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# bucket

«bucket» in Mova's school dictionary: **an open round container with a handle for carrying water…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (bucket, buckets); verb (bucket — rain very hard, UK slang)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A bucket is an open round container with a handle for carrying water, sand or other things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bucket/#m1)

2) A bucket of something is as much as a bucket holds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bucket/#m2)

3) «Buckets» in speech means a lot: «it rained buckets». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bucket/#m3)

4) A bucket list is a list of things a person wants to do one day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bucket/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths: a container holding a volume; buckets of water filling a tank; things counted in buckets; total ÷ per bucket. In everyday life: bucket and spade at the beach, mopping the floor, a fire bucket. Phrases: «bucket and spade», «a drop in the bucket» (a tiny part), «bucket list», «rain buckets».

### examples

- A bucket holds 8 litres. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bucket/#x1)
- How many buckets fill a 40 litre tank? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bucket/#x2)
- She picked 3 buckets of berries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bucket/#x3)
- Each bucket has 25 shells. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bucket/#x4)
- We built a sandcastle with a bucket and spade. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bucket/#x5)
- He carried a bucket of water to the horses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bucket/#x6)
- It was raining buckets all day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bucket/#x7)
- The roof leaked, so we put a bucket under the drip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bucket/#x8)
- A large bucket was set before the puma directly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bucket/#x9)

### note

Countable: «a bucket». «Pail» is an older word for the same thing. Maths: often a unit of capacity: total ÷ per bucket = number of buckets. Trap: if the last bucket is not full you still need it — round up.

### In the corpora

- [A pelican's pouch scoops up about 10 litres of water, like a bucket, which it drains before swallowing the fish.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/374-ukraine-s-waters-danube-delta-pelicans-black-sea-dolphins-sturgeon-and-gobies/3/)
- ["Kicked the bucket" means died; it is a joking, informal phrase.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/1-death-polite-and-joking/9/)
- [Standing on chairs, buckets or furniture that wobble causes many falls at home, so use a proper step stool.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/2-balance-and-falling-well/22/)
- [Small animals can fall into a bucket of water and drown because they cannot climb the smooth sides.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe/5/)
- [A cover on a bucket or a stick leaning inside it lets small animals stay out or climb out.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bucket» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bucket/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.