1
: a typically cylindrical vessel for catching, holding, or carrying liquids or solids
2
: something resembling a bucket: such as
a
: the scoop of an excavating machine
b
: one of the receptacles on the rim of a waterwheel
c
: one of the cups of an endless-belt conveyor
d
: one of the vanes of a turbine rotor
3
4
5
bucketed; bucketing; buckets
1
: to draw or lift in buckets
2
British
a
: to ride (a horse) hard
b
: to drive hurriedly or roughly
3
: to deal with in a bucket shop
2
a
: to move about haphazardly or irresponsibly
b
: to move roughly or jerkily
3
chiefly British, informal
: to rain very heavily : pour
It doesn't just rain here. It pours; it lashes; it buckets.—
Kathleen A. Quinn
—usually used with downKathleen A. QuinnRain bucketed down for the next two days …—Thurston Clarke
Thurston ClarkeSynonyms
Noun
- abundance
- barrel
- basketful
- boatload
- bunch
- bundle
- bushel
- carload
- chunk
- deal
- dozen
- fistful
- gobs
- good deal
- heap
- hundred
- lashings [chiefly British]
- lashins
- loads
- lot
- mass
- mess
- mountain
- much
- multiplicity
- myriad
- oodles
- pack
- passel
- peck
- pile
- plateful
- plenitude
- plentitude
- plenty
- pot
- potful
- profusion
- quantity
- raft
- reams
- scads
- sheaf
- shipload
- sight
- slew
- spate
- stack
- store
- ton
- truckload
- volume
- wad
- wealth
- yard
Verb
Examples of bucket in a Sentence
Noun
We used two buckets of paint to paint the living room.
made buckets of money in the stock market
Verb
bucketing water from the well, we raced to put out the fire
getting the troops into the bucketing landing craft proved to be challenging
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Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
In her bucket of fries is a scroll telling her that a hidden immunity idol is sewn into the corner of the tarp in the middle of the camp.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 30 Oct. 2024
Samsung has a sizing guide consistent with other fitness tracker rings as I was bucketed into my usual size 8.
—Adrienne So, WIRED, 18 Aug. 2024
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Noun
One balanced chunks of concrete in its metal bucket, and a reporter remarked that encampment residents had surely not been the ones to pour that cement.
—Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
In her bucket of fries is a scroll telling her that a hidden immunity idol is sewn into the corner of the tarp in the middle of the camp.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
Verb
This is on vivid display in the chart below, which takes all the simulations from our model and buckets them by popular vote outcome.
—G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 30 Oct. 2024
Samsung has a sizing guide consistent with other fitness tracker rings as I was bucketed into my usual size 8.
—Adrienne So, WIRED, 18 Aug. 2024
See all Example Sentences for bucket
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“Bucket.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bucket. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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