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bucket
(encz) | bucket,kbelík n: Cascaval |
bucket
(encz) | bucket,kyblík n: Zdeněk Brož |
bucket
(encz) | bucket,lopata nakladače n: Ondřej Hájek |
bucket
(encz) | bucket,lžíce rypadla n: Ondřej Hájek |
bucket
(encz) | bucket,nádoba Zdeněk Brož |
bucket
(encz) | bucket,vědro n: Cascaval |
Bucket
(gcide) | Bucket \Buck"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bucketed; p. pr. & vb.
n. Bucketing.]
1. To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets; as, to bucket
water.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. To pour over from a bucket; to drench.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
3. To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
4. (Rowing) To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a
certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.
[Eng.]
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Bucket
(gcide) | Bucket \Buck"et\, n. [OE. boket; cf. AS. buc pitcher, or Corn.
buket tub.]
1. A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for
catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other
liquids.
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The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket,
The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well.
--Wordsworth.
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2. A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying
coal, ore, grain, etc.
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3. (Mach.) One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel
into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve;
also, a float of a paddle wheel.
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4. The valved piston of a lifting pump.
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5. (Mach.) one of vanes on the rotor of a turbine.
[PJC]
6. (Mach.) a bucketfull.
[PJC]
Fire bucket, a bucket for carrying water to put out fires.
To kick the bucket, to die. [Low]
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bucket
(wn) | bucket
n 1: a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top [syn:
bucket, pail]
2: the quantity contained in a bucket [syn: bucket,
bucketful]
v 1: put into a bucket
2: carry in a bucket |
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a drop in the bucket
(encz) | a drop in the bucket,malá část Zdeněk Brož |
bucket
(encz) | bucket,kbelík n: Cascavalbucket,kyblík n: Zdeněk Brožbucket,lopata nakladače n: Ondřej Hájekbucket,lžíce rypadla n: Ondřej Hájekbucket,nádoba Zdeněk Brožbucket,vědro n: Cascaval |
bucketful
(encz) | bucketful,plný kbelík Zdeněk Brož |
buckets
(encz) | buckets,kyblíky n: pl. Zdeněk Brožbuckets,vědra n: Zdeněk Brož |
dinner bucket
(encz) | dinner bucket, n: |
dredging bucket
(encz) | dredging bucket, n: |
gutbucket
(encz) | gutbucket,škopková basa n: [hud.] [slang.] folkový hudební nástroj,
který jako ozvučné těleso používá kovový škopek, spisovně "washtub
bass" web |
kick the bucket
(encz) | kick the bucket,natáhnout bačkory Zdeněk Brož |
rain buckets
(encz) | rain buckets, v: |
rustbucket
(encz) | rustbucket, |
suckbucket
(encz) | suckbucket, |
trebucket
(encz) | trebucket, n: |
wine bucket
(encz) | wine bucket, n: |
Bucket shop
(gcide) | Bucket shop \Buck"et shop`\
An office or a place where facilities are given for betting
small sums on current prices of stocks, petroleum, etc.
[Slang, U.S.]
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Bucketed
(gcide) | Bucket \Buck"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bucketed; p. pr. & vb.
n. Bucketing.]
1. To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets; as, to bucket
water.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. To pour over from a bucket; to drench.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
3. To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
4. (Rowing) To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a
certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.
[Eng.]
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bucketful
(gcide) | bucketful \buck"et*ful`\, Bucketfull \Buck"et*full`\
a bucket filled with a substance, or the quantity which would
fill a bucket.
Syn: bucket.
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Bucketfull
(gcide) | bucketful \buck"et*ful`\, Bucketfull \Buck"et*full`\
a bucket filled with a substance, or the quantity which would
fill a bucket.
Syn: bucket.
[PJC] |
Bucketing
(gcide) | Bucket \Buck"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bucketed; p. pr. & vb.
n. Bucketing.]
1. To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets; as, to bucket
water.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. To pour over from a bucket; to drench.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
3. To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
4. (Rowing) To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a
certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.
[Eng.]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.] |
Buckety
(gcide) | Buckety \Buck"et*y\, n. [A corruption of buckwheat.]
Paste used by weavers to dress their webs. --Buchanan.
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Fire bucket
(gcide) | Bucket \Buck"et\, n. [OE. boket; cf. AS. buc pitcher, or Corn.
buket tub.]
1. A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for
catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other
liquids.
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The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket,
The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well.
--Wordsworth.
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2. A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying
coal, ore, grain, etc.
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3. (Mach.) One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel
into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve;
also, a float of a paddle wheel.
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4. The valved piston of a lifting pump.
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5. (Mach.) one of vanes on the rotor of a turbine.
[PJC]
6. (Mach.) a bucketfull.
[PJC]
Fire bucket, a bucket for carrying water to put out fires.
To kick the bucket, to die. [Low]
[1913 Webster]Fire \Fire\ (f[imac]r), n. [OE. fir, fyr, fur AS. f[=y]r; akin
to D. vuur, OS. & OHG. fiur, G. feuer, Icel. f[=y]ri,
f[=u]rr, Gr. py^r, and perh. to L. purus pure, E. pure Cf.
Empyrean, Pyre.]
1. The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of
bodies; combustion; state of ignition.
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Note: The form of fire exhibited in the combustion of gases
in an ascending stream or current is called flame.
Anciently, fire, air, earth, and water were regarded as
the four elements of which all things are composed.
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2. Fuel in a state of combustion, as on a hearth, or in a
stove or a furnace.
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3. The burning of a house or town; a conflagration.
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4. Anything which destroys or affects like fire.
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5. Ardor of passion, whether love or hate; excessive warmth;
consuming violence of temper.
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he had fire in his temper. --Atterbury.
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6. Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral
enthusiasm; capacity for ardor and zeal.
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And bless their critic with a poet's fire. --Pope.
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7. Splendor; brilliancy; luster; hence, a star.
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Stars, hide your fires. --Shak.
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As in a zodiac
representing the heavenly fires. --Milton.
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8. Torture by burning; severe trial or affliction.
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9. The discharge of firearms; firing; as, the troops were
exposed to a heavy fire.
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Blue fire, Red fire, Green fire (Pyrotech.),
compositions of various combustible substances, as
sulphur, niter, lampblack, etc., the flames of which are
colored by various metallic salts, as those of antimony,
strontium, barium, etc.
Fire alarm
(a) A signal given on the breaking out of a fire.
(b) An apparatus for giving such an alarm.
Fire annihilator, a machine, device, or preparation to be
kept at hand for extinguishing fire by smothering it with
some incombustible vapor or gas, as carbonic acid.
Fire balloon.
(a) A balloon raised in the air by the buoyancy of air
heated by a fire placed in the lower part.
(b) A balloon sent up at night with fireworks which ignite
at a regulated height. --Simmonds.
Fire bar, a grate bar.
Fire basket, a portable grate; a cresset. --Knight.
Fire beetle. (Zool.) See in the Vocabulary.
Fire blast, a disease of plants which causes them to appear
as if burnt by fire.
Fire box, the chamber of a furnace, steam boiler, etc., for
the fire.
Fire brick, a refractory brick, capable of sustaining
intense heat without fusion, usually made of fire clay or
of siliceous material, with some cementing substance, and
used for lining fire boxes, etc.
Fire brigade, an organized body of men for extinguished
fires.
Fire bucket. See under Bucket.
Fire bug, an incendiary; one who, from malice or through
mania, persistently sets fire to property; a pyromaniac.
[U.S.]
Fire clay. See under Clay.
Fire company, a company of men managing an engine in
extinguishing fires.
Fire cross. See Fiery cross. [Obs.] --Milton.
Fire damp. See under Damp.
Fire dog. See Firedog, in the Vocabulary.
Fire drill.
(a) A series of evolutions performed by fireman for
practice.
(b) An apparatus for producing fire by friction, by
rapidly twirling a wooden pin in a wooden socket; --
used by the Hindoos during all historic time, and by
many savage peoples.
Fire eater.
(a) A juggler who pretends to eat fire.
(b) A quarrelsome person who seeks affrays; a hotspur.
[Colloq.]
Fire engine, a portable forcing pump, usually on wheels,
for throwing water to extinguish fire.
Fire escape, a contrivance for facilitating escape from
burning buildings.
Fire gilding (Fine Arts), a mode of gilding with an amalgam
of gold and quicksilver, the latter metal being driven off
afterward by heat.
Fire gilt (Fine Arts), gold laid on by the process of fire
gilding.
Fire insurance, the act or system of insuring against fire;
also, a contract by which an insurance company undertakes,
in consideration of the payment of a premium or small
percentage -- usually made periodically -- to indemnify an
owner of property from loss by fire during a specified
period.
Fire irons, utensils for a fireplace or grate, as tongs,
poker, and shovel.
Fire main, a pipe for water, to be used in putting out
fire.
Fire master
(Mil), an artillery officer who formerly supervised the
composition of fireworks.
Fire office, an office at which to effect insurance against
fire.
Fire opal, a variety of opal giving firelike reflections.
Fire ordeal, an ancient mode of trial, in which the test
was the ability of the accused to handle or tread upon
red-hot irons. --Abbot.
Fire pan, a pan for holding or conveying fire, especially
the receptacle for the priming of a gun.
Fire plug, a plug or hydrant for drawing water from the
main pipes in a street, building, etc., for extinguishing
fires.
Fire policy, the writing or instrument expressing the
contract of insurance against loss by fire.
Fire pot.
(a) (Mil.) A small earthen pot filled with combustibles,
formerly used as a missile in war.
(b) The cast iron vessel which holds the fuel or fire in a
furnace.
(c) A crucible.
(d) A solderer's furnace.
Fire raft, a raft laden with combustibles, used for setting
fire to an enemy's ships.
Fire roll, a peculiar beat of the drum to summon men to
their quarters in case of fire.
Fire setting (Mining), the process of softening or cracking
the working face of a lode, to facilitate excavation, by
exposing it to the action of fire; -- now generally
superseded by the use of explosives. --Raymond.
Fire ship, a vessel filled with combustibles, for setting
fire to an enemy's ships.
Fire shovel, a shovel for taking up coals of fire.
Fire stink, the stench from decomposing iron pyrites,
caused by the formation of hydrogen sulfide. --Raymond.
Fire surface, the surfaces of a steam boiler which are
exposed to the direct heat of the fuel and the products of
combustion; heating surface.
Fire swab, a swab saturated with water, for cooling a gun
in action and clearing away particles of powder, etc.
--Farrow.
Fire teaser, in England, the fireman of a steam emgine.
Fire water, a strong alcoholic beverage; -- so called by
the American Indians.
Fire worship, the worship of fire, which prevails chiefly
in Persia, among the followers of Zoroaster, called
Chebers, or Guebers, and among the Parsees of India.
Greek fire. See under Greek.
On fire, burning; hence, ardent; passionate; eager;
zealous.
Running fire, the rapid discharge of firearms in succession
by a line of troops.
St. Anthony's fire, erysipelas; -- an eruptive fever which
St. Anthony was supposed to cure miraculously. --Hoblyn.
St. Elmo's fire. See under Saint Elmo.
To set on fire, to inflame; to kindle.
To take fire, to begin to burn; to fly into a passion.
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Lance bucket
(gcide) | Lance \Lance\ (l[a^]ns), n. [OE. lance, F. lance, fr. L. lancea;
cf. Gr. lo`gchh. Cf. Launch.]
1. A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and
a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen, and
often decorated with a small flag; also, a spear or
harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
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A braver soldier never couched lance. --Shak.
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2. A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
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3. (Founding) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the
mold in casting a shell.
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4. (Mil.) An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece
of ordnance and forces it home.
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5. (Pyrotech.) One of the small paper cases filled with
combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a
figure.
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6. (Med.) A lancet.
[PJC]
Free lance, in the Middle Ages, and subsequently, a knight
or roving soldier, who was free to engage for any state or
commander that purchased his services; hence, a person who
assails institutions or opinions on his own responsibility
without regard to party lines or deference to authority.
See also freelance, n. and a., and freelancer.
Lance bucket (Cavalry), a socket attached to a saddle or
stirrup strap, in which to rest the but of a lance.
Lance corporal, same as Lancepesade.
Lance knight, a lansquenet. --B. Jonson.
Lance snake (Zool.), the fer-de-lance.
Stink-fire lance (Mil.), a kind of fuse filled with a
composition which burns with a suffocating odor; -- used
in the counter operations of miners.
To break a lance, to engage in a tilt or contest.
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Plunger bucket
(gcide) | Plunger \Plun"ger\, n.
1. One who, or that which, plunges; a diver.
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2. A long solid cylinder, used, instead of a piston or
bucket, as a forcer in pumps.
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3. One who bets heavily and recklessly on a race; a reckless
speculator. [Cant]
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4. (Pottery) A boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a
creamy consistence. --Knight.
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5. (Gun.) The firing pin of a breechloader.
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Plunger bucket, a piston, without a valve, in a pump.
Plunger pole, the pump rod of a pumping engine.
Plunger pump, a pump, as for water, having a plunger,
instead of a piston, to act upon the water. It may be
single-acting or double-acting
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To kick the bucket
(gcide) | Kick \Kick\ (k[i^]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Kicked (k[i^]kt); p.
pr. & vb. n. Kicking.] [W. cicio, fr. cic foot.]
1. To strike, thrust, or hit violently with the foot; as, a
horse kicks a groom; a man kicks a dog.
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He [Frederick the Great] kicked the shins of his
judges. --Macaulay.
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2. To evict or remove from a place or position, usually with
out or off; as, they kicked him off the staff; he was
kicked out of the restaurant; the landlord kicked them out
of the apartment for making too much noise.
[PJC]
3. (Sport) To score (goals or points) by kicking; as, they
kicked three field goals in the game.
[PJC]
4. To discontinue; -- usually used of habitual activities;
as, to kick a habit; he kicked his drug habit.
[PJC]
To kick the beam, to fit up and strike the beam; -- said of
the lighter arm of a loaded balance; hence, to be found
wanting in weight. --Milton.
To kick the bucket, to lose one's life; to die. [Colloq. &
Low]
To kick oneself, to experience strong regret; as, he kicked
himself for not investing in the stock market in 1995.
[1913 Webster +PJC]Bucket \Buck"et\, n. [OE. boket; cf. AS. buc pitcher, or Corn.
buket tub.]
1. A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for
catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other
liquids.
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The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket,
The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well.
--Wordsworth.
[1913 Webster]
2. A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying
coal, ore, grain, etc.
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3. (Mach.) One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel
into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve;
also, a float of a paddle wheel.
[1913 Webster]
4. The valved piston of a lifting pump.
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5. (Mach.) one of vanes on the rotor of a turbine.
[PJC]
6. (Mach.) a bucketfull.
[PJC]
Fire bucket, a bucket for carrying water to put out fires.
To kick the bucket, to die. [Low]
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Trebucket
(gcide) | Trebuchet \Treb"u*chet\, Trebucket \Tre"buck*et\, n. [OF.
trebuchet, trebukiet, an engine of war for hurling stones, F.
tr['e]buchet a gin, trap, a kind of balance, fr. OF.
trebuchier, trebuquier, to stumble, trip, F. tr['e]bucher.]
1. A cucking stool; a tumbrel. --Cowell.
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2. A military engine used in the Middle Ages for throwing
stones, etc. It acted by means of a great weight fastened
to the short arm of a lever, which, being let fall, raised
the end of the long arm with great velocity, hurling
stones with much force.
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3. A kind of balance for weighing. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]Castigatory \Cas"ti*ga*to*ry\, n.
An instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant
scolds; -- called also a ducking stool, or trebucket.
--Blacktone.
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trebucket
(gcide) | Trebuchet \Treb"u*chet\, Trebucket \Tre"buck*et\, n. [OF.
trebuchet, trebukiet, an engine of war for hurling stones, F.
tr['e]buchet a gin, trap, a kind of balance, fr. OF.
trebuchier, trebuquier, to stumble, trip, F. tr['e]bucher.]
1. A cucking stool; a tumbrel. --Cowell.
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2. A military engine used in the Middle Ages for throwing
stones, etc. It acted by means of a great weight fastened
to the short arm of a lever, which, being let fall, raised
the end of the long arm with great velocity, hurling
stones with much force.
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3. A kind of balance for weighing. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]Castigatory \Cas"ti*ga*to*ry\, n.
An instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant
scolds; -- called also a ducking stool, or trebucket.
--Blacktone.
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bucket
(wn) | bucket
n 1: a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top [syn:
bucket, pail]
2: the quantity contained in a bucket [syn: bucket,
bucketful]
v 1: put into a bucket
2: carry in a bucket |
bucket along
(wn) | bucket along
v 1: move fast; "He rushed down the hall to receive his guests";
"The cars raced down the street" [syn: rush, hotfoot,
hasten, hie, speed, race, pelt along, {rush
along}, cannonball along, bucket along, belt along,
step on it] [ant: dawdle, linger] |
bucket seat
(wn) | bucket seat
n 1: a low single seat as in cars or planes |
bucket shop
(wn) | bucket shop
n 1: an unethical or overly aggressive brokerage firm
2: (formerly) a cheap saloon selling liquor by the bucket |
bucketful
(wn) | bucketful
n 1: the quantity contained in a bucket [syn: bucket,
bucketful] |
dinner bucket
(wn) | dinner bucket
n 1: a pail in which a workman carries his lunch or dinner [syn:
dinner pail, dinner bucket] |
dredging bucket
(wn) | dredging bucket
n 1: a bucket for lifting material from a channel or riverbed |
kick the bucket
(wn) | kick the bucket
v 1: pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and
functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from
cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient
went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age
of 102" [syn: die, decease, perish, go, exit,
pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, {cash in
one's chips}, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost,
drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it] [ant:
be born] |
rain buckets
(wn) | rain buckets
v 1: rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring
outside!" [syn: pour, pelt, stream, {rain cats and
dogs}, rain buckets] |
trebucket
(wn) | trebucket
n 1: an engine that provided medieval artillery used during
sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and
other missiles [syn: catapult, arbalest, arbalist,
ballista, bricole, mangonel, onager, trebuchet,
trebucket] |
wine bucket
(wn) | wine bucket
n 1: a bucket of ice used to chill a bottle of wine [syn: {wine
bucket}, wine cooler] |
bit bucket
(foldoc) | bit bucket
1. (Or "write-only memory", "WOM") The universal
data sink (originally, the mythical receptacle used to catch
bits when they fall off the end of a register during a
shift instruction). Discarded, lost, or destroyed data is
said to have "gone to the bit bucket". On Unix, often used
for /dev/null. Sometimes amplified as "the Great Bit Bucket
in the Sky".
2. The place where all lost mail and news messages eventually
go. The selection is performed according to Finagle's Law;
important mail is much more likely to end up in the bit bucket
than junk mail, which has an almost 100% probability of
getting delivered. Routing to the bit bucket is automatically
performed by mail-transfer agents, news systems, and the lower
layers of the network.
3. The ideal location for all unwanted mail responses: "Flames
about this article to the bit bucket." Such a request is
guaranteed to overflow one's mailbox with flames.
4. Excuse for all mail that has not been sent. "I mailed you
those figures last week; they must have landed in the bit
bucket." Compare black hole.
This term is used purely in jest. It is based on the fanciful
notion that bits are objects that are not destroyed but only
misplaced. This appears to have been a mutation of an earlier
term "bit box", about which the same legend was current;
old-time hackers also report that trainees used to be told
that when the CPU stored bits into memory it was actually
pulling them "out of the bit box".
Another variant of this legend has it that, as a consequence
of the "parity preservation law", the number of 1 bits that go
to the bit bucket must equal the number of 0 bits. Any
imbalance results in bits filling up the bit bucket. A
qualified computer technician can empty a full bit bucket as
part of scheduled maintenance.
In contrast, a "chad box" is a real container used to catch
chad. This may be related to the origin of the term "bit
bucket" [Comments ?].
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hash bucket
(foldoc) | hash coding
hash bucket
hashing
hash table
(Or "hashing") A scheme for providing
rapid access to data items which are distinguished by some
key. Each data item to be stored is associated with a key,
e.g. the name of a person. A hash function is applied to
the item's key and the resulting hash value is used as an
index to select one of a number of "hash buckets" in a hash
table. The table contains pointers to the original items.
If, when adding a new item, the hash table already has an
entry at the indicated location then that entry's key must be
compared with the given key to see if it is the same. If two
items' keys hash to the same value (a "hash collision") then
some alternative location is used (e.g. the next free location
cyclically following the indicated one). For best
performance, the table size and hash function must be
tailored to the number of entries and range of keys to be
used. The hash function usually depends on the table size so
if the table needs to be enlarged it must usually be
completely rebuilt.
When you look up a name in the phone book (for example), you
typically hash it by extracting its first letter; the hash
buckets are the alphabetically ordered letter sections.
See also: btree, checksum, CRC, pseudorandom number,
random, random number, soundex.
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bit bucket
(jargon) | bit bucket
n.
[very common]
1. The universal data sink (originally, the mythical receptacle used to
catch bits when they fall off the end of a register during a shift
instruction). Discarded, lost, or destroyed data is said to have gone to
the bit bucket. On Unix, often used for /dev/null. Sometimes amplified
as the Great Bit Bucket in the Sky.
2. The place where all lost mail and news messages eventually go. The
selection is performed according to Finagle's Law; important mail is much
more likely to end up in the bit bucket than junk mail, which has an almost
100% probability of getting delivered. Routing to the bit bucket is
automatically performed by mail-transfer agents, news systems, and the
lower layers of the network.
3. The ideal location for all unwanted mail responses: “Flames about this
article to the bit bucket.” Such a request is guaranteed to overflow one's
mailbox with flames.
4. Excuse for all mail that has not been sent. “I mailed you those figures
last week; they must have landed in the bit bucket.” Compare black hole.
This term is used purely in jest. It is based on the fanciful notion that
bits are objects that are not destroyed but only misplaced. This appears to
have been a mutation of an earlier term ‘bit box’, about which the same
legend was current; old-time hackers also report that trainees used to be
told that when the CPU stored bits into memory it was actually pulling them
“out of the bit box”. See also chad box.
Another variant of this legend has it that, as a consequence of the “parity
preservation law”, the number of 1 bits that go to the bit bucket must
equal the number of 0 bits. Any imbalance results in bits filling up the
bit bucket. A qualified computer technician can empty a full bit bucket as
part of scheduled maintenance.
The source for all these meanings, is, historically, the fact that the {
chad box} on a paper-tape punch was sometimes called a bit bucket.
[75-10-04]
A literal bit bucket.
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hash bucket
(jargon) | hash bucket
n.
A notional receptacle, a set of which might be used to apportion data items
for sorting or lookup purposes. When you look up a name in the phone book
(for example), you typically hash it by extracting its first letter; the
hash buckets are the alphabetically ordered letter sections. This term is
used as techspeak with respect to code that uses actual hash functions; in
jargon, it is used for human associative memory as well. Thus, two things
‘in the same hash bucket’ are more difficult to discriminate, and may be
confused. “If you hash English words only by length, you get too many
common grammar words in the first couple of hash buckets.” Compare {hash
collision}.
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TREBUCKET
(bouvier) | TREBUCKET. The name of an engine of punishment, said to be synonymous with
tumbrel. (q.v.)
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