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What is the difference between barrel and bucket?

barrel | bucket |

In lang=en terms the difference between barrel and bucket

is that barrel is the part of a clarinet which connects the mouthpiece and upper joint, and looks rather like a barrel (1) while bucket is an old car that is not in good working order.

In transitive terms the difference between barrel and bucket

is that barrel is to put or to pack in a barrel or barrels while bucket is to place inside a bucket.

barrel

English

(wikipedia barrel) of a winery in (Trnava), (Slovakia).

Noun

(en noun)
  • (countable) A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads. Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Yesterday’s fuel , passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).}}
  • The quantity which constitutes a full barrel. This varies for different articles and also in different places for the same article, being regulated by custom or by law. A barrel of wine is 31 ½ gallons; a barrel of flour is 196 pounds; of beer 31 gallons; of ale 32 gallons; of crude oil 42 gallons.
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  • A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case;
  • A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
  • (archaic) A tube.
  • (zoology) The hollow basal part of a feather.
  • (music) The part of a clarinet which connects the mouthpiece and upper joint, and looks rather like a barrel (1).
  • (surfing) A wave that breaks with a hollow compartment.
  • A waste receptacle.
  • The ribs and belly of a horse or pony.
  • (obsolete) A jar.
  • * Bible , 1 Kings 17:12, King James Version:
  • And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel , and a little oil in a cruse:
  • *:: compare the New International Version:
  • *::: "As surely as the LORD your God lives," she replied, "I don't have any bread--only a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug.
  • (biology) Any of the dark-staining regions in the somatosensory cortex of rodents, etc., where somatosensory inputs from the contralateral side of the body come in from the thalamus.
  • See also

    * cooper

    Verb

  • To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.
  • To move quickly or in an uncontrolled manner.
  • He came barrelling around the corner and I almost hit him.
  • * '>citation
  • Snow shattered and spilled down the slope. Within seconds, the avalanche was the size of more than a thousand cars barreling down the mountain and weighed millions of pounds.

    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

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