| 单词 | bucket |
| 释义 | bucket (once / 634 pages) nv An open, round container with a handle is a bucket. You might take a bucket and shovel to the beach for making sand castles. Buckets are usually made of metal or plastic, and are typically used to carry liquids. A dairy farmer might catch milk in a metal bucket, announcing at the end of the morning, "I got six buckets of milk!" The expression "to kick the bucket" means to die — this particular meaning might stem from the French buquet, "balance," a beam that was used for hanging slaughtered animals. WORD FAMILYbucket: bucketed, bucketful, bucketing, buckets, bucketting+/bucketful: bucketfuls USAGE EXAMPLESAlso on his retirement bucket list: a boat tour of Crater Lake and an overnight stay at the park lodge. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) Wilson finished with a game-high 21 points after being held to two buckets in the first half. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) The fire department tweeted a photo of firefighters dousing the roof from a firetruck’s elevated bucket. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1n a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top Syn|Hypo|Hyper pail cannikin a wooden bucket dinner bucket, dinner paila pail in which a workman carries his lunch or dinner dredging bucketa bucket for lifting material from a channel or riverbed kibblean iron bucket used for hoisting in wells or mining slop jar, slop paila large pail used to receive waste water from a washbasin or chamber pot wine bucket, wine coolera bucket of ice used to chill a bottle of wine clamshell, grapplea dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam vessel an object used as a container (especially for liquids) 2n the quantity contained in a bucket Syn|Hyper bucketful containerful the quantity that a container will hold 3v put into a bucket Hyper lay, place, pose, position, put, set put into a certain place or abstract location 4v carry in a bucket Hyper carry, transport move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body |
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