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As a verb bucket

is .

As a proper noun turkey is

country at the intersection of europe and asia on the mediterranean official name: republic of turkey.

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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    turkey

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Either of two species of bird in the genus Meleagris with fan-shaped tails and wattled necks.
  • (UK) The guinea fowl (Numida meleagris ).
  • (colloquial) A failure.
  • That film was a turkey .
  • (slang, usually, mildly, derogatory) A foolish or inept person.
  • The turkey cut in front of me and then berated me for running into him.
  • (bowling) An act of throwing three strikes in a row.
  • Synonyms

    * (bird) Meleagris gallopavo'', ''Meleagris ocellata * (failure) flop * (stupid person) fool, idiot, (US) jerk, (UK) plonker, (UK) prat

    Derived terms

    * Australian turkey * brush turkey * bush turkey * cold turkey * go full turkey * scrub turkey * talk turkey * turkey buzzard * turkeyling * turkey nest * turkey shoot * turkey trot * turkeys voting for Christmas * turkey vulture * water turkey

    See also

    * Anhinga * (Australian bustard) * (helmeted guineafowl)