Bucket

  

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Bucket

Definition: Bucket

Bucket

Noun

1. A roughly cylindrical that is vessel open at the top.

2. The quantity contained in a bucket.

Verb

1. Put into a bucket.

2. Carry in a bucket.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bucket" was first used: 1248. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Bucket

DomainDefinition

Mechanical Engineering

A container of a bucket elevator. . Source: European Union. (references)

Bible

Bucket a vessel to draw water with (Isa. 40:15); used figuratively, probably, of a numerous issue (Num. 24:7). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.

Computing

In direct acces storage a -- is a unit of storage as distinct from the data contained in the unit. The data is accessed by reference to the bucket in which it is stored. Source: European Union. (references)

Food & Agriculture

In a plough, the group of the parts associated with cutting, lifting and turning the furrow slice. Source: European Union. (references)

Math

An area of storage where items with a common property are stored. Typically tree data structures and sort algorithms use many buckets, one for each group of items. Usually buckets are kept on disk. (references)

Metallurgy

A charging device on old blast furnaces. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

A. See:bailer; calyx. b. Tubular container equipped with auger or other-type cutting edges used to make borings in earthy or soft formation by rotary methods c. An open-top can, equipped with a bail, used to hoist broken rock or water and to lower supplies and equipment to workers in a mine shaft or other underground opening d. One of the conveying units on a bucket conveyor that lifts the material from a boot or bin when passing over the lower sprocket and is dumped on passing over the upper sprocket. The bucket is often made of perforated metal so that water entrapped will pass through the perforations and back to the boot e. A part of an excavator that digs, lifts, and carries dirt f. The dipper or scoop at the end of the arm of a bucket dredg. (references)

Slang in 1811

BUCKET. To kick the bucket; to die. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Bucket

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In computing, the term bucket can have several meanings. It is used both as a live metaphor, and as a generally accepted technical term in some specialised areas. A bucket is most commonly a type of data buffer or a type of document.

Features of a bucket

Various usages relate to different features. There is no usage that is consistent with every one of these features.

Types of bucket

Bit bucket

This is a humourous but very common phrase. Something goes into the bit bucket when it is deleted, generally irreversibly and quite often wrongly, such as files or emails that just disappear.

It has been commonly suggested that this usage dates from the days when punched cards and/or punched tape were common. Card and paper-tape punches each had a receptacle for the 'chips' punched from the cards or tape to create the holes (rectangular in a card, round in a paper tape), which often looked like a bucket and was known by this name. By analogy it was jokingly suggested that the CPU, which in those days was an equipment rack of similar size to a large peripheral unit, contained a similar receptacle for lost data.

Documentation bucket

A bucket is a document of no definite size to which information of interest is added with no structure. Many software packages have a README file which is a bucket containing the very latest information. In IBM culture, such a file is known as a bucket and is opened for critical fixes and fix packages.

Bucket (buffer)

Buffers known as buckets are used:

Other usages

The elements of a hash table are known as buckets.

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Synonyms: Bucket

Synonyms: bucketful (n), pail (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Bucket

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Death

Pay the debt to nature, shuffle off this mortal coil, take one's last sleep; go the way of all flesh; hand in one's checks, pass in one's checks, hand in one's chips, pass in one's chips; join the greater number, join the majority; come to dust, turn to dust; cross the Stygian ferry, cross the bar; go to one's long account, go to one's last home, go to Davy Jones's locker, go to the wall; receive one's death warrant, make one's will, step out, die a natural death, go out like the snuff of a candle; come to an untimely end; catch one's death; go off the hooks, kick the bucket, buy the farm, hop the twig, turn up one's toes; die a violent death. (be killed).

Insulation, Fire extinction

Wet blanket; fire extinguisher, soda and acid extinguisher, dry chemical extinguisher, CO-two extinguisher, carbon tetrachloride, foam; sprinklers, automatic sprinkler system; fire bucket, sand bucket.

Extincteur; fire annihilator; amianth, amianthus; earth-flax, mountain-flax; asbestos; fireman, fire fighter, fire eater, fire department, fire brigade, engine company; pumper, fire truck, hook and ladder, aerial ladder, bucket; fire hose, fire hydrant.

Intention

Gaming house, gambling house, betting house; bucket shop; gambling joint; totalizator, totalizer; hell; betting ring; dice, dice box.

Inutility

Seek after impossibilities, strive after impossibilities; use vain efforts, labor in vain, roll the stone of Sisyphus, beat the air, lash the waves, battre l'eau avec un baton, donner un coup d'epee dans l'eau, fish in the air, milk the ram, drop a bucket into an empty well, sow the sand; bay the moon; preach to the winds, speak to the winds; whistle jigs to a milestone; kick against the pricks, se battre contre des moulins; lock the stable door when the steed is stolen, lock the barn door after the horse is stolen; (too late);seek after impossibilities, strive after impossibilities; use vain efforts, labor in vain, roll the stone of Sisyphus, beat the air, lash the waves, battre l'eau avec un baton, donner un coup d'epee dans l'eau, fish in the air, milk the ram, drop a bucket into an empty well, sow the sand; bay the moon; preach to the winds, speak to the winds; whistle jigs to a milestone; kick against the pricks, se battre contre des moulins; lock the stable door when the steed is stolen, lock the barn door after the horse is stolen; (too late); hold a farthing candle to the sun; cast pearls before swine; (waste); carry coals to Newcastle; (redundancy); wash a blackamoor white; (impossible).

Receptacle

Cistern; (store); vat, caldron, barrel, cask, drum, puncheon, keg, rundlet, tun, butt, cag, firkin, kilderkin, carboy, amphora, bottle, jar, decanter, ewer, cruse, caraffe, crock, kit, canteen, flagon; demijohn; flask, flasket; stoup, noggin, vial, phial, cruet, caster; urn, epergne, salver, patella, tazza, patera; pig gin, big gin; tyg, nipperkin, pocket pistol; tub, bucket, pail, skeel, pot, tankard, jug, pitcher, mug, pipkin; galipot, gallipot; matrass, receiver, retort, alembic, bolthead, capsule, can, kettle; bowl, basin, jorum, punch bowl, cup, goblet, chalice, tumbler, glass, rummer, horn, saucepan, skillet, posnet, tureen.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Bucket

English words defined with "bucket": backhoe, Bailer, bucket shop, bucketful, Butterfly valvecannikin, clamshell, Cuvettedredging bucketFire bucketgrappleHudgekibblelag, Lifting pumpPump handle, Pump rodSand pump, scoop, scoop shovel, Sludger, Soleplate, staveWatering pot, wine bucket, wine cooler. (references)
Specialty definitions using "bucket": BUCKET CHUCKER, bucket elevator belt, bucket line, BUCKET OPERATOR, bucket rig, bucket sheave, bucket sort, bucket temperature, bucket tripper, BUCKET TURNERcentrifugal discharge elevator bucket, chain bucket dredger, chain bucket loaderdouble-leg bucket elevator, drag bucket, dumping bucketelevator bucketgrab bucket, gravity-discharge conveyor-elevator buckethash bucketmud bucketore-bridge bucketscraper bucket, skip bucket, slat bucket, SLUSH BUCKET, supercapacity bucket elevator, supercapacity elevator bucket. (references)
Etymologies containing "bucket": Skeed. (references)

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Modern Usage: Bucket

DomainUsage

Screenplays

It's our time down here! That's all over once we go up Troy's bucket! (Goonies; writing credit: Chris Columbus)

One bucket for urine, one for feces and one for vomitus (Trainspotting; writing credit: John Hodge. Based on the novel by Irvine Welsh.)

Mother pus bucket! (Ghost Busters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd; Harold Ramis)

Yesthat would be as if he had a bucket of chicken, every day, for 500 years (Hamburger... The Motion Picture; writing credit: Donald Ross)

Somebody get a bucket for my crocodile tears (Taina; writing credit: Fracaswell Hyman)

Lyrics

Love the kind you clean up with a mop and bucket (The Bad Touch; performing artist: Bloodhound Gang)

Don't forget your bucket (Ice Machine In The Desert; performing artist: Brave Combo)

Every day the bucket goes to the well, (I SHOT THE SHERIFF; performing artist: Eric Clapton)

The singer couldn't carry a tune in a bucket. (Ten Rounds With Jose Cuervo; performing artist: TRACY BYRD)

Clever

Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water. (references; author: Swedish Proverb)

Movie/TV Titles

A Bucket of Blood (1959)

The Olden Oaken Bucket (1941)

Bucket of Blood (1934)

The Old Hokum Bucket (1931)

Fuzz Bucket (1986)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Bucket

DomainTitle

Books

  • Bucket Nut (reference)

  • Bucket of Tongues (reference)

  • Card Sharps and Bucket Shops (reference)

  • Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator: The Further Adventures of Charlie Bucket and Willy Wonka, Chocolate-Maker Extraordinary (reference)

  • Life in a Bucket of Soil (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • A Bucket of Blood (reference)

  • The Terror / Bucket of Blood (reference)

  • Roger Corman Retrospective (Vol. 1)- Attack Of The Giant Leeches/The Wasp Woman/A Bucket Of Blood (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Bucket

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Photo Album: Bucket

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Pictured is a mother with children standing in a farm setting on a summer day. One of the girls is holding a bucket, ready to pick berries. These people are members of a Mormon family who are presently being studied for their low cancer death rate. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Aedes aegypti mosquito breeding site. Bucket. Credit: CDC.

Bucket and tire in shaded area near home. Choice potential mosquito breeding site. Credit: CDC.

Carrying the fire bucket for cold fingers and frozen fountain pens Level party of William Gibson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

The Greenhill/East Timbalier dredging operation -- bucket dredge scooping material from channel which will be sent by pipe to the marsh creation site. Credit: America's Coastlines.

A bucket load of fish ready for measuring and weighing. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

A 500-lb bucket of yellow-fin tuna being offloaded from fishing vessel to a receiving trough for further processing. F&WL 12,579. Credit: Fisheries.

A bucket full of bait mullet caught by net casting. Credit: Fisheries.

A bucket full of quahogs, Mercenaria mercenaria. Quahogs feed by filtering plankton from the water, pumping up to a gallon per hour or more, depending on temperature. This feeding activity helps to improve water quality and clarity in Narragansett Bay and is an important ecological link between the Bay's water column and its benthic, or bottom-dwelling community. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Rock and gravel are delivered to the restoration site. The rock is placed with a bucket and pay-loader. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Bucket
 

"Blue Bucket" by Sten E. Moe
Commentary: "A blue bucket on the asphalt.Please send URL if used."
"Retired Bucket" by Lynn Cummings
Commentary: "Rusty old bucket, found in field near a midwest homestead."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Bucket".

PlayCaption
Water splashing from a bucket onto the sidewalk.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Bucket

AuthorQuotation

Kiis

When you go to Church, you should actively seek something. You must not go like an empty bucket, waiting passively to be filled.

Swedish Proverb

Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.

W. R. Alger

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Bucket

AuthorDateQuotation

John Locke

1690

Grants, promises, and oaths, are bonds that hold the Almighty: whatever some flatterers say to princes of the world, who all together, with all their people joined to them, are, in comparison of the great God, but as a drop of the bucket, or a dust on the balance, inconsiderable, nothing! (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Bucket

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

The man gave her the bucket.

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Ma chuckled lightly and scrounged the clothes in and out of the bucket.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Bucket

SubjectTopicQuote

Human Rights

Vietnam

They are given one small bowl of rice for lunch and dinner and a single bucket of water each day. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

SALAMANDER, n. Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of which we have an account having been seen in Carcassonne by the Abbe Belloc, who exorcised it with a bucket of holy water.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Bucket

"Bucket" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.90% of the time. "Bucket" is used about 997 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)99.9%9967,382
Noun (proper)0.1%1339,140
                    Total100.00%997N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Bucket

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "bucket".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
DalmanuthaN/ABiblical

A bucket

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Expression: Bucket

Expressions using "bucket": a drop in a bucket air pump bucket bit bucket bucket about bucket along bucket of water bucket seat bucket shop dinner bucket dredging bucket fire bucket hash bucket ice bucket kick the bucket Lance bucket latrine bucket plunger bucket refuse bucket sand bucket slush bucket To kick the bucket water bucket weigh bucket weighing bucket wine bucket. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "bucket": bucket-and-spade, bucket-base, bucket-brigade, bucket-full, bucket-reared, bucket-rearing, bucket-shaped, bucket-shop, bucket-smooth, bucket-stepped, bucket-type.

Ending with "bucket": ice-bucket.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bucket

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bucket hat

462

excavator bucket

34

bucket

350

champagne bucket

30

bucket truck

298

bucket suck

29

bucket in pea two

216

wine bucket

29

bucket seat

197

paint bucket

28

ice bucket

182

bucket ford t

26

bucket t

176

bucket elliot truck

25

plastic bucket

80

wooden bucket

25

bucket boss

79

23 t bucket

24

galvanized bucket

73

5 gallon bucket

24

bucket elevator

56

bucket seat cover

24

mop bucket

56

gucci bucket hat

22

used bucket truck

44

bucket tin

22

metal bucket

44

2 bucket in pea

21

bucket cum

43

reversible bucket hat

21

bucket shop

39

racing bucket seat

21

bucket heated

38

truck bucket seat

21

t bucket kit

38

1923 bucket t

21

t bucket for sale

38

loader bucket

20

backhoe bucket

34

water bucket

19
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Bucket

Language Translations for "bucket"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

vedër (pail), rrangallë (dump, rattletrap, write off), pallaskë (flapper), mbush me kovë, kovë ekskavatori (scoop), kovë (bail, bin, pail, skip). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

دلو (Aquarius), ‏مقدار كبير (mass, ream, sight, surfeit, swag), ‏سطل (pail), ‏إنطلق بالفرس, ‏رفع بدلو, ‏دلو (bail, pail). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

кофа (bowk, corf, grab, pail, pailful), греба вода с кофа, нося вода с кофа, бутало (forcer, piston, sucker), перка (brace and bit, fin, flapper, paddle, palm, prop, propeller, vane), изтощавам (crock, deplete, distress, do in, emaciate, exhaust, extend, fag, farm out, fatigue, frazzle, gruel, impoverish, kill, leech, overcrop, overwork, play out, poop, prostrate, pump, pump out, punish, rack, reduce, run down, sew up, spend, tire out, tucker, waste), изливам се като из ведро (lash down), движа се неравномерно. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(basket), 水桶 , (Barrel, barrels, BBL, Pail). (various references)

   

Czech

  

vìdro (pail, tub). (various references)

   

Danish

  

spand (pail). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

emmer (pail). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

sitelo (pail). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

spann (pail). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

سطل (Bail, Kit, Pail), دلو (Pail). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

ämpäri (pail). (various references)

   

French

  

seau (draw bucket), godet. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

amer (pail). (various references)

   

German

  

eimer (bin, buckets, can, pail, pailful, pails), schaufel (blade, dustpan, fan, paddle, palm, scoop, scoopful, shovel, spade, vane), kübel (container, Crapper, latrine bucket, pail, tub, tubs). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κουβάς (pail). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

דלי (pail). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vödör (kibble, noria scoop, pail). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

ember (pail). (various references)

   

Irish

  

buicéad (pail). (various references)

   

Italian

  

secchio (bucketful, pail), secchia (pail), benna (grab). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

バイヤー法 (all-terrain vehicle, baccalaureat, bacteria, bacteriophage, Bagdad, baggy look, bagpipe, baguette, basilisk, bass, bassoon, bath, baumkuchen, Bayer process, bazaar, bilingual, bind, binder, binding, bounce, bound, bow side, budget, bug, bug fix, bug list, bug report, bugbear, buggy, bus, by-line, holidays, honey wagon, pail, sand buggy, surf clam, vacation, vacuum, vacuum car, vacuum cleaner, vagabond, vagina), 手桶 (pail), . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

おけ, バケツ (pail), ておけ (pail). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

물통 (Cistern). (various references)

   

Malay

  

ember (pail). (various references)

   

Manx

  

cruick [f] (pail), cruick (pail). (various references)

   

Maya

  

chooy. (various references)

   

Mohawk

  

kanàtsyonk. (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

bøtte, spann. (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

hèmchi (pail), hèmber (pail), èmer (pail). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ucketbay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

balde (bailer, pail, scuttle, tub), caçamba (cart, pail). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

vadrã (kit, pail, tub), se grãbi (bundle, fly, gallop, get jerk, hasten, hurry, make haste, rush, speed, spur, whisk along), piston (key-bugle, piston), hârdãu (tub), goni fãrã cruţare, gãleatã (bucketful, kit, pail, pailful), cupa excavatorului (dipper), cãuş (dipper, scoop), cãlãri prost. (various references)

   

Romansch

  

sadella. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ковш (bail, dipper, grab, ladle, scoop, shovel, trough), группировать блок, ведро (pail), лопатка (blade, scapula, scapulae, shoulder blade, shoulder-blade, skimmer, spade-bone, trowel, vane), бадья (bowk, kettle, kibble, pail, tub). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

bucaid (a pustule), cuman (coggie, milking pail, pail), cuinneag (a pail, pail, pitcher). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

vedro (brightly, pail), kofa (canikin, cannikin, hod, pail), kanta (can, pail). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cubo (block, bucketful, cube, hub, nave, pail, pailful, tub), balde (for free, for nothing, free of charge, pail, tub). (various references)

   

Sranan

  

emre (pail), embre (pail). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

hink (bowk, pail, pailful), spann (pail, pailful, pair, span, spun, team). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ใบเครื่องจักร, ใส่ถัง, ถัง. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kova (Aquarius, pail, skip). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

черпати (ladle, scoop), черпак (dipper, grab, ladle, scoop), колиска (cradle), відро (bail, pail), налягати (cinch, yank), мчати (career, course, dash, fly, hurtle, post, race, sail, scud, shoot ahead, shove along, tear along, waft, whiz, whizz, whoosh), поршень насоса. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

thùng (box, cask, peck, tank), súng, ngoẻo. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

bwced (pail). (various references)

   

Yucatec

  

ch'ooy (pail). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Bucket

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

adamae, ama, amarum, amas, aqualis. (various references)

Medieval Latin700-1500

galleta. (various references)

Old French900-1400

baille. (various references)

Anglo-Norman1100-1600

buquet. (various references)

Middle Dutch1100-1500

schope. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Bucket

LanguageDateSourceIsaiah Chapter 40, Verse 15
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintEi panta ta eqnh wV stagwn apo kadou kai wV roph zugou elogisqhsan kai wV sieloV logisqhsontai
Latin405VulgateEcce gentes quasi stilla situlae et quasi momentum staterae reputatae sunt ecce insulae quasi pulvis exiguus
Middle English1395WyclifLo! Jentiles as a drope of a boket, and as moment of a balaunce ben holden; lo! iles as litil pouder,
Jacobean English1611King JamesBehold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Victorian English1833WebsterBehold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Basic English1964OgdenSee, the nations are to him like a drop hanging from a bucket, and like the small dust in the scales: he takes up the islands like small dust.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Bucket

LanguageIsaiah Chapter 40, Verse 15
CebuanoAnia karon, ang mga nasud mahisama sa usa ka tinulo sa timba, ug naisip ingon sa fino nga abug sa timbangan: ania karon, siya nagapunit sa mga pulo ingon sa usa ka diyutay nga butang.
CroatianGle, narodi su kao kap iz vjedra, vrijede kao prah na tezulji. Otoci, gle, lebde poput truna!
DanishSe, som Dråbe på Spand er Folkene, at regne som Fnug på Vægt, som et Gran vejer fjerne Strande.
DutchZiet, de volken zijn geacht als een druppel van een emmer, en als een stofje van de weegschaal; ziet, Hij werpt de eilanden henen als dun stof!
FinnishKatso, kansakunnat ovat kuin pisara vesisangon uurteessa, ovat kuin tomuhiukkanen vaa`assa. Katso, merensaaret hän nostaa kuin hiekkajyvän.
FrenchVoici, les nations sont comme une goutte d`un seau, Elles sont comme de la poussière sur une balance; Voici, les îles sont comme une fine poussière qui s`envole.
GermanSiehe, die Heiden sind geachtet wie ein Tropfen, so im Eimer bleibt, und wie ein Scherflein, so in der Waage bleibt. Siehe, die Inseln sind wie ein Stäublein.
Haitian CreoleGade! Devan Seyè a, nasyon yo tankou yon gout dlo nan yon bokit. Yo pa peze plis pase ti pousyè nan yon balans. Moun zile yo menm, yo tankou pousyè van ap pote ale!
HungarianÍm a népek, mint egy csöpp a vederben, és mint egy porszem a mérlegserpenyõben, olyanoknak tekintetnek; ímé a szigeteket mint kis port emeli föl!
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariBagi TUHAN bangsa-bangsa seperti setetes air dalam timba, seperti sebutir debu pada neraca; pulau-pulau sama ringannya dengan abu halus.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaBahwasanya segala bangsa dibilang-Nya seperti setitik air pada timba dan seperti sazarah lebu pada daun neraca: Bahwasanya dihamburkan-Nya segala pulau itu seperti duli yang lumat.
ItalianEcco, le nazioni son come una goccia da un secchio, contano come il pulviscolo sulla bilancia; ecco, le isole pesano quanto un granello di polvere.
MaoriNana, ko nga iwi, ano he pata wai i roto i te peere! ki ta te whakaaro he puehu ririki ratou i te pauna; nana, ko nga motu, maua ake e ia, he mea ririki rawa te rite.
RumanianIatq, neamurile sknt ca o picqturq de apq din vadrq, sknt ca praful pe o cumpqnq; El ridicq ostroavele ca un bob de nisip.
RussianчПФ ОБТПДЩ--ЛБЛ ЛБРМС ЙЪ ЧЕДТБ, Й УЮЙФБАФУС ЛБЛ РЩМЙОЛБ ОБ ЧЕУБИ. чПФ, ПУФТПЧБ ЛБЛ РПТПЫЙОЛХ РПДОЙНБЕФ пО.
SpanishHe aquí que las naciones son como una gota de agua que cae de un balde, y son estimados como una capa de polvo sobre la balanza. Él pesa las islas como si fuesen polvo menudo.
SwedishNej, folken äro att akta såsom en droppe ur ämbaret och såsom ett grand på vågskålen; se, havsländerna lyfter han såsom ett stoftkorn.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Bucket

Derivations

Words beginning with "bucket": bucketed, bucketful, bucketfuls, bucketing, buckets, bucketsful. (additional references)

Words ending with "bucket": gutbucket, trebucket. (additional references)

Words containing "bucket": gutbuckets, trebuckets. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Bucket" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: backet, Backett, becketti, beckettii, Bicket, boket, Bouckaert, bousket, Brucke, bruckit, Bucci, Bucetta, buchet, bucka, Buckden, Bucke, Buckett, buckey, Buckow, buket, Buketi, Bukht, Busket, fukkit, mucket. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Bucket"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "bucket" (pronounced bu"kut)
3-k u taftermarket, advocate, affricate, basket, Becket, biscuit, blanket, breadbasket, brisket, casket, certificate, circuit, cricket, hypermarket, delicate, docket, duplicate, etiquette, gasket, indelicate, intricate, jacket, junket, market, microcircuit, musket, Newmarket, packet, patriarchate, picket, pickpocket, pocket, premarket, racket, racquet, remarket, rocket, silicate, skyrocket, socket, sprocket, straitjacket, syndicate, thicket, ticket, tourniquet, trinket, triplicate, tunicate, upmarket, wastebasket, wicket.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Bucket

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-e-k-t-u"

-2 letters: beck, buck, bute, cube, cuke, cute, tube, tuck.

-3 letters: bet, but, cub, cue, cut, ecu, kue, tub, uke.

-4 letters: be, et, ut.

 Words containing the letters "b-c-e-k-t-u"
 

+1 letter: buckets.

 

+2 letters: bluetick, bucketed.

 

+3 letters: blueticks, bucketful, bucketing, buckteeth, buckwheat, gutbucket, trebucket, waterbuck.

 

+4 letters: bluejacket, bucketfuls, bucketsful, buckwheats, gutbuckets, trebuckets, turnbuckle, turtleback, waterbucks.

 

+5 letters: blockbuster, bluejackets, bucktoothed, quarterback, thumbsucker, thumbtacked, turnbuckles, turtlebacks, unbracketed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Sounds
10. Quotations: Familiar
11. Quotations: Historic
12. Quotations: Fiction
13. Quotations: Non-fiction
14. Usage Frequency
15. Names: Derived from
16. Expressions
17. Expressions: Internet
18. Translations: Modern
19. Translations: Ancient
20. Bible Trace
21. Derivations
22. Rhymes
23. Anagrams
24. Bibliography


  

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