bucket
水桶,桶,桶状物,桶子
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- : a deep, cylindrical vessel, usually of metal, plastic, or wood, with a flat bottom and a semicircular bail, for collecting, carrying, or holding water, sand, fruit, etc.; pail.
- : anything resembling or suggesting this.
- : Machinery. any of the scoops attached to or forming the endless chain in certain types of conveyors or elevators.the scoop or clamshell of a steam shovel, power shovel, or dredge.a vane or blade of a waterwheel, paddle wheel, water turbine, or the like.
- : a concave surface at the foot of a spillway for deflecting the downward flow of water.
- : a bucketful: a bucket of sand.
- : Basketball. Informal.field goal. the part of the keyhole extending from the foul line to the end line.
- : bucket seat.
- : Bowling. a leave of the two, four, five, and eight pins, or the three, five, six, and nine pins.
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buck·et·ed, buck·et·ing.
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Examples
While McInnes’ chopper carries its water in a bucket, that’s not the only way to do it.
Kobe and Shaq butted heads, did their own things, got buckets and won three rings.
These are in the low-touch, high-growth bucket which is a good thing for us.
A centrifuge simulates gravity through centrifugal force — the effect that keeps water in the bottom of a bucket when you swing it over your head.
Another problem in this third bucket — it’s a big bucket — is when the person who designed the intervention and masterminded the initial trial can no longer be so involved once the program scales up to multiple locations.
An 18-year-old Swedish rapper/Internet meme has inspired legions of impressionable teens to get based in bucket hats.
Early one morning I was passing out hot water, when a man showed me a bucket of blood from his slashed wrists and asked for help.
Her solution: a bucket list of influential people and places to visit and photograph.
Somehow, their message has gone from lunch-bucket concerns to a date with Girls.
It was on a hike to the Grand Canyon at age 18 that Shattuck penned her first bucket list.
A fellow was dropt down in the bucket, and soon bawled out from the bottom, "I have found the punch-ladle, so wind me up."