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    buck·et
    [ˈbəkət]
    noun
    bucket (noun) · buckets (plural noun)
    1. a roughly cylindrical open container, typically made of metal or plastic, with a handle, used to hold and carry liquids or other material:
      "a bucket and spade" · "an ice bucket"
      • the contents of a bucket or the amount it can contain:
        "she emptied a bucket of water over them"
      • informal
        (buckets)
        large quantities of liquid, typically rain or tears:
        "I wept buckets"
      • basketball
        informal
        a basket.
      • a compartment on the outer edge of a waterwheel:
        "the Laxey wheel had 168 buckets, each holding 24 gallons"
      • the scoop of a dredger or grain elevator:
        "as the chain turns the buckets bite into the canal bed and scoop out the mud"
      • a scoop attached to the front of a loader, digger, or tractor.
    2. computing
      a unit of data that can be transferred from secondary storage in a single operation.
    verb
    bucket (verb) · buckets (third person present) · bucketed (past tense) · bucketed (past participle) · bucketing (present participle)
    1. BRITISH ENGLISH
      informal
      (it bucketsit is bucketing)
      rain heavily:
      "it was still bucketing down"
    2. informal
      (of a vehicle) move quickly and jerkily:
      "the car came bucketing out of a side road"
    Origin
    Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French buquet ‘tub, pail’, perhaps from Old English būc ‘belly, pitcher’.
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    What is a bucket used for?
    [countable] a large container that is part of a crane or digger and is used for lifting things by the bucket/bucketful They used to drink tea by the bucketful (= in large quantities). To succeed in show business, you need buckets of confidence. We wept buckets. He was sweating buckets by the end of the race.

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    What is the meaning of bucket?
    The definition of a bucket is a round and deep container used for carrying things. An example of a bucket is what you'd use to carry water from a faucet to a kiddie pool. To ride (a horse) long and hard.

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    What is a bucket of water?
    A bucket is a round metal or plastic container with a handle attached to its sides. Buckets are often used for holding and carrying water. We drew water in a bucket from the well outside the door. The girls happily played in the sand and sea with buckets and spades. A bucketof water is the amount of water contained in a bucket.

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    What is an example of a bucket?
    The definition of a bucket is a round and deep container used for carrying things. An example of a bucket is what you'd use to carry water from a faucet to a kiddie pool. To ride (a horse) long and hard. To make haste; hustle.

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    What does bucketful mean?
    the amount held by a bucket also buck′et·ful· noun. pl. -·fuls·. a thing like a bucket, as a scoop on a power shovel, any of the cups on a water wheel, or any of the curved vanes in the rotor of a turbine.

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    How do you describe a bucket in a sentence?
    by the bucket/bucketful They used to drink tea by the bucketful (= in large quantities). To succeed in show business, you need buckets of confidence. We wept buckets. He was sweating buckets by the end of the race. The rain was coming down in buckets (= it was raining very heavily).

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