Bucket vs Slot - 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)
A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc.
A metal bolt or wooden bar, especially as a crosspiece.
(electrical) A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.
(slang, surfing) The barrel or tube of a wave.
(obsolete) To bolt or lock a door or window.
(obsolete, transitive, UK, dialect) To shut with violence; to slam.
A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it.
A gap in a schedule or sequence.
(aviation) The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
(aviation) In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
(computing) A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.
(informal) A slot machine designed for gambling.
(slang) The vagina.
* 2006 , Shelby Reed, Madison Hayes, Love a Younger Man (page 165)
* 2006 , Rod Waleman, The Stepdaughters (page 20)
To put something (such as a coin) into a slot (narrow aperture)
To assign something or someone into a slot (gap in a schedule or sequence)
To put something where it belongs.
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The track of an animal, especially a deer.
:* 1819': “One is from Hexamshire; he is wont to trace the Tynedale and Teviotdale thieves, as a bloodhound follows the '''slot of a hurt deer.” — Walter Scott, ''Ivanhoe
As verbs the difference between bucket and slot
is that bucket is while slot is (sluta).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
*External links
* (commonslite)slot
English
(wikipedia slot)Etymology 1
From (etyl) slot or (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Verb
- to slot a door
Etymology 2
From Old French esclot , of unknown origin.Noun
(en noun)- The game offers four save slots .
- She'd like him jammed into her slot , like him to crank into her and she didn't think ignition would be far off if he did.
- Valerie sighed with pleasure as her husband skillfully found her slot and inserted the head of his straining prick inside, then bucked its thick-stemmed length all the way up her sex-channel.
Derived terms
* slotwiseVerb
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