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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.
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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.”
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Pail (noun)
(In technical use) A closed (covered) cylindrical shipping container.
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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.”
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Bucket (noun)
The amount held in this container.
“The horse drank a whole bucket of water.”
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Bucket (noun)
A unit of measure equal to four gallons.
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Bucket (noun)
Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
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Bucket (noun)
An old vehicle that is not in good working order.
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Bucket (noun)
The basket.
“The forward drove to the bucket.”
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Bucket (noun)
A field goal.
“We can’t keep giving up easy buckets.”
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Bucket (noun)
A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
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Bucket (noun)
A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
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Bucket (noun)
A large amount of liquid.
“It rained buckets yesterday.”
“I was so nervous that I sweated buckets.”
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Bucket (noun)
A bucket bag.
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Bucket (noun)
The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted.
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Bucket (noun)
The pitcher in certain orchids.
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Bucket (verb)
To place inside a bucket.
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Bucket (verb)
To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.
“to bucket water”
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Bucket (verb)
To rain heavily.
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Bucket (verb)
To travel very quickly.
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Bucket (verb)
To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.
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Bucket (verb)
To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
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Bucket (verb)
To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.