Bucket vs Rub - 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)
An act of rubbing.
A difficulty or problem.
* III.i.71-75
* , Episode 16
In the game of crown green bowls: any obstacle by which a bowl is diverted from its normal course.
A mixture of spices applied to meat before it is barbecued.
To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction.
* , chapter=7
, title= To rub something against (a second thing).
* Sir T. Elyot
To be rubbed against something.
To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
* Milton
(dated) To move or pass with difficulty.
To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; often with up'' or ''over .
* South
To hinder; to cross; to thwart.
* Shakespeare
As a verb bucket
is .As a symbol rub is
russian rouble.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)rub
English
Noun
(en noun)- Give that lamp a good rub and see if any genies come out
- Therein lies the rub .
- To die, to sleep—/To sleep—perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub !/For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,/When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,/Must give us pause
- ...the propriety of the cabman's shelter, as it was called, hardly a stonesthrow away near Butt bridge where they might hit upon some drinkables in the shape of a milk and soda or a mineral. But how to get there was the rub .
Verb
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.}}
- It shall be expedient, after that body is cleaned, to rub the body with a coarse linen cloth.
- meat rubbed with spices before barbecuing
- The smoothed plank, / New rubbed with balm.
- to rub up silver
- The whole business of our redemption is to rub over the defaced copy of the creation.
- 'Tis the duke's pleasure, / Whose disposition, all the world well knows, / Will not be rubbed nor stopped.