Synonyms 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

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1. junkie

   a general term for a drug addict that has no control of their habit

   that bucket just tried to rip me off so they could get their fix

   Submitted by anonymous on May 18, 2021  

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "bucket":

   pail, seau, cube, basket, hub, block, network, agassiz, period, seal, shovel, dumpster

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1. Stephen Bomar:

   Although the Chinooks have been deployed, the Oregon Department of Forestry is currently at capacity with more than 40 overall aviation assets. We have been utilizing Blackhawk helicopters to assist in firefighting efforts since Governor Brown declared a state of emergency due to heightened wildfire weather conditions on August 19, we now have eight Blackhawks available, six dedicated to Bambi bucket water drop operations, and two available for search and rescue. We also currently have two UH-72 Lakotas assisting officials with fire mapping to keep track of the fires.

2. Joseph Anderson:

   More people are talking about a bucket list than ever before — the people who just want to do it once so they can say that they did it. But we still have an increase in people who want to learn the basics so they can be intermediate climbers, i don’t know if it’s because of Will Gadd’s ascent — it’s too early to tell — but that will shake out in the next year or two. But it’s been a big increase since last year, and all of a sudden it’s gotten really busy.

3. Pat Carroll:

   My desire before I kicked the bucket was to do a Disney film.

4. Charlie Smith:

   Other solutions have gained some traction, but it's a drop in the bucket compare to VPNs.

5. Safra Catz:

   That makes the appearance of a lower number (for the cloud business) even though money is actually coming in to another bucket, as this evens out I think we are going to start seeing cloud acceleration again that is very significant but I don't want to time that right now.