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array | bucket |

As verbs the difference between array and bucket

is that array is to clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire while bucket is .

As a noun array

is clothing and ornamentation.

array

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Clothing and ornamentation.
    • (Dryden)
  • A collection laid out to be viewed in full.
  • An orderly series, arrangement or sequence.
  • * Prescott
    • a gallant array of nobles and cavaliers
  • Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle.
    • drawn up in battle array
  • * Gibbon
    • wedged together in the closest array
  • A large collection.
  • * Byron
    • their long array of sapphire and of gold
    We offer a dazzling array of choices.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011
    • , date=October 23 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Man Utd 1 - 6 Man City , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Mario Balotelli, in the headlines for accidentally setting his house ablaze with fireworks, put City on their way with goals either side of the interval as United struggled to contain the array of attacking talent in front of them.}}
  • (programming) Any of various data structures designed to hold multiple elements of the same type; especially , a data structure that holds these elements in adjacent memory locations so that they may be retrieved using numeric indices.
  • (legal) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impanelled in a cause; the panel itself; or the whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
  • (military) A militia.

    • Usage notes

    * (any of various data structures) The exact usage of the term , and of related terms, generally depends on the programming language. For example, many languages distinguish a fairly low-level "array" construct from a higher-level "list" or "vector" construct. Some languages distinguish between an "array" and a variety of "associative array"; others have only the latter concept, calling it an "array".

    Derived terms

    * * * * *

    Antonyms

    * (orderly series) disarray

    See also

    * (any of various data structures) ones-based indexing, zero-based indexing

    Verb

  • To clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire
    • He was arrayed in his finest robes and jewels.
  • To lay out in an orderly arrangement; to deploy or marshal
  • (legal) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them one at a time.
    • (Blackstone)

    bucket

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
    • I need a bucket to carry the water from the well.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
    • The crab was cool and very light. But the water was thick with sand, and so, scrambling down, Jacob was about to jump, holding his bucket in front of him, when he saw, stretched entirely rigid, side by side, their faces very red, an enormous man and woman.
  • The amount held in this container.
    • The horse drank a whole bucket of water.
  • A unit of measure equal to four gallons.
  • Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket .
  • (slang) An old car that is not in good working order.
  • (basketball, informal) The basket.
    • The forward drove to the bucket .
  • (basketball, informal) A field goal.
    • ''We can't keep giving up easy buckets .
  • (variation management) A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
  • (computing) A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
  • (informal, chiefly, plural) A large amount of liquid.
    • It rained buckets yesterday.
    I was so nervous that I sweated buckets .

    Synonyms

    * (container) pail * (piece of machinery) scoop, vane, blade * (old car) banger, jalopy, rustbucket

    Derived terms

    {{der3 , brain bucket , bucket brigade , bucket drive , bucket of bolts , bucket seat , bucket shop , bucketful , gutbucket , kick the bucket , leaky bucket , light bucket , rustbucket , token bucket , two tears in a bucket }}

    See also

    * barrel * keg * pail * tub

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To place inside a bucket.
  • (informal) To rain heavily.
  • * It’s really bucketing down out there.
  • (informal) To travel very quickly.
  • * The boat is bucketing along.
  • (computing) To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.
  • * 2002 , Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi, Masayuki Numao, Rüdiger Reischuk, Algorithmic Learning Theory: 13th International Conference (page 352)
    • These candidates are then bucketed into a discretized version of the space of all possible lines.
  • * 2008 , Hari Mohan Pandey, Design Analysis and Algorithm (page 136)
    • Thus, sorting each bucket takes O(1) times. The total effort of bucketing , sorting buckets, and concotenating(SIC) the sorted buckets together is O(n ).

    Synonyms

    * (rain heavily) chuck it down, piss down, rain cats and dogs * (travel very quickly) hurtle, rocket, shoot, speed, whizz, book it

    References

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    External links

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