| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | buck·et |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  b k  t |
| NOUN: | 1a. A cylindrical vessel used for holding or carrying liquids or solids; a pail. b. 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). See table at measurement. 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. | | VERB: | Inflected forms: buck·et·ed, buck·et·ing, buck·ets
| | TRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To hold, carry, or put in a bucket: bucket up water from a well. 2. To ride (a horse) long and hard. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To move or proceed rapidly and jerkily: bucketing over the unpaved lane. 2. To make haste; hustle. | | IDIOM: | a drop in the bucket An insufficient or inconsequential amount in comparison with what is required. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Old French buket, of Germanic origin.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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