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.
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.