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bucket | becket |

As a verb bucket

is .

As a noun becket is

(nautical) a short piece of rope spliced to form a circle.

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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    becket

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) A short piece of rope spliced to form a circle
  • (nautical) A loop of rope with a knot at one end to catch in an eye at the other endUS FM 55-501 MARINE CREWMAN’S HANDBOOK; 1 December 1999 . Used to secure oars etc. at their place.
  • (nautical) The clevis of a pulley block.
  • An eye in the end of a rope.
  • A method of joining fabric, for example the doors of a tent, by interlacing loops of cord (beckets ) through eyelet holes and adjacent loops.
  • (UK, dialect) A spade for digging turf.
    • (Wright)
    File:Tent_Becket.JPG, Diagram showing beckets used to join tent panels together.

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