bucket

n.

1. 1. A cylindrical vessel used for holding or carrying liquids or solids; a pail.
   2. The amount that a bucket can hold: One bucket of paint will be enough for the ceiling.
2. A unit of dry measure in the U.S. Customary System equal to 2 pecks (17.6 liters).
3. A receptacle on various machines, such as the scoop of a power shovel or the compartments on a water wheel, used to gather and convey material.
4. Basketball. A basket.

v., -et·ed, -et·ing, -ets.

v.tr.

1. To hold, carry, or put in a bucket: bucket up water from a well.
2. To ride (a horse) long and hard.

v.intr.

1. To move or proceed rapidly and jerkily: bucketing over the unpaved lane.
2. To make haste; hustle.

idiom:

a drop in the bucket

1. An insufficient or inconsequential amount in comparison with what is required.

[Middle English, from Old French buket, of Germanic origin.]

A reserved amount of memory that holds a single item or multiple items of data. Bucket is somewhat synonymous to "buffer," although buffers are usually memory locations for incoming data records, while buckets tend to be smaller holding areas for calculations. See hash table, buffer and variable.

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verb

To move swiftly: bolt, bustle, dart, dash, festinate, flash, fleet, flit, fly, haste, hasten, hurry, hustle, pelt, race, rocket, run, rush, sail, scoot, scour, shoot, speed, sprint, tear, trot, whirl, whisk, whiz, wing, zip, zoom. Informal hotfoot, rip. Slang barrel, highball. Chiefly British nip. Idioms: get a move on, get cracking, go like lightning, go like the wind, hotfoot it, make haste, make time, make tracks, run like the wind, shake a leg, stepjumpon it. See move/halt.

According to N&Q (5s:6 (1876), 24), it was the custom for the mother of a newly christened baby in 19th-century Cumberland to give a tea to her neighbours. When they were ready to leave, a bucket was placed in the doorway which all the women had to jump over. If they stumbled or tripped it was taken as a sign that they were pregnant. Over 50 years later, but referring to the ‘old days’, another reference to Cumberland (Folk-Lore 40 (1929), 279) describes a similar situation but with the different detail that the bucket held a lighted candle, and if the draught of a woman's skirts put the candle out ‘it was taken as an omen she would be the next to require the midwife’. Another variant was for a besom to be placed across two buckets, and jumped over. The link between pregnancy and the domestic bucket is confirmed by a comment from a young Yorkshire woman reported in Opie and Tatem—‘Jump over a bucket to bring on labour’.

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• Opie and Tatem, 1989: 46

An attachment for a materials-handling or excavating machine that digs or carries loose materials such as earth, gravel, stone, or concrete; may be shaped like a scoop, with provision for opening and closing for convenience in unloading.

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From later Bronze Age times through to the early medieval period, metal buckets of various kinds were important accoutrements and probably status objects throughout Europe. The earliest examples are of situla shape, made of sheet bronze, and date to the 8th century bc, imitating vessels found in the Mediterranean world still earlier. The association of buckets and also sheet-metal cauldrons with flesh-hooks suggests that they had a central role in feasting ceremonies where the chief would apportion particular cuts of meat from the communal cooking vessel according to rank, status, or privilege. Wooden buckets with elaborate ornamental metal fittings are known through Iron Age times and outside the Roman world in northern Europe through the early 1st millennium AD. They reappear again very visibly over much of northwest Europe in the mid 1st millennium ad when examples are deposited in pagan Saxons graves.

To convert from buckets (Brit. dry) to:

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IN BRIEF: A cylindrical container for scooping up or holding liquids or solids.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes. — Carl Sandburg 

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - spand, spandfuld
v. tr. - øse, hente
v. intr. - bumpe, rasle

idioms:

• bucket down    øse ned, vælte ned
• bucket seat    bucket seat
• bucket shop    outsidervekselerers kontor

Nederlands (Dutch)
emmer, grijper, schoep, (mv) zeeën (figuurlijk), plenzen, zigzaggen

Français (French)
n. - seau, (Tech) godet, piston, auget (d'une roue)
v. tr. - pleuvoir à seaux
v. intr. - cahoter

idioms:

• bucket down    pleuvoir à seaux, cahoter
• bucket seat    siège-baquet
• bucket shop    (Fin) bureau ou maison de contrepartie, organisme de vente de billets d'avion à prix réduits

Deutsch (German)
n. - Eimer, (tech.) Schaufelkammer
v. - in Strömen gießen, holpern

idioms:

• bucket down    in Strömen gießen
• bucket seat    Schalensitz
• bucket shop    (ugs.) (nicht ganz seriöses) Maklerbüro, (ugs.) Reisebüro für Billigflüge

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - κάδος, κουβάς
v. - αντλώ/μεταφέρω με κάδο, οδηγώ αυτοκίνητο με λαγουδάκια (σκιρτήματα)

idioms:

• bucket down    (για βροχή) πέφτω με τη σέσουλα
• bucket seat    βαθύ κάθισμα οδηγού αυτοκινήτου ή πιλότου
• bucket shop    (ΗΠΑ) παραχρηματιστηριακό γραφείο, ταξιδιωτικό γραφείο που προμηθεύει φτηνά αεροπορικά εισιτήρια

Italiano (Italian)
piovere a catinelle, secchio

idioms:

• bucket down    piovere a catinelle
• bucket seat    sedile ribaltabile
• bucket shop    agenzia di borsa illegale
• kick the bucket    tirare le cuoia

Português (Portuguese)
n. - balde (m)
v. - mover-se irregularmente

idioms:

• bucket down    chover muito
• bucket seat    poltrona (f) de avião
• bucket shop    lugar (f) que vende passagens aéreas a preços reduzidos
• kick the bucket    morrer (gír.)

Русский (Russian)
скакать, литься, ведро, черпак, колымага, корыто

idioms:

• bucket down    литься как из ведра
• bucket seat    чашеобразное сиденье
• bucket shop    туристическое агентство
• kick the bucket    умереть

Español (Spanish)
n. - cubo, balde
v. tr. - diluviar
v. intr. - llover a cántaros, llover a baldes

idioms:

• bucket down    llover a cántaros
• bucket seat    asiento de coche deportivo
• bucket shop    agencia de viajes que vende billetes de avión a bajo precio

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - puts, hink, hisskopa, pumpkolv
v. - ösa ner

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
桶子, 屁股, 铲头, 用桶提, 驾驶, 催拼命跑, 利用买空卖空, 下倾盆大雨, 乱跑, 急速行进, 驾车飞驶

idioms:

• bucket down    倾盆大雨
• bucket seat    飞机或汽车上之凹背摺椅
• bucket shop    投机商号

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 桶子, 屁股, 鏟頭
v. tr. - 用桶提, 駕駛, 催拼命跑, 利用買空賣空
v. intr. - 下傾盆大雨, 亂跑, 急速行進, 駕車飛駛

idioms:

• bucket down    傾盆大雨
• bucket seat    飛機或汽車上之凹背摺椅
• bucket shop    投機商號

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 물통
v. tr. - ~을 통으로 푸다, ~을 난폭하게 몰다
v. intr. - 난폭하게 달리다, 서두르다

idioms:

• bucket down    비가 마구 퍼붓다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - バケツ, 手桶, 大量
v. - バケツで汲む, 土砂降りに降る, 乱暴に飛ばす, 急ピッチでこぐ, バケツでくむ

idioms:

• bucket down    激しく降る
• bucket seat    バケットシート
• bucket shop    もぐり仲買店, から相場店, 酒場

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) سطل أو دلو (فعل) يحمل بالدلو, يركب (حصان) بقوة‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮דלי, כמויות גדולות של נוזלים, תא ליד גלגל-מים, מעלית-גרעינים‬
v. tr. - ‮נסע בטלטולים‬
v. intr. - ‮נסע בטלטולים, רכב במהירות, ירד בשפע (גשם)‬

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