Pail vs. Bucket

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  • Pail

    A bucket is typically a watertight, vertical cylinder or truncated cone or square, with an open top and a flat bottom, attached to a semicircular carrying handle called the bail.A bucket is usually an open-top container. In contrast, a pail can have a top or lid and is a shipping container. In common usage, the two terms are often used interchangeably.

  • Bucket

    A bucket is typically a watertight, vertical cylinder or truncated cone or square, with an open top and a flat bottom, attached to a semicircular carrying handle called the bail.A bucket is usually an open-top container. In contrast, a pail can have a top or lid and is a shipping container. In common usage, the two terms are often used interchangeably.

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  • Pail (noun)

    A vessel of wood, tin, plastic, etc., usually cylindrical and having a handle — used especially for carrying liquids, for example water or milk; a bucket (sometimes with a cover).

    “The milkmaid carried a pail of milk in each hand.”

  • Pail (noun)

    (In technical use) A closed (covered) cylindrical shipping container.

  • Bucket (noun)

    A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.

    “I need a bucket to carry the water from the well.”

  • Bucket (noun)

    The amount held in this container.

    “The horse drank a whole bucket of water.”

  • Bucket (noun)

    A unit of measure equal to four gallons.

  • Bucket (noun)

    Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).

  • Bucket (noun)

    An old vehicle that is not in good working order.

  • Bucket (noun)

    The basket.

    “The forward drove to the bucket.”

  • Bucket (noun)

    A field goal.

    “We can’t keep giving up easy buckets.”

  • Bucket (noun)

    A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.

  • Bucket (noun)

    A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.

  • Bucket (noun)

    A large amount of liquid.

    “It rained buckets yesterday.”

    “I was so nervous that I sweated buckets.”

  • Bucket (noun)

    A bucket bag.

  • Bucket (noun)

    The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted.

  • Bucket (noun)

    The pitcher in certain orchids.

  • Bucket (verb)

    To place inside a bucket.

  • Bucket (verb)

    To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.

    “to bucket water”

  • Bucket (verb)

    To rain heavily.

  • Bucket (verb)

    To travel very quickly.

  • Bucket (verb)

    To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.

  • Bucket (verb)

    To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.

  • Bucket (verb)

    To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.

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