Translate bucket | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of bucket
noun
1a roughly cylindrical open container, typically made of metal or plastic, with a handle, used to hold and carry liquids or other material. the contents of a bucket or the amount it can contain:she emptied a bucket of water over them (
buckets)
informal 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 scoop of a dredger or grain elevator. 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 (buckets, bucketed, bucketing)
[no object] 1 (
it buckets,
it is bucketing, etc.)
informal rain heavily:it was still bucketing down
2 [with adverbial of direction] (of a vehicle) move quickly and jerkily:the car came bucketing out of a side road
Derivatives
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noun (plural bucketfuls)
