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Pot vs Bucket - What's the difference?

pot | bucket |

In transitive terms the difference between pot and bucket

is that pot is to drain while bucket is to place inside a bucket.

As nouns the difference between pot and bucket

is that pot is a vessel used for cooking or storing food, or for growing plants in, especially flowers while bucket is a container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.

As verbs the difference between pot and bucket

is that pot is to put (something) into a pot while bucket is to place inside a bucket.

pot

English

(wikipedia pot)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), from late (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A vessel used for cooking or storing food, or for growing plants in, especially flowers.
  • * , chapter=10
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots , such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}
  • (label) The money wagered in poker or similar games.
  • A trap for catching lobsters, crabs, eels, or fish.
  • (label) An iron hat with a broad brim.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1786, author=(Francis Grose), title=A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page=12,
  • passage=The pot is an iron hat with broad brims: there are many under the denomination in the Tower, said to have been taken from the French; one of them is represented in plat 7, fig. 1 and 2.}}
  • A glass of beer, of a size that varies regionally but is normally 10 fl oz (285 ml).
  • * 2009 , Deborah Penrith, Jodie Seal, Live & Work in Australia , page 187,
  • There are plenty of pubs and bars all over Australia (serving beer in schooners – 425ml or middies/pots ~285ml), and if you don?t fancy those you can drink in wine bars, pleasant beer gardens, or with friends at home.
  • A potshot.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 1, author=Tom Fordyce, work=BBC Sport
  • , title= Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland , passage=England were shipping penalties at an alarming rate - five in the first 15 minutes alone - and with Wilkinson missing three long-distance pots of his own in the first 20 minutes, the alarm bells began to ring for Martin Johnson's men.}}
  • (label) A protruding belly; a paunch.
  • (label) Ruin or deterioration.
  • The act of causing a ball to fall into a pocket.
  • (label) A potentiometer.
  • (label) A non-conducting, usually ceramic, stand that supports the third rail while keeping it electrically insulated from the ground.
  • (label) An earthen or pewter cup for liquors; a mug.
  • A metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney; a chimney pot.
  • A crucible.
  • a graphite pot'''; a melting '''pot
  • A perforated cask for draining sugar.
  • (Knight)
  • A size of paper; pott.
  • (label) toilet
  • * 2011 , Ben Zeller, Secrets of Beaver Creek (page 204)
  • Synonyms
    * (cooking vessel) * (money wagered in a card game) * (trap for crustaceans or fish) * middy (qualifier), schooner (South Australia) * (potshot) * (protruding belly) beer belly * * (in English billiards) winning hazard * (potentiometer) * (non-conducting stand for a third rail)
    Derived terms
    * pot head * chamberpot * pisspot * pot ale * pot boiler * pot life * pot holder * pot roast * pot-au-feu * potbelly * potboil * potboiler * pothole * potpie * potpourri * potshot * potsherd * pot stirrer * pottage * potter * pottery * potty * hot pot * potted plant * stir the pot * teapot * two pot screamer
    See also
    * cooker * multicooker

    Verb

  • To put (something) into a pot.
  • to pot a plant
  • To preserve by bottling or canning.
  • potted meat
  • (label) To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
  • (label) To be capable of being potted.
  • The black ball doesn't pot ; the red is in the way.
  • To shoot.
  • (label) To send someone to gaol, expeditiously.
  • To tipple; to drink.
  • * Feltham
  • It is less labour to plough than to pot it.
  • (label) To drain.
  • to pot sugar, by taking it from the cooler, and placing it in hogsheads, etc. with perforated heads, through which the molasses drains off
  • To seat a person, usually a young child, onto a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.
  • Could you please pot the children before sending them to bed?

    Etymology 2

    Possibly a shortened form of Mexican (etyl) , supposedly denoting a drink of wine or brandy in which marijuana buds were steeped.

    Noun

    (-)
  • The drug marijuana.
  • Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * pothead

    Etymology 3

    (potentiometer) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to adjust sound volume) in an electronic device by rotating or sliding when manipulated by a human thumb, screwdriver, etc.
  • Derived terms
  • slide pot, a sliding (linear) potentiometer typically designed to be manipulated by a thumb or finger
  • thumb pot, a rotating potentiometer designed to be turned by a thumb or finger
  • References

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    Anagrams

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    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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