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