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# bucket

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

«bucket» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A bucket is an open round container with a handle for carrying water, sand or other things. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bucket/#m2)
3. «Buckets» in speech means a lot: «it rained buckets». [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bucket/#m4)

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

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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bucket/#x1)

### 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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «bucket» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bucket/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«bucket» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/bucket.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «bucket» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bucket/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«bucket» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/bucket.html) on Mova free.