Antonyms for bucket
ˈbʌk ɪtbuck·et

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1. bucketnoun

   Synonyms:
   pail, scoop, banger, jalopy, rustbucket, vane, blade

2. bucketnoun

   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.

   Synonyms:
   blade, vane, scoop, rustbucket, jalopy, pail, banger

3. bucketnoun

   To rain heavily.

   The horse drank a whole bucket of water.

   Synonyms:
   pail, vane, rustbucket, blade, jalopy, scoop, banger, chuck it down, piss down, rain cats and dogs

4. bucketnoun

   Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket.

   Synonyms:
   scoop, jalopy, blade, rustbucket, whizz, rocket, speed, shoot, hurtle, banger, vane, pail

5. bucketnoun

   An old car that is not in good working order.

   Synonyms:
   jalopy, scoop, blade, vane, rustbucket, pail, banger

6. bucketnoun

   The basket.

   The forward drove to the bucket.

   Synonyms:
   rustbucket, blade, vane, scoop, jalopy, pail, banger

7. bucketnoun

   A field goal.

   We can't keep giving up easy buckets.

   Synonyms:
   rustbucket, banger, pail, scoop, blade, jalopy, vane

8. bucketnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   banger, blade, jalopy, pail, scoop, rustbucket, vane

9. bucketnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   rustbucket, jalopy, blade, scoop, pail, banger, vane

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1. bucket, pailnoun

   a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top

   Synonyms:
   bucketful, pail, pailful

2. bucket, bucketfulverb

   the quantity contained in a bucket

   Synonyms:
   bucketful, pail

3. bucketverb

   put into a bucket

4. bucketverb

   carry in a bucket

How to use bucket in a sentence?

1. William Butler Yeats:

   Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.

2. Courtesy Loni James:

   Maybe someone’s not going to pick up a book about Egypt or Namibia or Tunisia. But maybe they would be intrigued by my dating story, and if they happen to learn these other things about this country during that dating story, then I consider that a huge bonus, i realize Egypt maybe is n’t on everybody’s bucket list, maybe Morocco is n’t, even Namibia. When I write about these places, I hope it builds a curiosity … I hope the stories make people laugh, dream and cross oceans to meet interesting people all over.

3. Sir Winston Churchill:

   We contend that for a Nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

4. George Orwell:

   Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

5. Red Cross:

   The child, who had been buried for about 80 hours, was found in a bucket wrapped in a blanket. She appeared dehydrated, and with no visible physical injuries.

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