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BUCKET

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top

Synonyms:

bucket; pail

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("bucket" is a kind of...):

vessel (an object used as a container (especially for liquids))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bucket"):

cannikin (a wooden bucket)

dinner bucket; dinner pail (a pail in which a workman carries his lunch or dinner)

dredging bucket (a bucket for lifting material from a channel or riverbed)

kibble (an iron bucket used for hoisting in wells or mining)

slop jar; slop pail (a large pail used to receive waste water from a washbasin or chamber pot)

wine bucket; wine cooler (a bucket of ice used to chill a bottle of wine)

Holonyms ("bucket" is a part of...):

water wheel; waterwheel (a wheel that rotates by direct action of water; a simple turbine)

Derivation:

bucket (carry in a bucket)

bucket (put into a bucket)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quantity contained in a bucket

Synonyms:

bucket; bucketful

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("bucket" is a kind of...):

containerful (the quantity that a container will hold)

Derivation:

bucket (carry in a bucket)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Carry in a bucket

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "bucket" is one way to...):

carry; transport (move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

bucket (a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top)

bucket (the quantity contained in a bucket)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Put into a bucket

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "bucket" is one way to...):

lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

bucket (a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top)

Credits

 Context examples: 

A chanting cherub adorned the cover of the sugar bucket, and attempts to portray Romeo and Juliet supplied kindling for some time.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

When the huntsman saw that, he went back and fetched three men to come with buckets and bale out the water.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The new study not only suggests that underground water ice lies under a thin covering over wide areas, it also identifies eight sites where ice is directly accessible, at latitudes with less hostile conditions than at Mars' polar ice caps. Astronauts could essentially just go there with a bucket and a shovel and get all the water they need.

(Steep Slopes on Mars Reveal Structure of Buried Ice, NASA)

It was a master surgeon, him that ampytated me—out of college and all—Latin by the bucket, and what not; but he was hanged like a dog, and sun-dried like the rest, at Corso Castle.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

This bureau stood in the corner, and in the opposite corner, on the table's other flank, was the kitchen—the oil-stove on a dry-goods box, inside of which were dishes and cooking utensils, a shelf on the wall for provisions, and a bucket of water on the floor.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Somehow he had succeeded in retaining the tin bucket.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Seeing that she had really melted away to nothing, Dorothy drew another bucket of water and threw it over the mess.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Watson, a bucket of water over the straw. That will do!

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the second dog-watch the sailors come on deck, stripped, and heave buckets of water upon one another from overside.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I found they had already applied ladders to the walls of the apartment, and were well provided with buckets, but the water was at some distance.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)