bucket

substantivo

1. 1

   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.

   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.

2. 2

   The amount held in this container.

   The horse drank a whole bucket of water.

3. 3

   informalA large amount of liquid.

   It rained buckets yesterday.

   I was so nervous that I sweated buckets.

4. 4

   informalA great deal of anything.

   My new suit cost me buckets.

   We had buckets of fun.

5. 5

   arcaicoA unit of measure equal to four gallons.

6. 6

   The part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).

7. 7

   calãoSomeone who habitually uses crack cocaine.

8. 8

   calãoAn old vehicle that is not in good working order.

9. 9

   informalThe basket.

   The forward drove to the bucket.

10. 10

    informalA field goal.

    We can't keep giving up easy buckets.

    [Markieff] Morris isn’t quite the post-up threat that [Enes] Kanter is, and he can play both the 4 spot and 5 spot instead of just center, like Kanter. He is capable of playing a similar way, backing defenders down in the post. He prefers getting his buckets there with a bevy of fade-aways and jumpers. He’s a heat checker. And he can get hot on the block.

11. 11

    A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.

12. 12

    A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.

13. 13

    A turbine blade driven by hot gas or steam.

14. 14

    A bucket bag.

    Avoid bulky styles such as duffle sacks, buckets, doctors' satchels, and hobos.

15. 15

    The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted.

16. 16

    The pitcher in certain orchids.

17. 17

    calãoA helmet.

verbo

1. 1

   To place inside a bucket.

2. 2

   To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.

   to bucket water

3. 3

   informalTo rain heavily.

   It’s really bucketing down out there.

4. 4

   informalTo travel very quickly.

   The boat is bucketing along.

5. 5

   To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.

6. 6

   calãoTo criticize vehemently; to denigrate.

7. 7

   To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.

   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).

8. 8

   To engage in an illegal practice where a broker confirms a client's trade order without actually executing it on the free market.

   In United States v. Ficken (N.D. Ohio) the defendant was sentenced to 18 years imprisonment after pleading guilty to charges of converting clients' funds by "bucketing" their orders.

9. 9

   To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.

Formas

plural

buckets

pretérito

bucketed

particípio passado

bucketed

gerúndio

bucketing

3.ª pessoa do singular

buckets