bucket

«bucket» in Mova's judaism 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 →

2) A bucket of something is as much as a bucket holds. tree →

3) «Buckets» in speech means a lot: «it rained buckets». tree →

4) A bucket list is a list of things a person wants to do one day. tree →

sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Isaiah says the nations are like a drop from a bucket compared with God. Tradition reads this as showing how small all human power is before the Creator. In the primary 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

• Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance; behold the isles are as a mote in weight. (Prophets ISA.40.15, JPS 1917) tree →
• A bucket holds 8 litres. tree →
• How many buckets fill a 40 litre tank? tree →
• She picked 3 buckets of berries. tree →
• Each bucket has 25 shells. tree →
• We built a sandcastle with a bucket and spade. tree →
• He carried a bucket of water to the horses. tree →
• It was raining buckets all day. tree →
• The roof leaked, so we put a bucket under the drip. tree →
• A large bucket was set before the puma directly. tree →

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.
• "Kicked the bucket" means died; it is a joking, informal phrase.
• Standing on chairs, buckets or furniture that wobble causes many falls at home, so use a proper step stool.
• Small animals can fall into a bucket of water and drown because they cannot climb the smooth sides.
• A cover on a bucket or a stick leaning inside it lets small animals stay out or climb out.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «bucket» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.