
- German: Eimer
- Greek: κουβάς (kuvas)
- Hebrew: דלי (dli)
- Hungarian: vödör, veder
- Interlingua: situla
- Italian: secchio
- Japanese: バケツ
- Khmer: (tung)
- Korean: 버킷 (beokit)
- Lao: (khu')
- Latin: situla, hama
- Latvian: spainis
- trreq Maltese
- Northern Sami: gieđbmi, gievdni
- Polish: wiadro
- Portuguese: balde
- trreq Romanian
- Russian: ведро
- Slovak: vedro
- Slovene: vedro
- Spanish: balde , cubeta , cubo , pozal , tobo italbrac Venezuela
- Swahili: ndoo
- Swedish: hink, spann ämbar
- Telugu: బక్కెటు, బక్కెట్టు, బొక్కెన
- Thai: (tăng), (bpéep)
- Turkish: kova
- trreq Vietnamese
- Volapük: böket
- West Frisian: amer
amount held in this container
part of piece of machinery
- Finnish: kauha, siipi
- German: Schaufel
old car
- Dutch: rammelkar
- Finnish: kottero
- Greek: σακαράκα
- Russian: ведро
basketball: basket
- See basket.
Verb
Synonyms
- sense rain heavily chuck it down, piss down, rain cats and dogs
- sense travel very quickly hurtle, rocket, shoot, speed, whizz
Translations
rain heavily
- Dutch: plenzen
- Finnish: sataa kaatamalla
- French: pleuvoir à verse
- Korean: 퍼붓다 (peobusda, -butda)
travel very quickly
- Dutch: vlammen
- German: durchrütteln
References
Extensive Definition
A bucket, also called a pail, is a watertight,
vertical cylinder or
truncated
cone,
with an open top and a flat bottom, usually attached to a
semicircular carrying handle
called the bail. Buckets have been used since very ancient times,
mainly for transporting water from a fountain or well into
permanent reservoirs
such as water holes and barrels. Buckets are also used to carry
paint, sand and foodstuffs. There was once a rhyme written about a
bucket, It consisted of key elements involving Jack and Jill, They
had a pail. Buckets can also be used on farms, to give feed to
animals such as horses or cows, or to collect things such as apples
or pears.
The United States
Consumer Product Safety Commission warns that infants and
toddlers can drown in 5-gallon buckets.http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/pubs/5006.pdf
bucket in Catalan: Galleda
bucket in Czech: Vědro
bucket in Pennsylvania German: Eemer
bucket in German: Eimer (Behälter)
bucket in Spanish: Cubo (recipiente)
bucket in Esperanto: Sitelo
bucket in French: Seau
bucket in Scottish Gaelic: Peile
bucket in Hindi: बाल्टी
bucket in Indonesian: Ember
bucket in Italian: Secchio
bucket in Luxembourgish: Eemer
bucket in Dutch: Emmer
bucket in Japanese: バケツ
bucket in Norwegian: Bøtte
bucket in Polish: Wiadro
bucket in Portuguese: Balde
bucket in Romanian: Găleată
bucket in Russian: Ведро (ёмкость)
bucket in Simple English: Bucket
bucket in Finnish: Ämpäri
bucket in Swedish: Hink
bucket in Tajik: Сатил
bucket in Võro: Pang
bucket in Vlaams: Seule
bucket in Samogitian: Viedras
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
argosy,
bail, bark, barrel, be caught short, be
short, belong, boat, bottom, bucketshop, calaboose, can, clink, cooler, craft, cup, decant, deposit margin, dip, dish, dish out, dish up, fly, fork, go long, hasten, highball, hold on, hooker, hoosegow, hulk, hull, hustle, jug, keel, ladle, leviathan, lockup, make a killing, make a
scoop, margin up, miss the market, operate, overstay the market,
packet, pail, play the market, plunge, pokey, pour, prison, pyramid, run, rush, scalp, scoop, scoop the market, scuttle, ship, shovel, spade, speculate, speed, spoon, stag, stag the market, take a
flier, trade on margin, tub,
venture, vessel, watercraft, whiz