bucket

¹buck·et

noun \ˈbə-kət\

Definition of BUCKET

1

: a typically cylindrical vessel for catching, holding, or carrying liquids or solids

2

: something resembling a bucket: as

a : the scoop of an excavating machine

b : one of the receptacles on the rim of a waterwheel

c : one of the cups of an endless-belt conveyor

d : one of the vanes of a turbine rotor

3

: bucketful

4

: bucket seat

5

: basket 3b

Examples of BUCKET

1. We used two buckets of paint to paint the living room.
2. <made buckets of money in the stock market>

Origin of BUCKET

Middle English, from Anglo-French buket, from Old English būc pitcher, belly; akin to Old High German būh belly

First Known Use: 13th century

Related to BUCKET

Synonyms

abundance, barrel, basketful, boatload, lot, bunch, bundle, bushel, carload, chunk, deal, dozen, fistful, gobs, good deal, heap, hundred, lashings (also lashins) [chiefly British], loads, mass, mess, mountain, much, multiplicity, myriad, oodles, pack, passel, peck, pile, plateful, plenitude, plentitude, plenty, pot, potful, profusion, quantity, raft, reams, scads, sheaf, shipload, sight, slew, spate, stack, store, ton, truckload, volume, wad, wealth, yard

Antonyms

ace, bit, dab, dram, driblet, glimmer, handful, hint, lick, little, mite, mouthful, nip, ounce, peanuts, pinch, pittance, scruple, shade, shadow, smidgen (also smidgeon or smidgin or smidge), speck, spot, sprinkle, sprinkling, strain, streak, suspicion, tad, taste, touch, trace

Related Words

epidemic, plague, rash; bonanza, embarrassment, excess, overabundance, overage, overkill, overmuch, oversupply, plethora, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplus; deluge, flood, overflow; army, bevy, cram, crowd, crush, drove, flock, herd, horde, host, legion, mob, multitude, press, score, sea, swarm, throng; gazillion, jillion, kazillion, million, thousands, trillion, zillion

Near Antonyms

atom, crumb, dot, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, grain, granule, iota, jot, modicum, molecule, mote, nubbin, particle, ray, scintilla, scrap, shred, tittle, whit; smatter, smattering; dash, drop, morsel, shot; piece, portion, section; absence, dearth, famine, lack, paucity, poverty, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, undersupply, want; deficiency, deficit, inadequacy, insufficiency, meagerness, scantiness, scantness, skimpiness

Other Civil Engineering Terms

asphalt, ballast, barrage, cantilever, infrastructure, sluice

Rhymes with BUCKET

ducat, tucket

²bucket

verb

Definition of BUCKET

transitive verb

1

: to draw or lift in buckets

2

British

a : to ride (a horse) hard

b : to drive hurriedly or roughly

3

: to deal with in a bucket shop

intransitive verb

1

: hustle, hurry

2

a : to move about haphazardly or irresponsibly

b : to move roughly or jerkily

Examples of BUCKET

1. <bucketing water from the well, we raced to put out the fire>
2. <getting the troops into the bucketing landing craft proved to be challenging>

First Known Use of BUCKET

1621

Related to BUCKET

Synonyms

dip, lade, ladle, scoop, spoon

Related Words

bail; deplete, drain, eliminate, empty, exhaust; bleed, draw (off); dish; slop; decant, draw, pump, siphon (also syphon), suction

Near Antonyms

pour; fill