英语词汇“bucketload”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

bucket /bukˈit/

noun

A vessel for drawing or holding water, etc

One of the compartments on the circumference of a water wheel

One of the scoops of a dredging machine

A wastepaper bin (informal)

A subdivision of a data file, used to locate data (computing)

Something shaped like a bucket

An ice cream tub (Aust inf)

(a glass of) alcoholic drink (Scot inf)

A bucketful

transitive verb

To lift in a bucket

transitive verb

intransitive verb

To drive or ride very hard or bumpily

To push forward mercilessly

To swindle (archaic)

intransitive verb

informal

(of rain) to pour heavily

ORIGIN: Prob connected with OE būc a pitcher, or OFr buket a pail. Not Gaelic bucaid a bucket

buckˈetful noun (pl buckˈetfuls)

As much as a bucket will hold

buckˈeting noun

bucket list noun (informal)

A list compiled by someone who is terminally ill of things they would like to do before dying

buckˈetload noun (informal)

A great amount

bucket seat noun

A round-backed, often forward-tipping, seat in a car, aeroplane, etc

bucket shop noun (informal)

The office of an unregistered stockbroker, a mere agent for bets on the rise or fall of prices of stock, etc (orig US)
Any not wholly reliable agency, eg one dealing in unsold airline tickets

buckˈet-wheel noun

A contrivance for raising water by means of buckets attached to the circumference of a wheel

bucket and spade

A child's beach toy, comprising a small bucket and spade for playing with sand and water

give the bucket

To dismiss

kick the bucket (slang)

To die (perh from dialect bucket a beam from which slaughtered animals are hung)