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Ladle vs Bucket - What's the difference?

ladle | bucket |

In transitive terms the difference between ladle and bucket

is that ladle is to serve something with a ladle while bucket is to place inside a bucket.

ladle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A deep-bowled spoon with a long, usually curved, handle.
  • * Boyle
    • When the materials of glass have been kept long in fusion, the mixture casts up the superfluous salt, which the workmen take off with ladles .
  • A container used in a foundry to transport and pour out molten metal.
  • The float of a mill wheel; a ladle board.
  • An instrument for drawing the charge of a cannon.
  • A ring, with a handle or handles fitted to it, for carrying shot.

    • Synonyms

    * (deep-bowled spoon) dipper

    Derived terms

    * frying ladle

    Verb

  • to serve something with a ladle

    • Anagrams

    *

    References

    English words suffixed with -le

    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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    External links

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