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bucket

The English word “bucket” has 24 meanings listed here.

  1. A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
  2. The amount held in this container.
  3. A large amount of liquid.
  4. A great deal of anything.
  5. A unit of measure equal to four gallons.
  6. Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
  7. An old vehicle that is not in good working order.
  8. The basket.
  9. A field goal.
  10. A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
  11. A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
  12. A turbine blade driven by hot gas or steam.
  13. A bucket bag.
  14. The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted.
  15. The pitcher in certain orchids.
  16. A helmet.
  17. To place inside a bucket.
  18. To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.
  19. To rain heavily.
  20. To travel very quickly.
  21. To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
  22. To criticize vehemently; to denigrate.
  23. To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.
  24. To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.
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