BUCKETS | English Meaning, Definition, and Pronunciation

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Word: Bucket

Speech Type: Verb

Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling: ˈbʌkɪt
Dialects: British English
Definition:

rain heavily

Short Definition:

rain heavily

Examples:
  • it was still bucketing down
Definition:

(of a vehicle) move quickly and jerkily

Short Definition:

move quickly and jerkily

Examples:
  • the car came bucketing out of a side road

Word: Bucket

Speech Type: Noun

Etymology:

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

Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling: ˈbʌkɪt
Dialects: British English
Definition:

a roughly cylindrical open container with a handle, made of metal or plastic and used to hold and carry liquids

Short Definition:

cylindrical open container

Examples:
  • a bucket and spade
  • an ice bucket
Definition:

a unit of data that can be transferred from a backing store in a single operation.

Short Definition:

unit of data

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