Bucket vs Food - What's the difference?
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A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
The amount held in this container.
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.
(basketball, informal) A field goal.
(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.
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)
* 2008 , Hari Mohan Pandey, Design Analysis and Algorithm (page 136)
(uncountable) Any substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
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Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=72-3, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (countable) A foodstuff.
(uncountable, figuratively) Anything that nourishes or sustains.
* (and other bibiographic particulars) (William Shakespeare)
* (and other bibiographic particulars) (William Wordsworth)
As a verb bucket
is .As a noun food is
(uncountable) any substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.bucket
English
Noun
(en noun)- I need a bucket to carry the water from the well.
- 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 horse drank a whole bucket of water.
- The forward drove to the bucket .
- ''We can't keep giving up easy buckets .
- 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, rustbucketDerived 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 * tubVerb
(en verb)- These candidates are then bucketed into a discretized version of the space of all possible lines.
- 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 itReferences
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* (commonslite)food
English
Noun
(en-noun)citation, passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}
A punch in the gut, passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.}}
- Mozart and Bach are food for my soul.
- This may prove food to my displeasure.
- In this moment there is life and food / For future years.
