Bucket vs Bottle - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between bucket and bottle

is that bucket is to place inside a bucket.bottle is to seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.

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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bottle
English

Etymology 1
From (etyl) bottle, botle, buttle, from (etyl) botl, .
Noun
(en noun)
A dwelling; habitation.

A building; house.

Etymology 2
(etyl) and (etyl) boteille (Modern French bouteille), from buttis.
Alternative forms
* botl (Jamaican English)
Noun
(en noun)
A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.

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The contents of such a container.

A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.

(British, informal) Nerve, courage.

(attributive, of a person with a particular hair color) With one's hair color produced by dyeing.

(obsolete) A bundle, especially of hay; something tied in a bundle.

* End of the 14th century , (The Canterbury Tales), by (Geoffrey Chaucer),

Is that a Cook of London, with mischance? / Do him come forth, he knoweth his penance; / For he shall tell a tale, by my fay, / Although it be not worth a bottle hay.

* 1599 , (Much Ado About Nothing), by (William Shakespeare),

DON PEDRO. Well, if ever thou dost fall from this faith, thou wilt prove a notable argument.

BENEDICK. If I do, hang me in a bottle like a cat and shoot at me; and he that hits me, let him be clapped on the shoulder and called Adam.

* 1590s , , by (Christopher Marlowe)

I was no sooner in the middle of the pond, but my horse vanished away, and I sat upon a bottle of hay, never so near drowning in my life.

(figurative) Intoxicating liquor; alcohol.

Synonyms
* (for feeding babies) baby's bottle, feeding bottle, nursing bottle (US) * (courage) balls, courage, guts, nerve, pluck
Antonyms
* (courage) cowardice
Derived terms
* bottle bank * bottle blonde * bottlebrush * bottleneck * bottlenose * bottle opener, bottle-opener * bottle out * bottle sling * bottletop * bottle-washer * hit the bottle * Klein bottle * lightning in a bottle
Descendants
* Indonesian: (l) * Malay: (l),
See also
* flagon * flask * jar
Verb
(bottl)
To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.

This plant bottles vast quantities of spring water every day.

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(British) To feed (an infant) baby formula.

Because of complications she can't breast feed her baby and so she bottles him.

(British, slang) To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage.

The rider bottled the big jump.

(British, slang) To strike (someone) with a bottle.

He was bottled at a nightclub and had to have facial surgery.

(British, slang) To pelt (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval.

Meat Loaf was once bottled at Reading Festival.

Derived terms
* bottle up