BUCKET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bucket mean? 

• BUCKET (noun)
  The noun BUCKET has 2 senses:

1. a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top

2. the quantity contained in a bucket

  Familiarity information: BUCKET used as a noun is rare.

• BUCKET (verb)
  The verb BUCKET has 2 senses:

1. put into a bucket

2. carry in a bucket

  Familiarity information: BUCKET used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUCKET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bucket; pail

Hypernyms ("bucket" is a kind of...):

vessel (an object used as a container (especially for liquids))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bucket"):

cannikin (a wooden bucket)

dinner bucket; dinner pail (a pail in which a workman carries his lunch or dinner)

dredging bucket (a bucket for lifting material from a channel or riverbed)

kibble (an iron bucket used for hoisting in wells or mining)

slop jar; slop pail (a large pail used to receive waste water from a washbasin or chamber pot)

wine bucket; wine cooler (a bucket of ice used to chill a bottle of wine)

Holonyms ("bucket" is a part of...):

water wheel; waterwheel (a wheel that rotates by direct action of water; a simple turbine)

Derivation:

bucket (carry in a bucket)

bucket (put into a bucket)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quantity contained in a bucket

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

bucket; bucketful

Hypernyms ("bucket" is a kind of...):

containerful (the quantity that a container will hold)

Derivation:

bucket (carry in a bucket)

• BUCKET (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they bucket    ... he / she / it buckets   
Past simple: bucketed   
Past participle: bucketed   
-ing form: bucketing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put into a bucket

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "bucket" is one way to...):

lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

bucket (a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Carry in a bucket

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "bucket" is one way to...):

carry; transport (move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

bucket (a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top)

bucket (the quantity contained in a bucket)

 Context examples 

These buckets were about the size of large thimbles, and the poor people supplied me with them as fast as they could: but the flame was so violent that they did little good.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The harder you work, the more money you will make—and this year, the money will come to you in buckets.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Would you kindly send one of your constables for two buckets of water?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There were three minnows in the pool, which was too large to drain; and after several ineffectual attempts to catch them in the tin bucket he forbore.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

This made Dorothy so very angry that she picked up the bucket of water that stood near and dashed it over the Witch, wetting her from head to foot.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

They were at it again, and I was jumping about upon my bucket in my excitement.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If you touch them or things they have touched, like fencing or buckets, wash your hands thoroughly.

(Animal Diseases and Your Health, NIH)

Even protoplanets like Ceres may explain how water is stored in rocky "buckets" that transport water across the solar system.

(Possible Subsurface Lake near Martian South Pole, NASA)

“And tell Johnson to douse him with a few buckets of salt water,” he added, in a lower tone for my ear alone.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

After a flight of stairs, it gives me as much trouble to draw every breath I want, as if it was a bucket of water.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)