bucket

/'bʌkit/

Thân thiện

A child fills a bucket with sand at the beach.

Definition

1. Noun:

   • A roughly cylindrical open container with a handle: A vessel, typically made of metal or plastic, used for carrying liquids or other materials.
   • The quantity held by such a container: The amount of something a bucket can contain.
   • (In machinery) A scoop or compartment: A part of a machine, such as a water wheel or excavator, shaped like a container to hold or move material.

2. Verb:

   • To carry or move in a bucket: To transport something using a bucket.
   • To put or pour into a bucket: To place something inside a bucket.
   • (Informal) To move or travel quickly and often recklessly: To move at high speed, especially in a vehicle.

Usage Examples

• Noun:

  • She filled the bucket with water from the well.
  • We harvested a bucket of apples from the tree.
  • The old mill's water wheel had wooden buckets to catch the flowing water.

• Verb:

  • He had to bucket water from the flooded basement.
  • After picking the berries, she bucketed them for washing.
  • The car bucketed down the muddy track, splashing through puddles.

Advanced Usage

• "A drop in the bucket": A very small or insignificant amount compared to what is needed.

  • The donation was generous, but it's just a drop in the bucket for the charity's needs.

• "To cry a bucket": To cry a great deal.

  • She cried a bucket when her pet ran away.

• "Bucket list": A list of experiences or achievements one hopes to have or accomplish during one's lifetime.

  • Seeing the Northern Lights is at the top of my bucket list.

Variants and Related Words

• Bucketful (n): The amount that fills a bucket.

  • He poured a bucketful of sand into the hole.

• Bucketing (v, gerund): The act of carrying in or moving like a bucket; also used to describe heavy rain.

  • It's bucketing down outside, so take an umbrella.

Synonyms

• Noun: Pail, scuttle, can, vessel.
• Verb: Scoop, bail, pour, dash, rush.

Related Phrasal Verbs

• Bucket down (phrasal verb): To rain very heavily.

  • Take shelter; it's starting to bucket down.

• Bucket out (phrasal verb): To remove water or other contents from something by using a bucket.

  • We had to bucket out the rainwater that had leaked into the boat.

Related Idioms

• "Kick the bucket" (idiom, informal): To die.

  • The old saying "kick the bucket" is a humorous euphemism for death.

• "Like buckets in a well": Describing an alternating or reciprocating motion.

  • The two pistons moved up and down like buckets in a well.

Học thuật

Noun

1. the quantity contained in a bucket
2. a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top

Verb

1. carry in a bucket
2. put into a bucket

Từ đồng nghĩa

• bucketful
• pail