BUCKET: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for BUCKET?

Need another word that means the same as “bucket”? Find 60 synonyms and 30 related words for “bucket” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Bucket” are: bucketful, pail, scuttle, can, tub, pitcher, vessel, floods, gallons, pints, oceans, rain heavily, rain cats and dogs, rain hard, pour, pelt, lash, teem, stream, tip, beat, sheet, speed, hurry, race, run, sprint, dash, bolt, dart, rush, hasten, hurtle, career, streak, shoot, whizz, zoom, go like lightning, go hell for leather, spank along, bowl along, rattle along, whirl, whoosh, buzz, swoop, flash, blast, charge, stampede, gallop, sweep, hare, fly, wing, scurry, scud, scutter, scramble

Bucket as a Noun

Definitions of "Bucket" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “bucket” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• A compartment on the outer edge of a waterwheel.
• The contents of a bucket or the amount it can contain.
• A unit of data that can be transferred from a backing store in a single operation.
• The quantity contained in a bucket.
• A scoop attached to the front of a loader, digger, or tractor.
• Large quantities of something, especially liquid.
• A roughly cylindrical open container with a handle, made of metal or plastic and used to hold and carry liquids.
• A roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top.
• The scoop of a dredger or grain elevator.

Synonyms of "Bucket" as a noun (11 Words)

bucketful	The quantity contained in a bucket.
can	The quantity contained in a can.
floods	The occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide) -Shakespeare. A tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
gallons	United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
oceans	Anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume.
pail	The quantity contained in a pail.
pints	A United States liquid unit equal to 16 fluid ounces two pints equal one quart.
pitcher	A leaf that that is modified in such a way as to resemble a pitcher or ewer. A pitcher of water.
scuttle	The amount of coal held in a scuttle. Carrying endless scuttles of coal up from the cellar.
tub	The contents of a tub or the amount it can contain. They are loading the coal into tubs for transportation.
vessel	A ship or large boat. Lord use this lowly vessel let me serve You as You will.

Usage Examples of "Bucket" as a noun

• An ice bucket.
• The Laxey wheel had 168 buckets, each holding 24 gallons.
• A bucket and spade.
• She emptied a bucket of water over them.
• As the chain turns the buckets bite into the canal bed and scoop out the mud.
• I wept buckets.

Bucket as a Verb

Definitions of "Bucket" as a verb

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “bucket” as a verb can have the following definitions:

• Carry in a bucket.
• Put into a bucket.
• Rain heavily.
• (of a vehicle) move quickly and jerkily.

Synonyms of "Bucket" as a verb (49 Words)

beat	Shape by beating. Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night.
blast	Strike with divine anger (used to express annoyance or dislike. The car was blasted thirty feet into the sky.
bolt	Secure or lock with a bolt. The listeners bolted when he discussed his strange ideas.
bowl along	Hurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch towards the batsman at the other end.
buzz	Signal to someone with a buzzer. Twenty four hours later Mark was still buzzing.
career	Move headlong at high speed. The cars careered down the road.
charge	Cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on. The room was charged with tension and anxiety.
dart	Move along rapidly and lightly skim or dart. He darted his fierce iron.
dash	Destroy or frustrate (hopes or expectations. He dashed the plate against the wall.
flash	Shine in a bright but brief, sudden, or intermittent way. A sudden thought flashed through his mind.
fly	Release a bird to fly especially a hawk for hunting or a pigeon for racing. I must fly.
gallop	Cause to move at full gallop. Fred galloped the horse off to the start.
go hell for leather	Be contained in.
go like lightning	Be abolished or discarded.
hare	Run quickly like a hare. He hared down the hill.
hasten	Cause to occur rapidly. We hastened back to Paris.
hurry	Move or act with great haste. Hurry it s late.
hurtle	Make a thrusting forward movement. The trucks hurtled them through the grassland to the construction sites.
lash	Lash or flick about sharply. Lash the horse.
pelt	(of rain, hail, or snow) fall quickly and very heavily. She spotted four boys pelting stones at ducks.
pour	Pour out. Black smoke poured out of the engine.
race	Compete in a race. He raced his three horses simply for the fun of it.
rain cats and dogs	Precipitate as rain.
rain hard	Precipitate as rain.
rain heavily	Precipitate as rain.
rattle along	Make short successive sounds.
run	Flee take to one s heels cut and run. Her nylons were running.
rush	Cause to move fast or to rush or race. I don t want to rush you into something.
scramble	Put (clothes) on hurriedly. She scrambled out of the car.
scud	Move fast in a straight line because or as if driven by the wind. She scudded me across the head.
scurry	(of a person or small animal) move hurriedly with short quick steps. Pedestrians scurried for cover.
scutter	(especially of a small animal) move hurriedly with short steps. A little dog scuttered up from the cabin.
sheet	Cover with or wrap in a sheet of cloth. Rain sheeted down.
shoot	Shoot game in or on an estate cover etc. The troops were ordered to shoot to kill.
spank along	Give a spanking to; subject to a spanking.
speed	Of a motorist travel at a speed that is greater than the legal limit. May God speed you.
sprint	Run very fast, usually for a short distance. I saw Charlie sprinting through the traffic towards me.
stampede	Cause people or animals to stampede. Companies will now stampede to release their latest software.
streak	Cover a surface with streaks. The singer admitted to streaking in his home town in the seventies.
stream	(of liquid, air, gas, etc.) run or flow in a continuous current in a specified direction. Tears streamed down her face.
sweep	Sweep with a broom or as if with a broom. They were trying to get the Lewis gun up behind some trees from where they would sweep the trench.
swoop	Move with a sweep or in a swooping arc. Armed police swooped on a flat after a tip off.
teem	Be teeming be abuzz. The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen.
tip	Remove the tip from. Tip the screen upward.
whirl	Move or cause to move rapidly. The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy.
whizz	Move quickly through the air with a whistling or buzzing sound. The missiles whizzed past.
whoosh	Move with a whooshing sound. He whooshed the doors open.
wing	Travel on wings or by aircraft fly. A little preparation puts you ahead of the job seekers who try to wing it.
zoom	Cause a lens or camera to zoom in or out. We can zoom out to view the entire slide.

Usage Examples of "Bucket" as a verb

• The car came bucketing out of a side road.
• It was still bucketing down.

Associations of "Bucket" (30 Words)

ablution	(in army slang) a building or room containing washing facilities and toilets. The women performed their ablutions.
basket	A score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the hoop. She dropped the letter into the waste paper basket.
bath	You soak and wash your body in a bathtub. People are spending more money on their kitchen and bath.
bathe	Suffuse with or as if with light. Bathe daily.
bathroom	A set of matching units to be fitted in a bathroom especially as sold together. I have to go to the bathroom.
bathtub	A relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body.
bowl	The quantity contained in a bowl. My parents like to bowl on Friday nights.
case	An agreed summary of the facts relating to a legal case drawn up for review or decision on a point of law by a higher court. That was not the case.
cleanse	(in biblical translations) cure (a leper). Purgatory is supposed to cleanse you from your sins.
console	An ornamental scroll-shaped bracket (especially one used to support a wall fixture. You can console yourself with the thought that you did your best.
dish	A piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food. A dish of saut potatoes.
faucet	A regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir.
gallon	A British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 quarts or 4.545 liters. Gallons of fake blood.
gutter	Wear or cut gutters into. The heavy rain guttered the soil.
kitchen	A set of fitments and units that are sold together and fixed in place in a kitchen. Kitchen Swahili.
ladle	Remove with or as if with a ladle. Ladle soup into the bowl.
lavatory	A sink or washbasin in a bathroom or toilet. I needed to go to the lavatory.
pail	The quantity contained in a pail.
plumbing	The work of installing and maintaining a plumbing system. The magazine gives a guide to the tools needed for home plumbing.
restroom	A room in a public building for people to relax or recover in.
scoop	A quantity taken up by a scoop. The powder is packed in tubs in which a measuring scoop is provided.
sewer	Someone who sews. All that work went down the sewer.
shower	Wash oneself in a shower. The game was interrupted by a brief shower.
soap	Wash with soap. The soaps are top of the ratings.
spoon	Put food into or on something with a spoon. He added two spoons of sugar.
suite	A group of minerals, rocks, or fossils occurring together and characteristic of a location or period. There is plenty of space for a dining table and a three piece suite.
toilet	A room building or cubicle containing a toilet or toilets. Most patients with the disease are incontinent although this may be minimized with regular toileting.
tub	The amount that a tub will hold. Even your formal evening gown can be tubbed.
upstairs	On a floor above. I tiptoed upstairs.
wash	Be capable of being washed. The wash of waves on the pebbled beach.