Etymology From Middle English buket, boket, partly from Old English bucc ("bucket, pitcher"; mod. dialectal buck), equivalent to bouk + -et; and partly from Anglo-Norman buket, buquet (“tub; pail”) (compare Norman boutchet, Norman bouquet), diminutive of Old French buc (“abdomen; object with a cavity”), from Vulgar Latin *būcus (compare Occitan and Catalan buc, Italian buco, buca (“hole, gap”)), from Frankish *būk (“belly, stomach”). Both the Old English and Frankish terms derive from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, stomach”). More at bouk.
A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
I need a bucket to carry the water from the well.
The crab was cool and very light. But the water was thick with sand, and so, scrambling down, Jacob was about to jump, holding his bucket in front of him, when he saw, stretched entirely rigid, side by side, their faces very red, an enormous man and woman.1922, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in Jacob's Room:
[Markieff] Morris isn’t quite the post-up threat that [Enes] Kanter is, and he can play both the 4 spot and 5 spot instead of just center, like Kanter. He is capable of playing a similar way, backing defenders down in the post. He prefers getting his buckets there with a bevy of fade-aways and jumpers. He’s a heat checker. And he can get hot on the block.2019 February 25, Brett Dawson, Fred Katz, “How power forward Markieff Morris might fit in with the Thunder”, in The Athletic:
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A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
Variation management
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
Etymology From Middle English buket, boket, partly from Old English bucc ("bucket, pitcher"; mod. dialectal buck), equivalent to bouk + -et; and partly from Anglo-Norman buket, buquet (“tub; pail”) (compare Norman boutchet, Norman bouquet), diminutive of Old French buc (“abdomen; object with a cavity”), from Vulgar Latin *būcus (compare Occitan and Catalan buc, Italian buco, buca (“hole, gap”)), from Frankish *būk (“belly, stomach”). Both the Old English and Frankish terms derive from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, stomach”). More at bouk.
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.
These candidates are then bucketed into a discretized version of the space of all possible lines.2002, Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi, Masayuki Numao, Rüdiger Reischuk, Algorithmic Learning Theory: 13th International Conference, page 352:
Thus, sorting each bucket takes O(1) times. The total effort of bucketing, sorting buckets, and concotenating^([sic]) the sorted buckets together is O(n).2008, Hari Mohan Pandey, Design Analysis and Algorithm, page 136:
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Business, FinanceUS To engage in an illegal practice where a broker confirms a client's trade order without actually executing it on the free market.
In United States v. Ficken (N.D. Ohio) the defendant was sentenced to 18 years imprisonment after pleading guilty to charges of converting clients' funds by "bucketing" their orders.1963, United States. Securities and Exchange Commission, Annual Report of the Securities and Exchange Commission, page 138:
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Hobbies, Lifestyle, Rowing, SportsUK, US To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.