Definition of bucket in English:

bucket

nounPlural buckets ˈbʌkɪtˈbəkət

1A roughly cylindrical open container with a handle, made of metal or plastic and used to hold and carry liquids.
桶，水桶，吊桶
a bucket and spade
an ice bucket
Example sentencesExamples
- Students used buckets and bottles to carry water from a local stream to highlight the lack of clean water in the developing world.
- Enterprising youngsters collected the petrol in buckets and plastic cool-drink bottles before taking it away to their homes.
- The highway, right from Chennai, is full of trucks and vans from all over India, carrying everything from medicines to food to plastic buckets.
- These can be clay or plastic flower pots, buckets, milk or juice containers, or any similar container that holds a half gallon of water or so.
- If you do not feel comfortable about handling toads, a plastic bucket or similar container can be placed over the animal until someone else can assist.
- Sections of bamboo or plastic buckets are used to carry water from nearby streams for cooking and washing.
- His attention wandered to the thin, almost rat-like man stepping up to the teller carrying a large metal bucket.
- We talked and examined the barrels and plastic buckets filled with fish, crabs and shiny squid.
- They give your child a Playstation when you bought theirs a plastic bucket and spade.
- After he'd checked out the next morning he called the police on a payphone and told them he'd seen a boy out by the fields carrying a bucket and a packet of matches.
- The beans are poured from the buckets into smaller metal bins, and pickers are paid based on the number of bins they fill.
- Requirements: tin buckets, plastic bags containing sufficient sand to half-fill each receptacle
- Transport the materials in a plastic bucket or pail to protect the pesticide container.
- Almost all containers - buckets, barrels, tanks - were made by coopers from various woods.
- Wolf came back, carrying a bright red plastic bucket with a white handle.
- Subsistence-netters use small boats to gather the fish and bring them to the shore while others wade into the water to collect fish in buckets and plastic bags.
- He still dumps the milk in buckets and carries the buckets to the milk tank.
- They would get up at five o'clock in the morning to milk 45 head of cattle with bucket-style milkers, and then carry the buckets to the milk coolers.
- Separate plastic buckets carry the right and left harnesses.
- Women roll barrels and carry buckets containing materials needed for the construction of a reservoir.
Synonyms
pail, scuttle, can, tub, pitcher, vessel
1. 1.1 The contents of a bucket or the amount it can contain.
  一桶的量
  she emptied a bucket of water over them
  她往他们身上倒了一桶水。
  Example sentencesExamples
  You just grab a big bucket of buttered popcorn, sit back and watch.
  Soak the roots in a bucket of water for a couple of hours before planting if they are dry or if the stems seem shrivelled, then trim any damaged roots and cut back very long ones to about 30 cm.
  And by the time she got to Vidya, a college student standing at a paan-bidi shop also saw what happened and rushed forward with a bucket of water.
  If they answer ‘incorrectly,’ they get drenched by the bucket of water suspended from a stepladder above them.
  One shot captures him pouring a bucket of money over his head.
  The happy couple had perched an enormous bucket of popcorn next to them, and as Hugo pirouetted into his seat, he managed to knock over the entire thing.
  If, by any chance, you're in a dilemma about what dessert to serve after you've eaten your freedom fries, you may wish to consider a bucket of Star Spangled Ice Cream.
  We either throw them into bath tubs full of water, or drag them under a shower, or dump a bucket of water on them.
  Somebody should throw a bucket of water on them.
  He's too lazy to use a bucket of soapy water and a broom.
  ‘She even put my clothes and shoes in a bucket of water to prevent me from going out,’ he said, laughing.
  Use a small amount of Kerosene in a bucket of water for a shiny finish rather than detergent.
  So I bought us a large bucket of popcorn, two hot dogs, two patties, a coconut water for me, a soda for her, and two Nestle Crunch bars.
  I bet you could get a bucket of builders’ sand and mix it with oil to get the same effect.
  A bucket of soapy water, 7 bar towels and 2 rolls of paper towels later, the task was done.
  Later, the bucket of soothing buttermilk was delivered.
  He then asked for a bucket of water and while inside the house grabbed the woman by the wrist and forced her to hand over £120 she was holding, causing bruising to her wrist.
  She pointed to the counter where we kept the sugar, salt, anything she might have used as a seasoning, and the big bucket of well water we drank from.
  When I went to Washington at Christmas I brought with me, at my sister's request, a giant bucket of Maltesers, and we sat and ate them, one after another, for hours.
  Another 100 people, each armed with a bucket of wax, then spent the morning preparing the foam and fibreglass super board.
2. 1.2bucketsinformal Large quantities of something, especially liquid.
  I wept buckets
  我泪如泉涌。
  Example sentencesExamples
  If it's subjective, biased, bad reporting people want, they can find that in buckets on the Net.
  Stores in London and Manchester we visited were selling them by the bucket: two London locations had sold out their stock entirely.
  Europeans come to the New World, Europeans buy big operations, Europeans lose buckets of money.
  The company has lost buckets of money over the last year or so, and was forced to implement a survival plan, the most notable element of which was a £22m rights issue.
  Chances are, you've already got buckets of MP3 files on your computer.
  I've lost gallons of sweat and buckets of blood all for you.
  Despite the heavens opening and depositing buckets of rain a few times this weekend, the festival has been hugely successful.
  Synonyms
  floods, gallons, pints, oceans
  British informal lashings
3. 1.3 A compartment on the outer edge of a waterwheel.
  （水车的）戽斗
  the Laxey wheel had 168 buckets, each holding 24 gallons
  Example sentencesExamples
  Every 60 seconds, a ball bearing drops from the left bucket on the channel to the waterwheel.
  A wooden or metal wheel with paddles or buckets of some kind are attached to the outside so that when set in a watercourse it will rotate as a result of pressure from the movement of the water.
  Water pours into the top bucket at a steady rate and gives the system energy while water leaks out of each bucket at a steady rate and removes energy from the system.
  The wheel has 60 buckets each which can hold 200 lb water.
  Too much water will make the buckets unstable and they may tip over.
4. 1.4 The scoop of a dredger or grain elevator.
  （挖掘机的）铲斗；（谷物升运器的）勺斗
  as the chain turns the buckets bite into the canal bed and scoop out the mud
  Example sentencesExamples
  Small buckets or scoops are fixed to the belts at regular intervals and these carry the grain from the elevator bottom to the top. The capacity depends upon width of buckets, spacing and belt speed. Elevators
  As the belt with the buckets was lowered into the hold of a ship, the buckets would scoop up the grain and hoist it up into the structure where it was dropped into tall bins.
  Inside the leg was a continuous belt on which small trapezoidal buckets were fastened, designed to carry grain to the elevator cupola where it was distributed to assigned bins through a spout operated by a manual guidance system in the driveway.
  He then placed the buckets closer together and was then able to achieve 1800 or 2000 bushels an hour.
  The grain would be lifted up in buckets attached to a conveyor belt to the top of the elevator and then distributed into storage bins by a movable spout.
5. 1.5 A scoop attached to the front of a loader, digger, or tractor.
  （装卸设备、挖掘机、拖拉机等前面安装的）挖斗；铲斗
  Example sentencesExamples
  I started with an old bucket from a front-end loader and removed the teeth and the grapple fork.
  You can use this attachment with a wide bucket to dig.
  The crash investigator said one of the things he was trying to ascertain was the position of the tractor bucket at the time of the fatal crash earlier this month.
  It has a small bucket on the front and hoe on the back, with an arm that lays over to drop the center of gravity for travel.
  Tethers were attached to the bucket and backhoe of the Bobcat while others were secured to the machine itself.
  Increasingly, that's likely to require an attachment other than a bucket.
  He was crushed to death when a loader bucket fell down a shaft on him.
  Other attachments may include grading buckets, hydraulic breakers, plate compactors, augers, or rippers.
  His arm was crushed by a large bucket on a digger.
  An ambulance spokesman told how the man was working in an eight-foot deep trench fitting pipes when a digger bucket fell on him.
  It has a hydraulic PTO and can directly power a four-in-one bucket and several attachments.
  Besides demolition, BROKK machines could also remove debris with a bucket attachment.
  An attachable implement such as a loader bucket is attached to the actuator.
  Without it, the job would require an entire day and five laborers using a skid-steer loader with a bucket.
  A full investigation has been launched after a workman suffered severe arm injuries when he was crushed by a bucket on a digger at a recycling centre.
  It was just adapted for the removal of trees by attaching the bucket to the rear.
  Usually, however, the most common miniexcavator attachments are buckets of varying sizes, breakers, and augers.
  So he called his dad who brought up the tractor, and he got into the digger bucket and they maneuvered it up high into the tree and rescued her.
  Of course, buckets were designed to scoop dirt, not wreck structures or collect and hoist the gangly debris.
  This company also makes use of quick couplers on its loaders, so the bucket can quickly be attached or removed from the loader.
2Computing
A unit of data that can be transferred from a backing store in a single operation.
〔计算机〕存储桶
Example sentencesExamples
- Most hashes start small and dynamically resize over time as the lists of the buckets get too long.
- This selects buckets for redistributing data between nodes in a parallel database in the incremental mode.
- However, it begins to fall apart if presentational elements do not fall easily into the predetermined buckets for each archetype.
- The Kademlia distributed hash table goes further and orders the nodes in the bucket in terms of recorded uptime.
- These caches can be thought of as simple hardware hash tables with fixed size buckets and no chaining, as shown in Figure 1.

verbbuckets, bucketing, bucketed ˈbʌkɪtˈbəkət

[no object]informal

1it buckets down", "it is bucketing down, etc.British Rain heavily.
it was still bucketing down
天还在下大雨。
Example sentencesExamples
- On Saturday night last it bucketed rain once again but a dry Sunday allowed Markievicz Park in Sligo to dry off and the pitch was in great shape for the meeting of Corofin and Eastern Gaels in the first round of the Connacht Club S.F.C.
- In one hour, between midnight and 1am, almost one inch of rain bucketed down on the city.
- Sadly, the Full Circle weather system, having periodically bucketed on us in Africa, immediately finds us in Palau, and gleefully hurls stair-rods of rain on all and sundry for our first couple of days.
- By the time the early night rain was bucketing down on the pitch, Celtic were actually home and dry, spraying the ball around and running down the clock for a slender win, but one more victory nonetheless.
- But when we went to Norway we arrived wearing shorts and T-shirts to find it bucketing down with rain.
- The weather was lovely - which was great because it bucketed rain on Thurady and Saturday.
- ‘We were on our way into Leeds at around 12.30 pm and it was bucketing it down, buses were having to drive into the middle of The Headrow to keep out of the water,’ he said.
- Its been bucketing it down in these parts for the last few days.
- Not a single ray of sunlight could be seen, the dusty blue-grey sky was covered in clouds the colour of charcoal, rain was bucketing down and a flash of lightning dashed across the sky.
- It was very dark and bucketing down with rain when I had my first chance to drive the car a highly important outing to Burger King drive-thru.
- The more it bucketed, the more she beamed, perhaps hoping that viewers would admire her gleaming dentistry long enough for play to resume on Centre Court.
- Typical of the kind of weather we've been having this summer, the rain was bucketing down.
- Unfortunately we had reckoned without the Texas weather, which decided to bucket down with rain all morning.
- I just hope the sky clears a bit; it's very cloudy and been bucketing it down this afternoon.
- But with the rain bucketing down overnight and throughout the morning and early afternoon, there was little option but to abandon the remainder of the tournament.
- He thought about walking to the chemist but the rain was still bucketing down.
- It was a wash out last year because of the weather, it absolutely bucketed it out of the sky.
- It was bucketing it down; the caravan site looked as if it had been hit by a mud slide; and we each needed two cardigans, a cagoule, thermal gloves and a balaclava to make it down to the seafront without contracting hypothermia.
- By the traditional Malayalam calendar, its Thulavarsham (the rain in Thulam) that is bucketing from the skies over Kerala, south interior Karnataka, Rayalaseema and Tamil Nadu.
- The rain was bucketing down hard and showed no sign of letting up.
Synonyms
rain heavily, rain cats and dogs, rain hard, pour, pelt, lash, teem, stream, tip, beat, sheet
2with adverbial of direction (of a vehicle) move quickly and jerkily.
〈非正式〉（车辆）快速颠簸着行驶
the car came bucketing out of a side road
小汽车颠簸着从边上一条路冲了出来。
Example sentencesExamples
- The Cuban driver swung out of town, and the bus bucketed along the narrow muddy road.
- So I held on to the string, and the whistle continued and the little train bucketed along like a mad thing till I was told to let go.
- That was the sign on the vestibule of the car we had just entered on the Oslo-Bergen express, bucketing across the snowy mountains of Norway.
- In the far off distance, a single vehicle was bucketing along the road, a brown cloud of dust boiling up behind it.
- Jonathan Raban has become our Tocqueville, our Crevecoeur, as he has roamed South and West, riding a Mississippi raft, following railroad lines, and bucketing across the prairie and the plains in his old car.
Synonyms
speed, hurry, race, run, sprint, dash, bolt, dart, rush, hasten, hurtle, career, streak, shoot, whizz, zoom, go like lightning, go hell for leather, spank along, bowl along, rattle along, whirl, whoosh, buzz, swoop, flash, blast, charge, stampede, gallop, sweep, hare, fly, wing, scurry, scud, scutter, scramble

Phrases

tip (or drop or turn) the bucket on

informal Make damaging revelations about (someone or something)
a corporate whistle-blower wanting to tip the bucket on an unscrupulous employer
Example sentencesExamples
- They'd really tip the bucket on him now.
- I will not miss the opportunity to speak on a first reading motion again and to tip the bucket on Liberal Party crooks.
- Shirley was genuine, not one of the loudmouths who tip the bucket on the union.
- The incident made me want to tip the bucket on this kind of behaviour.
- I'm not going to tip the bucket on anyone.
- Let us not tip the bucket on a nation when we ourselves have been guilty of exactly the same type of approach to a problem.
- She seems to know we're going to tip the bucket on her meal ticket.
- They decided to tip the bucket on the bank's star planner.
- He won't be answering to any inquiries when he tips the bucket on scandal, skulduggery, or just general incompetence.
- He has always been prepared to tip the bucket on somebody who is down.

Derivatives

bucketful

nounPlural bucketfuls ˈbʌkɪtfʊl

Everybody knows they are there and I went down with a small net the other day and came back with three bucketfuls.
Example sentencesExamples
- They are also rich in cockles and for generations local people have gathered small bucketfuls of the shellfish to eat.
- Meanwhile, there is one hardy annual which is always guaranteed to bloom, bringing with it colour and a bucketfuls of pizazz.
- Those qualities were in evidence by the bucketful yesterday as free-running Heriot's won the game and the title with the combination of panache and style which has become their hallmark.
- It teeters on the cusp of the Mediterranean, offering endless vistas of blue-green sea, bucketfuls of fresh air, and crumbling, salty buildings of the old town that still manage to retain their elegance.

Origin

Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French buquet 'tub, pail', perhaps from Old English būc 'belly, pitcher'.

Rhymes

Nantucket, tucket

Definition of bucket in US English:

bucket

nounˈbəkətˈbəkət

1A roughly cylindrical open container, typically made of metal or plastic, with a handle, used to hold and carry liquids or other material.
桶，水桶，吊桶
Example sentencesExamples
- Transport the materials in a plastic bucket or pail to protect the pesticide container.
- These can be clay or plastic flower pots, buckets, milk or juice containers, or any similar container that holds a half gallon of water or so.
- After he'd checked out the next morning he called the police on a payphone and told them he'd seen a boy out by the fields carrying a bucket and a packet of matches.
- If you do not feel comfortable about handling toads, a plastic bucket or similar container can be placed over the animal until someone else can assist.
- The beans are poured from the buckets into smaller metal bins, and pickers are paid based on the number of bins they fill.
- Women roll barrels and carry buckets containing materials needed for the construction of a reservoir.
- Students used buckets and bottles to carry water from a local stream to highlight the lack of clean water in the developing world.
- Subsistence-netters use small boats to gather the fish and bring them to the shore while others wade into the water to collect fish in buckets and plastic bags.
- We talked and examined the barrels and plastic buckets filled with fish, crabs and shiny squid.
- Enterprising youngsters collected the petrol in buckets and plastic cool-drink bottles before taking it away to their homes.
- Separate plastic buckets carry the right and left harnesses.
- They would get up at five o'clock in the morning to milk 45 head of cattle with bucket-style milkers, and then carry the buckets to the milk coolers.
- His attention wandered to the thin, almost rat-like man stepping up to the teller carrying a large metal bucket.
- Almost all containers - buckets, barrels, tanks - were made by coopers from various woods.
- Requirements: tin buckets, plastic bags containing sufficient sand to half-fill each receptacle
- He still dumps the milk in buckets and carries the buckets to the milk tank.
- Wolf came back, carrying a bright red plastic bucket with a white handle.
- They give your child a Playstation when you bought theirs a plastic bucket and spade.
- Sections of bamboo or plastic buckets are used to carry water from nearby streams for cooking and washing.
- The highway, right from Chennai, is full of trucks and vans from all over India, carrying everything from medicines to food to plastic buckets.
Synonyms
pail, scuttle, can, tub, pitcher, vessel
1. 1.1 The contents of a bucket or the amount it can contain.
  一桶的量
  she emptied a bucket of water over them
  她往他们身上倒了一桶水。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He's too lazy to use a bucket of soapy water and a broom.
  We either throw them into bath tubs full of water, or drag them under a shower, or dump a bucket of water on them.
  He then asked for a bucket of water and while inside the house grabbed the woman by the wrist and forced her to hand over £120 she was holding, causing bruising to her wrist.
  A bucket of soapy water, 7 bar towels and 2 rolls of paper towels later, the task was done.
  I bet you could get a bucket of builders’ sand and mix it with oil to get the same effect.
  And by the time she got to Vidya, a college student standing at a paan-bidi shop also saw what happened and rushed forward with a bucket of water.
  The happy couple had perched an enormous bucket of popcorn next to them, and as Hugo pirouetted into his seat, he managed to knock over the entire thing.
  Later, the bucket of soothing buttermilk was delivered.
  She pointed to the counter where we kept the sugar, salt, anything she might have used as a seasoning, and the big bucket of well water we drank from.
  If, by any chance, you're in a dilemma about what dessert to serve after you've eaten your freedom fries, you may wish to consider a bucket of Star Spangled Ice Cream.
  So I bought us a large bucket of popcorn, two hot dogs, two patties, a coconut water for me, a soda for her, and two Nestle Crunch bars.
  Somebody should throw a bucket of water on them.
  ‘She even put my clothes and shoes in a bucket of water to prevent me from going out,’ he said, laughing.
  When I went to Washington at Christmas I brought with me, at my sister's request, a giant bucket of Maltesers, and we sat and ate them, one after another, for hours.
  Use a small amount of Kerosene in a bucket of water for a shiny finish rather than detergent.
  You just grab a big bucket of buttered popcorn, sit back and watch.
  Soak the roots in a bucket of water for a couple of hours before planting if they are dry or if the stems seem shrivelled, then trim any damaged roots and cut back very long ones to about 30 cm.
  If they answer ‘incorrectly,’ they get drenched by the bucket of water suspended from a stepladder above them.
  One shot captures him pouring a bucket of money over his head.
  Another 100 people, each armed with a bucket of wax, then spent the morning preparing the foam and fibreglass super board.
2. 1.2bucketsinformal Large quantities of liquid, typically rain or tears.
  〈非正式〉大量液体（尤指雨水或眼泪）
  I wept buckets
  我泪如泉涌。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I've lost gallons of sweat and buckets of blood all for you.
  Despite the heavens opening and depositing buckets of rain a few times this weekend, the festival has been hugely successful.
  Europeans come to the New World, Europeans buy big operations, Europeans lose buckets of money.
  Chances are, you've already got buckets of MP3 files on your computer.
  The company has lost buckets of money over the last year or so, and was forced to implement a survival plan, the most notable element of which was a £22m rights issue.
  If it's subjective, biased, bad reporting people want, they can find that in buckets on the Net.
  Stores in London and Manchester we visited were selling them by the bucket: two London locations had sold out their stock entirely.
  Synonyms
  floods, gallons, pints, oceans
3. 1.3Basketball informal A basket.
  Example sentencesExamples
  In the final 18 seconds, he blocked two shots, including a potential tying bucket by Aaron McKie.
  Even worse, firing off a jump shot is no guarantee of making a bucket, even if you're not covered.
  Did anybody catch Tim Tom's game clinching bucket against the Sixers in over-time?
  Trenton Hassell banked home a trey for the game winning bucket with the score knotted at 100 and just one tick left on the shot clock.
  If they need 2 or 3 buckets to tie the game with less than a minute left, they'll still take far too much time to get a play going.
4. 1.4 A compartment on the outer edge of a waterwheel.
  （水车的）戽斗
  Example sentencesExamples
  The wheel has 60 buckets each which can hold 200 lb water.
  Too much water will make the buckets unstable and they may tip over.
  Every 60 seconds, a ball bearing drops from the left bucket on the channel to the waterwheel.
  Water pours into the top bucket at a steady rate and gives the system energy while water leaks out of each bucket at a steady rate and removes energy from the system.
  A wooden or metal wheel with paddles or buckets of some kind are attached to the outside so that when set in a watercourse it will rotate as a result of pressure from the movement of the water.
5. 1.5 The scoop of a dredger or grain elevator.
  （挖掘机的）铲斗；（谷物升运器的）勺斗
  Example sentencesExamples
  As the belt with the buckets was lowered into the hold of a ship, the buckets would scoop up the grain and hoist it up into the structure where it was dropped into tall bins.
  Small buckets or scoops are fixed to the belts at regular intervals and these carry the grain from the elevator bottom to the top. The capacity depends upon width of buckets, spacing and belt speed. Elevators
  Inside the leg was a continuous belt on which small trapezoidal buckets were fastened, designed to carry grain to the elevator cupola where it was distributed to assigned bins through a spout operated by a manual guidance system in the driveway.
  He then placed the buckets closer together and was then able to achieve 1800 or 2000 bushels an hour.
  The grain would be lifted up in buckets attached to a conveyor belt to the top of the elevator and then distributed into storage bins by a movable spout.
6. 1.6 A scoop attached to the front of a loader, digger, or tractor.
  （装卸设备、挖掘机、拖拉机等前面安装的）挖斗；铲斗
  Example sentencesExamples
  He was crushed to death when a loader bucket fell down a shaft on him.
  An attachable implement such as a loader bucket is attached to the actuator.
  This company also makes use of quick couplers on its loaders, so the bucket can quickly be attached or removed from the loader.
  Of course, buckets were designed to scoop dirt, not wreck structures or collect and hoist the gangly debris.
  It has a small bucket on the front and hoe on the back, with an arm that lays over to drop the center of gravity for travel.
  His arm was crushed by a large bucket on a digger.
  Increasingly, that's likely to require an attachment other than a bucket.
  Without it, the job would require an entire day and five laborers using a skid-steer loader with a bucket.
  An ambulance spokesman told how the man was working in an eight-foot deep trench fitting pipes when a digger bucket fell on him.
  So he called his dad who brought up the tractor, and he got into the digger bucket and they maneuvered it up high into the tree and rescued her.
  It was just adapted for the removal of trees by attaching the bucket to the rear.
  Other attachments may include grading buckets, hydraulic breakers, plate compactors, augers, or rippers.
  Besides demolition, BROKK machines could also remove debris with a bucket attachment.
  Usually, however, the most common miniexcavator attachments are buckets of varying sizes, breakers, and augers.
  Tethers were attached to the bucket and backhoe of the Bobcat while others were secured to the machine itself.
  A full investigation has been launched after a workman suffered severe arm injuries when he was crushed by a bucket on a digger at a recycling centre.
  I started with an old bucket from a front-end loader and removed the teeth and the grapple fork.
  It has a hydraulic PTO and can directly power a four-in-one bucket and several attachments.
  You can use this attachment with a wide bucket to dig.
  The crash investigator said one of the things he was trying to ascertain was the position of the tractor bucket at the time of the fatal crash earlier this month.
2Computing
A unit of data that can be transferred from secondary storage in a single operation.
〔计算机〕存储桶
Example sentencesExamples
- However, it begins to fall apart if presentational elements do not fall easily into the predetermined buckets for each archetype.
- This selects buckets for redistributing data between nodes in a parallel database in the incremental mode.
- The Kademlia distributed hash table goes further and orders the nodes in the bucket in terms of recorded uptime.
- Most hashes start small and dynamically resize over time as the lists of the buckets get too long.
- These caches can be thought of as simple hardware hash tables with fixed size buckets and no chaining, as shown in Figure 1.

verbˈbəkətˈbəkət

[no object]informal

1it buckets", "it is bucketing, etc.British Rain heavily.
it was still bucketing down
天还在下大雨。
Example sentencesExamples
- But with the rain bucketing down overnight and throughout the morning and early afternoon, there was little option but to abandon the remainder of the tournament.
- Its been bucketing it down in these parts for the last few days.
- It was very dark and bucketing down with rain when I had my first chance to drive the car a highly important outing to Burger King drive-thru.
- Unfortunately we had reckoned without the Texas weather, which decided to bucket down with rain all morning.
- Typical of the kind of weather we've been having this summer, the rain was bucketing down.
- It was a wash out last year because of the weather, it absolutely bucketed it out of the sky.
- Not a single ray of sunlight could be seen, the dusty blue-grey sky was covered in clouds the colour of charcoal, rain was bucketing down and a flash of lightning dashed across the sky.
- He thought about walking to the chemist but the rain was still bucketing down.
- But when we went to Norway we arrived wearing shorts and T-shirts to find it bucketing down with rain.
- The rain was bucketing down hard and showed no sign of letting up.
- It was bucketing it down; the caravan site looked as if it had been hit by a mud slide; and we each needed two cardigans, a cagoule, thermal gloves and a balaclava to make it down to the seafront without contracting hypothermia.
- In one hour, between midnight and 1am, almost one inch of rain bucketed down on the city.
- By the time the early night rain was bucketing down on the pitch, Celtic were actually home and dry, spraying the ball around and running down the clock for a slender win, but one more victory nonetheless.
- On Saturday night last it bucketed rain once again but a dry Sunday allowed Markievicz Park in Sligo to dry off and the pitch was in great shape for the meeting of Corofin and Eastern Gaels in the first round of the Connacht Club S.F.C.
- I just hope the sky clears a bit; it's very cloudy and been bucketing it down this afternoon.
- Sadly, the Full Circle weather system, having periodically bucketed on us in Africa, immediately finds us in Palau, and gleefully hurls stair-rods of rain on all and sundry for our first couple of days.
- ‘We were on our way into Leeds at around 12.30 pm and it was bucketing it down, buses were having to drive into the middle of The Headrow to keep out of the water,’ he said.
- The weather was lovely - which was great because it bucketed rain on Thurady and Saturday.
- By the traditional Malayalam calendar, its Thulavarsham (the rain in Thulam) that is bucketing from the skies over Kerala, south interior Karnataka, Rayalaseema and Tamil Nadu.
- The more it bucketed, the more she beamed, perhaps hoping that viewers would admire her gleaming dentistry long enough for play to resume on Centre Court.
Synonyms
rain heavily, rain cats and dogs, rain hard, pour, pelt, lash, teem, stream, tip, beat, sheet
2with adverbial of direction (of a vehicle) move quickly and jerkily.
〈非正式〉（车辆）快速颠簸着行驶
the car came bucketing out of a side road
小汽车颠簸着从边上一条路冲了出来。
Example sentencesExamples
- So I held on to the string, and the whistle continued and the little train bucketed along like a mad thing till I was told to let go.
- Jonathan Raban has become our Tocqueville, our Crevecoeur, as he has roamed South and West, riding a Mississippi raft, following railroad lines, and bucketing across the prairie and the plains in his old car.
- That was the sign on the vestibule of the car we had just entered on the Oslo-Bergen express, bucketing across the snowy mountains of Norway.
- In the far off distance, a single vehicle was bucketing along the road, a brown cloud of dust boiling up behind it.
- The Cuban driver swung out of town, and the bus bucketed along the narrow muddy road.
Synonyms
speed, hurry, race, run, sprint, dash, bolt, dart, rush, hasten, hurtle, career, streak, shoot, whizz, zoom, go like lightning, go hell for leather, spank along, bowl along, rattle along, whirl, whoosh, buzz, swoop, flash, blast, charge, stampede, gallop, sweep, hare, fly, wing, scurry, scud, scutter, scramble

Origin

Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French buquet ‘tub, pail’, perhaps from Old English būc ‘belly, pitcher’.

单词	bucket
释义	Definition of bucket in English: bucket nounPlural buckets ˈbʌkɪtˈbəkət 1A roughly cylindrical open container with a handle, made of metal or plastic and used to hold and carry liquids. 桶，水桶，吊桶 a bucket and spade an ice bucket Example sentencesExamples Students used buckets and bottles to carry water from a local stream to highlight the lack of clean water in the developing world. Enterprising youngsters collected the petrol in buckets and plastic cool-drink bottles before taking it away to their homes. The highway, right from Chennai, is full of trucks and vans from all over India, carrying everything from medicines to food to plastic buckets. These can be clay or plastic flower pots, buckets, milk or juice containers, or any similar container that holds a half gallon of water or so. If you do not feel comfortable about handling toads, a plastic bucket or similar container can be placed over the animal until someone else can assist. Sections of bamboo or plastic buckets are used to carry water from nearby streams for cooking and washing. His attention wandered to the thin, almost rat-like man stepping up to the teller carrying a large metal bucket. We talked and examined the barrels and plastic buckets filled with fish, crabs and shiny squid. They give your child a Playstation when you bought theirs a plastic bucket and spade. After he'd checked out the next morning he called the police on a payphone and told them he'd seen a boy out by the fields carrying a bucket and a packet of matches. The beans are poured from the buckets into smaller metal bins, and pickers are paid based on the number of bins they fill. Requirements: tin buckets, plastic bags containing sufficient sand to half-fill each receptacle Transport the materials in a plastic bucket or pail to protect the pesticide container. Almost all containers - buckets, barrels, tanks - were made by coopers from various woods. Wolf came back, carrying a bright red plastic bucket with a white handle. Subsistence-netters use small boats to gather the fish and bring them to the shore while others wade into the water to collect fish in buckets and plastic bags. He still dumps the milk in buckets and carries the buckets to the milk tank. They would get up at five o'clock in the morning to milk 45 head of cattle with bucket-style milkers, and then carry the buckets to the milk coolers. Separate plastic buckets carry the right and left harnesses. Women roll barrels and carry buckets containing materials needed for the construction of a reservoir. Synonyms pail, scuttle, can, tub, pitcher, vessel 1.1 The contents of a bucket or the amount it can contain. 一桶的量 she emptied a bucket of water over them 她往他们身上倒了一桶水。 Example sentencesExamples You just grab a big bucket of buttered popcorn, sit back and watch. Soak the roots in a bucket of water for a couple of hours before planting if they are dry or if the stems seem shrivelled, then trim any damaged roots and cut back very long ones to about 30 cm. And by the time she got to Vidya, a college student standing at a paan-bidi shop also saw what happened and rushed forward with a bucket of water. If they answer ‘incorrectly,’ they get drenched by the bucket of water suspended from a stepladder above them. One shot captures him pouring a bucket of money over his head. The happy couple had perched an enormous bucket of popcorn next to them, and as Hugo pirouetted into his seat, he managed to knock over the entire thing. If, by any chance, you're in a dilemma about what dessert to serve after you've eaten your freedom fries, you may wish to consider a bucket of Star Spangled Ice Cream. We either throw them into bath tubs full of water, or drag them under a shower, or dump a bucket of water on them. Somebody should throw a bucket of water on them. He's too lazy to use a bucket of soapy water and a broom. ‘She even put my clothes and shoes in a bucket of water to prevent me from going out,’ he said, laughing. Use a small amount of Kerosene in a bucket of water for a shiny finish rather than detergent. So I bought us a large bucket of popcorn, two hot dogs, two patties, a coconut water for me, a soda for her, and two Nestle Crunch bars. I bet you could get a bucket of builders’ sand and mix it with oil to get the same effect. A bucket of soapy water, 7 bar towels and 2 rolls of paper towels later, the task was done. Later, the bucket of soothing buttermilk was delivered. He then asked for a bucket of water and while inside the house grabbed the woman by the wrist and forced her to hand over £120 she was holding, causing bruising to her wrist. She pointed to the counter where we kept the sugar, salt, anything she might have used as a seasoning, and the big bucket of well water we drank from. When I went to Washington at Christmas I brought with me, at my sister's request, a giant bucket of Maltesers, and we sat and ate them, one after another, for hours. Another 100 people, each armed with a bucket of wax, then spent the morning preparing the foam and fibreglass super board. 1.2bucketsinformal Large quantities of something, especially liquid. I wept buckets 我泪如泉涌。 Example sentencesExamples If it's subjective, biased, bad reporting people want, they can find that in buckets on the Net. Stores in London and Manchester we visited were selling them by the bucket: two London locations had sold out their stock entirely. Europeans come to the New World, Europeans buy big operations, Europeans lose buckets of money. The company has lost buckets of money over the last year or so, and was forced to implement a survival plan, the most notable element of which was a £22m rights issue. Chances are, you've already got buckets of MP3 files on your computer. I've lost gallons of sweat and buckets of blood all for you. Despite the heavens opening and depositing buckets of rain a few times this weekend, the festival has been hugely successful. Synonyms floods, gallons, pints, oceans British informal lashings 1.3 A compartment on the outer edge of a waterwheel. （水车的）戽斗 the Laxey wheel had 168 buckets, each holding 24 gallons Example sentencesExamples Every 60 seconds, a ball bearing drops from the left bucket on the channel to the waterwheel. A wooden or metal wheel with paddles or buckets of some kind are attached to the outside so that when set in a watercourse it will rotate as a result of pressure from the movement of the water. Water pours into the top bucket at a steady rate and gives the system energy while water leaks out of each bucket at a steady rate and removes energy from the system. The wheel has 60 buckets each which can hold 200 lb water. Too much water will make the buckets unstable and they may tip over. 1.4 The scoop of a dredger or grain elevator. （挖掘机的）铲斗；（谷物升运器的）勺斗 as the chain turns the buckets bite into the canal bed and scoop out the mud Example sentencesExamples Small buckets or scoops are fixed to the belts at regular intervals and these carry the grain from the elevator bottom to the top. The capacity depends upon width of buckets, spacing and belt speed. Elevators As the belt with the buckets was lowered into the hold of a ship, the buckets would scoop up the grain and hoist it up into the structure where it was dropped into tall bins. Inside the leg was a continuous belt on which small trapezoidal buckets were fastened, designed to carry grain to the elevator cupola where it was distributed to assigned bins through a spout operated by a manual guidance system in the driveway. He then placed the buckets closer together and was then able to achieve 1800 or 2000 bushels an hour. The grain would be lifted up in buckets attached to a conveyor belt to the top of the elevator and then distributed into storage bins by a movable spout. 1.5 A scoop attached to the front of a loader, digger, or tractor. （装卸设备、挖掘机、拖拉机等前面安装的）挖斗；铲斗 Example sentencesExamples I started with an old bucket from a front-end loader and removed the teeth and the grapple fork. You can use this attachment with a wide bucket to dig. The crash investigator said one of the things he was trying to ascertain was the position of the tractor bucket at the time of the fatal crash earlier this month. It has a small bucket on the front and hoe on the back, with an arm that lays over to drop the center of gravity for travel. Tethers were attached to the bucket and backhoe of the Bobcat while others were secured to the machine itself. Increasingly, that's likely to require an attachment other than a bucket. He was crushed to death when a loader bucket fell down a shaft on him. Other attachments may include grading buckets, hydraulic breakers, plate compactors, augers, or rippers. His arm was crushed by a large bucket on a digger. An ambulance spokesman told how the man was working in an eight-foot deep trench fitting pipes when a digger bucket fell on him. It has a hydraulic PTO and can directly power a four-in-one bucket and several attachments. Besides demolition, BROKK machines could also remove debris with a bucket attachment. An attachable implement such as a loader bucket is attached to the actuator. Without it, the job would require an entire day and five laborers using a skid-steer loader with a bucket. A full investigation has been launched after a workman suffered severe arm injuries when he was crushed by a bucket on a digger at a recycling centre. It was just adapted for the removal of trees by attaching the bucket to the rear. Usually, however, the most common miniexcavator attachments are buckets of varying sizes, breakers, and augers. So he called his dad who brought up the tractor, and he got into the digger bucket and they maneuvered it up high into the tree and rescued her. Of course, buckets were designed to scoop dirt, not wreck structures or collect and hoist the gangly debris. This company also makes use of quick couplers on its loaders, so the bucket can quickly be attached or removed from the loader. 2Computing A unit of data that can be transferred from a backing store in a single operation. 〔计算机〕存储桶 Example sentencesExamples Most hashes start small and dynamically resize over time as the lists of the buckets get too long. This selects buckets for redistributing data between nodes in a parallel database in the incremental mode. However, it begins to fall apart if presentational elements do not fall easily into the predetermined buckets for each archetype. The Kademlia distributed hash table goes further and orders the nodes in the bucket in terms of recorded uptime. These caches can be thought of as simple hardware hash tables with fixed size buckets and no chaining, as shown in Figure 1. verbbuckets, bucketing, bucketed ˈbʌkɪtˈbəkət [no object]informal 1it buckets down", "it is bucketing down, etc.British Rain heavily. it was still bucketing down 天还在下大雨。 Example sentencesExamples On Saturday night last it bucketed rain once again but a dry Sunday allowed Markievicz Park in Sligo to dry off and the pitch was in great shape for the meeting of Corofin and Eastern Gaels in the first round of the Connacht Club S.F.C. In one hour, between midnight and 1am, almost one inch of rain bucketed down on the city. Sadly, the Full Circle weather system, having periodically bucketed on us in Africa, immediately finds us in Palau, and gleefully hurls stair-rods of rain on all and sundry for our first couple of days. By the time the early night rain was bucketing down on the pitch, Celtic were actually home and dry, spraying the ball around and running down the clock for a slender win, but one more victory nonetheless. But when we went to Norway we arrived wearing shorts and T-shirts to find it bucketing down with rain. The weather was lovely - which was great because it bucketed rain on Thurady and Saturday. ‘We were on our way into Leeds at around 12.30 pm and it was bucketing it down, buses were having to drive into the middle of The Headrow to keep out of the water,’ he said. Its been bucketing it down in these parts for the last few days. Not a single ray of sunlight could be seen, the dusty blue-grey sky was covered in clouds the colour of charcoal, rain was bucketing down and a flash of lightning dashed across the sky. It was very dark and bucketing down with rain when I had my first chance to drive the car a highly important outing to Burger King drive-thru. The more it bucketed, the more she beamed, perhaps hoping that viewers would admire her gleaming dentistry long enough for play to resume on Centre Court. Typical of the kind of weather we've been having this summer, the rain was bucketing down. Unfortunately we had reckoned without the Texas weather, which decided to bucket down with rain all morning. I just hope the sky clears a bit; it's very cloudy and been bucketing it down this afternoon. But with the rain bucketing down overnight and throughout the morning and early afternoon, there was little option but to abandon the remainder of the tournament. He thought about walking to the chemist but the rain was still bucketing down. It was a wash out last year because of the weather, it absolutely bucketed it out of the sky. It was bucketing it down; the caravan site looked as if it had been hit by a mud slide; and we each needed two cardigans, a cagoule, thermal gloves and a balaclava to make it down to the seafront without contracting hypothermia. By the traditional Malayalam calendar, its Thulavarsham (the rain in Thulam) that is bucketing from the skies over Kerala, south interior Karnataka, Rayalaseema and Tamil Nadu. The rain was bucketing down hard and showed no sign of letting up. Synonyms rain heavily, rain cats and dogs, rain hard, pour, pelt, lash, teem, stream, tip, beat, sheet 2with adverbial of direction (of a vehicle) move quickly and jerkily. 〈非正式〉（车辆）快速颠簸着行驶 the car came bucketing out of a side road 小汽车颠簸着从边上一条路冲了出来。 Example sentencesExamples The Cuban driver swung out of town, and the bus bucketed along the narrow muddy road. So I held on to the string, and the whistle continued and the little train bucketed along like a mad thing till I was told to let go. That was the sign on the vestibule of the car we had just entered on the Oslo-Bergen express, bucketing across the snowy mountains of Norway. In the far off distance, a single vehicle was bucketing along the road, a brown cloud of dust boiling up behind it. Jonathan Raban has become our Tocqueville, our Crevecoeur, as he has roamed South and West, riding a Mississippi raft, following railroad lines, and bucketing across the prairie and the plains in his old car. Synonyms speed, hurry, race, run, sprint, dash, bolt, dart, rush, hasten, hurtle, career, streak, shoot, whizz, zoom, go like lightning, go hell for leather, spank along, bowl along, rattle along, whirl, whoosh, buzz, swoop, flash, blast, charge, stampede, gallop, sweep, hare, fly, wing, scurry, scud, scutter, scramble Phrases tip (or drop or turn) the bucket on informal Make damaging revelations about (someone or something) a corporate whistle-blower wanting to tip the bucket on an unscrupulous employer Example sentencesExamples They'd really tip the bucket on him now. I will not miss the opportunity to speak on a first reading motion again and to tip the bucket on Liberal Party crooks. Shirley was genuine, not one of the loudmouths who tip the bucket on the union. The incident made me want to tip the bucket on this kind of behaviour. I'm not going to tip the bucket on anyone. Let us not tip the bucket on a nation when we ourselves have been guilty of exactly the same type of approach to a problem. She seems to know we're going to tip the bucket on her meal ticket. They decided to tip the bucket on the bank's star planner. He won't be answering to any inquiries when he tips the bucket on scandal, skulduggery, or just general incompetence. He has always been prepared to tip the bucket on somebody who is down. Derivatives bucketful nounPlural bucketfuls ˈbʌkɪtfʊl Everybody knows they are there and I went down with a small net the other day and came back with three bucketfuls. Example sentencesExamples They are also rich in cockles and for generations local people have gathered small bucketfuls of the shellfish to eat. Meanwhile, there is one hardy annual which is always guaranteed to bloom, bringing with it colour and a bucketfuls of pizazz. Those qualities were in evidence by the bucketful yesterday as free-running Heriot's won the game and the title with the combination of panache and style which has become their hallmark. It teeters on the cusp of the Mediterranean, offering endless vistas of blue-green sea, bucketfuls of fresh air, and crumbling, salty buildings of the old town that still manage to retain their elegance. Origin Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French buquet 'tub, pail', perhaps from Old English būc 'belly, pitcher'. Rhymes Nantucket, tucket noun.1 phr. Definition of bucket in US English: bucket nounˈbəkətˈbəkət 1A roughly cylindrical open container, typically made of metal or plastic, with a handle, used to hold and carry liquids or other material. 桶，水桶，吊桶 Example sentencesExamples Transport the materials in a plastic bucket or pail to protect the pesticide container. These can be clay or plastic flower pots, buckets, milk or juice containers, or any similar container that holds a half gallon of water or so. After he'd checked out the next morning he called the police on a payphone and told them he'd seen a boy out by the fields carrying a bucket and a packet of matches. If you do not feel comfortable about handling toads, a plastic bucket or similar container can be placed over the animal until someone else can assist. The beans are poured from the buckets into smaller metal bins, and pickers are paid based on the number of bins they fill. Women roll barrels and carry buckets containing materials needed for the construction of a reservoir. Students used buckets and bottles to carry water from a local stream to highlight the lack of clean water in the developing world. Subsistence-netters use small boats to gather the fish and bring them to the shore while others wade into the water to collect fish in buckets and plastic bags. We talked and examined the barrels and plastic buckets filled with fish, crabs and shiny squid. Enterprising youngsters collected the petrol in buckets and plastic cool-drink bottles before taking it away to their homes. Separate plastic buckets carry the right and left harnesses. They would get up at five o'clock in the morning to milk 45 head of cattle with bucket-style milkers, and then carry the buckets to the milk coolers. His attention wandered to the thin, almost rat-like man stepping up to the teller carrying a large metal bucket. Almost all containers - buckets, barrels, tanks - were made by coopers from various woods. Requirements: tin buckets, plastic bags containing sufficient sand to half-fill each receptacle He still dumps the milk in buckets and carries the buckets to the milk tank. Wolf came back, carrying a bright red plastic bucket with a white handle. They give your child a Playstation when you bought theirs a plastic bucket and spade. Sections of bamboo or plastic buckets are used to carry water from nearby streams for cooking and washing. The highway, right from Chennai, is full of trucks and vans from all over India, carrying everything from medicines to food to plastic buckets. Synonyms pail, scuttle, can, tub, pitcher, vessel 1.1 The contents of a bucket or the amount it can contain. 一桶的量 she emptied a bucket of water over them 她往他们身上倒了一桶水。 Example sentencesExamples He's too lazy to use a bucket of soapy water and a broom. We either throw them into bath tubs full of water, or drag them under a shower, or dump a bucket of water on them. He then asked for a bucket of water and while inside the house grabbed the woman by the wrist and forced her to hand over £120 she was holding, causing bruising to her wrist. A bucket of soapy water, 7 bar towels and 2 rolls of paper towels later, the task was done. I bet you could get a bucket of builders’ sand and mix it with oil to get the same effect. And by the time she got to Vidya, a college student standing at a paan-bidi shop also saw what happened and rushed forward with a bucket of water. The happy couple had perched an enormous bucket of popcorn next to them, and as Hugo pirouetted into his seat, he managed to knock over the entire thing. Later, the bucket of soothing buttermilk was delivered. She pointed to the counter where we kept the sugar, salt, anything she might have used as a seasoning, and the big bucket of well water we drank from. If, by any chance, you're in a dilemma about what dessert to serve after you've eaten your freedom fries, you may wish to consider a bucket of Star Spangled Ice Cream. So I bought us a large bucket of popcorn, two hot dogs, two patties, a coconut water for me, a soda for her, and two Nestle Crunch bars. Somebody should throw a bucket of water on them. ‘She even put my clothes and shoes in a bucket of water to prevent me from going out,’ he said, laughing. When I went to Washington at Christmas I brought with me, at my sister's request, a giant bucket of Maltesers, and we sat and ate them, one after another, for hours. Use a small amount of Kerosene in a bucket of water for a shiny finish rather than detergent. You just grab a big bucket of buttered popcorn, sit back and watch. Soak the roots in a bucket of water for a couple of hours before planting if they are dry or if the stems seem shrivelled, then trim any damaged roots and cut back very long ones to about 30 cm. If they answer ‘incorrectly,’ they get drenched by the bucket of water suspended from a stepladder above them. One shot captures him pouring a bucket of money over his head. Another 100 people, each armed with a bucket of wax, then spent the morning preparing the foam and fibreglass super board. 1.2bucketsinformal Large quantities of liquid, typically rain or tears. 〈非正式〉大量液体（尤指雨水或眼泪） I wept buckets 我泪如泉涌。 Example sentencesExamples I've lost gallons of sweat and buckets of blood all for you. Despite the heavens opening and depositing buckets of rain a few times this weekend, the festival has been hugely successful. Europeans come to the New World, Europeans buy big operations, Europeans lose buckets of money. Chances are, you've already got buckets of MP3 files on your computer. The company has lost buckets of money over the last year or so, and was forced to implement a survival plan, the most notable element of which was a £22m rights issue. If it's subjective, biased, bad reporting people want, they can find that in buckets on the Net. Stores in London and Manchester we visited were selling them by the bucket: two London locations had sold out their stock entirely. Synonyms floods, gallons, pints, oceans 1.3Basketball informal A basket. Example sentencesExamples In the final 18 seconds, he blocked two shots, including a potential tying bucket by Aaron McKie. Even worse, firing off a jump shot is no guarantee of making a bucket, even if you're not covered. Did anybody catch Tim Tom's game clinching bucket against the Sixers in over-time? Trenton Hassell banked home a trey for the game winning bucket with the score knotted at 100 and just one tick left on the shot clock. If they need 2 or 3 buckets to tie the game with less than a minute left, they'll still take far too much time to get a play going. 1.4 A compartment on the outer edge of a waterwheel. （水车的）戽斗 Example sentencesExamples The wheel has 60 buckets each which can hold 200 lb water. Too much water will make the buckets unstable and they may tip over. Every 60 seconds, a ball bearing drops from the left bucket on the channel to the waterwheel. Water pours into the top bucket at a steady rate and gives the system energy while water leaks out of each bucket at a steady rate and removes energy from the system. A wooden or metal wheel with paddles or buckets of some kind are attached to the outside so that when set in a watercourse it will rotate as a result of pressure from the movement of the water. 1.5 The scoop of a dredger or grain elevator. （挖掘机的）铲斗；（谷物升运器的）勺斗 Example sentencesExamples As the belt with the buckets was lowered into the hold of a ship, the buckets would scoop up the grain and hoist it up into the structure where it was dropped into tall bins. Small buckets or scoops are fixed to the belts at regular intervals and these carry the grain from the elevator bottom to the top. The capacity depends upon width of buckets, spacing and belt speed. Elevators Inside the leg was a continuous belt on which small trapezoidal buckets were fastened, designed to carry grain to the elevator cupola where it was distributed to assigned bins through a spout operated by a manual guidance system in the driveway. He then placed the buckets closer together and was then able to achieve 1800 or 2000 bushels an hour. The grain would be lifted up in buckets attached to a conveyor belt to the top of the elevator and then distributed into storage bins by a movable spout. 1.6 A scoop attached to the front of a loader, digger, or tractor. （装卸设备、挖掘机、拖拉机等前面安装的）挖斗；铲斗 Example sentencesExamples He was crushed to death when a loader bucket fell down a shaft on him. An attachable implement such as a loader bucket is attached to the actuator. This company also makes use of quick couplers on its loaders, so the bucket can quickly be attached or removed from the loader. Of course, buckets were designed to scoop dirt, not wreck structures or collect and hoist the gangly debris. It has a small bucket on the front and hoe on the back, with an arm that lays over to drop the center of gravity for travel. His arm was crushed by a large bucket on a digger. Increasingly, that's likely to require an attachment other than a bucket. Without it, the job would require an entire day and five laborers using a skid-steer loader with a bucket. An ambulance spokesman told how the man was working in an eight-foot deep trench fitting pipes when a digger bucket fell on him. So he called his dad who brought up the tractor, and he got into the digger bucket and they maneuvered it up high into the tree and rescued her. It was just adapted for the removal of trees by attaching the bucket to the rear. Other attachments may include grading buckets, hydraulic breakers, plate compactors, augers, or rippers. Besides demolition, BROKK machines could also remove debris with a bucket attachment. Usually, however, the most common miniexcavator attachments are buckets of varying sizes, breakers, and augers. Tethers were attached to the bucket and backhoe of the Bobcat while others were secured to the machine itself. A full investigation has been launched after a workman suffered severe arm injuries when he was crushed by a bucket on a digger at a recycling centre. I started with an old bucket from a front-end loader and removed the teeth and the grapple fork. It has a hydraulic PTO and can directly power a four-in-one bucket and several attachments. You can use this attachment with a wide bucket to dig. The crash investigator said one of the things he was trying to ascertain was the position of the tractor bucket at the time of the fatal crash earlier this month. 2Computing A unit of data that can be transferred from secondary storage in a single operation. 〔计算机〕存储桶 Example sentencesExamples However, it begins to fall apart if presentational elements do not fall easily into the predetermined buckets for each archetype. This selects buckets for redistributing data between nodes in a parallel database in the incremental mode. The Kademlia distributed hash table goes further and orders the nodes in the bucket in terms of recorded uptime. Most hashes start small and dynamically resize over time as the lists of the buckets get too long. These caches can be thought of as simple hardware hash tables with fixed size buckets and no chaining, as shown in Figure 1. verbˈbəkətˈbəkət [no object]informal 1it buckets", "it is bucketing, etc.British Rain heavily. it was still bucketing down 天还在下大雨。 Example sentencesExamples But with the rain bucketing down overnight and throughout the morning and early afternoon, there was little option but to abandon the remainder of the tournament. Its been bucketing it down in these parts for the last few days. It was very dark and bucketing down with rain when I had my first chance to drive the car a highly important outing to Burger King drive-thru. Unfortunately we had reckoned without the Texas weather, which decided to bucket down with rain all morning. Typical of the kind of weather we've been having this summer, the rain was bucketing down. It was a wash out last year because of the weather, it absolutely bucketed it out of the sky. Not a single ray of sunlight could be seen, the dusty blue-grey sky was covered in clouds the colour of charcoal, rain was bucketing down and a flash of lightning dashed across the sky. He thought about walking to the chemist but the rain was still bucketing down. But when we went to Norway we arrived wearing shorts and T-shirts to find it bucketing down with rain. The rain was bucketing down hard and showed no sign of letting up. It was bucketing it down; the caravan site looked as if it had been hit by a mud slide; and we each needed two cardigans, a cagoule, thermal gloves and a balaclava to make it down to the seafront without contracting hypothermia. In one hour, between midnight and 1am, almost one inch of rain bucketed down on the city. By the time the early night rain was bucketing down on the pitch, Celtic were actually home and dry, spraying the ball around and running down the clock for a slender win, but one more victory nonetheless. On Saturday night last it bucketed rain once again but a dry Sunday allowed Markievicz Park in Sligo to dry off and the pitch was in great shape for the meeting of Corofin and Eastern Gaels in the first round of the Connacht Club S.F.C. I just hope the sky clears a bit; it's very cloudy and been bucketing it down this afternoon. Sadly, the Full Circle weather system, having periodically bucketed on us in Africa, immediately finds us in Palau, and gleefully hurls stair-rods of rain on all and sundry for our first couple of days. ‘We were on our way into Leeds at around 12.30 pm and it was bucketing it down, buses were having to drive into the middle of The Headrow to keep out of the water,’ he said. The weather was lovely - which was great because it bucketed rain on Thurady and Saturday. By the traditional Malayalam calendar, its Thulavarsham (the rain in Thulam) that is bucketing from the skies over Kerala, south interior Karnataka, Rayalaseema and Tamil Nadu. The more it bucketed, the more she beamed, perhaps hoping that viewers would admire her gleaming dentistry long enough for play to resume on Centre Court. Synonyms rain heavily, rain cats and dogs, rain hard, pour, pelt, lash, teem, stream, tip, beat, sheet 2with adverbial of direction (of a vehicle) move quickly and jerkily. 〈非正式〉（车辆）快速颠簸着行驶 the car came bucketing out of a side road 小汽车颠簸着从边上一条路冲了出来。 Example sentencesExamples So I held on to the string, and the whistle continued and the little train bucketed along like a mad thing till I was told to let go. Jonathan Raban has become our Tocqueville, our Crevecoeur, as he has roamed South and West, riding a Mississippi raft, following railroad lines, and bucketing across the prairie and the plains in his old car. That was the sign on the vestibule of the car we had just entered on the Oslo-Bergen express, bucketing across the snowy mountains of Norway. In the far off distance, a single vehicle was bucketing along the road, a brown cloud of dust boiling up behind it. The Cuban driver swung out of town, and the bus bucketed along the narrow muddy road. Synonyms speed, hurry, race, run, sprint, dash, bolt, dart, rush, hasten, hurtle, career, streak, shoot, whizz, zoom, go like lightning, go hell for leather, spank along, bowl along, rattle along, whirl, whoosh, buzz, swoop, flash, blast, charge, stampede, gallop, sweep, hare, fly, wing, scurry, scud, scutter, scramble Origin Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French buquet ‘tub, pail’, perhaps from Old English būc ‘belly, pitcher’.
随便看	plonking plonkingly plonko plonk oneself plonk oneself plonk oneself down plonkos plonks plook plookier plookiest plookit plooky ploot ploot plooty plop plop oneself plop oneself down plop oneself down plopped plopping plops plore ploshchadka