I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bucket seat
bucket shop
ice bucket
sweat like a pig/sweat buckets informal (= sweat a lot )
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basketball players sweating buckets
weep buckets informal (= produce a lot of tears )
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I didn’t know if she would get well, and I wept buckets every night.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
large
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It pays to have friendly neighbours or a large bucket at this stage.
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In general, consecutive spill should be considered for low packing densities and/or very large bucket sizes.
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This was most marked for large bucket sizes.
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In this case the cylinder can be treated as a very large bucket .
■ NOUN
ice
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Gouts of blood, on the bar towels, the ice bucket .
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Just forget about anyone wheeling a linen-covered table into your room with plates, silverware, wine glasses and ice buckets .
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There was an ice bucket in the middle and a bottle of chilled champagne.
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She was counting silver ice buckets for the do.
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What did she need ice buckets for?
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He reaches for the ice bucket and starts pouring the champagne.
plastic
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I now use a small plastic bucket to keep the worms and feed them on bread and milk.
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The plastic buckets were slowly filled.
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If the Palaeolithic stone axe is immediately succeeded in a section by a plastic bucket , then we must suspect a gap.
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No flowers, no marble vases, just empty plastic buckets and washing-up bowls.
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I couldn't go without my red plastic bucket , or rather three of them.
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Harriet stood there in breeches and waxed jacket, holding a rope halter and a plastic bucket .
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Robinson and Porter both retrieved the small plastic buckets from one corner of the cell and wandered out on to the landing.
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He had asked for, and eventually been given, a plastic bucket of cold water and a sponge.
seat
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These are the colours of lines on Beck's map and also sometimes of station trims and new station bucket seats .
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Sherman and Maria are sitting in their tan leather bucket seats staring right at them.
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Even multimillionaires don't like getting blood all over their soft, beige leather bucket seats .
shop
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There is an art in quitting a bucket shop .
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After all, Merrill Lynch is not a bucket shop .
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Harvard dealers know more than their counterparts at newer bucket shops , and so have more choice of career direction.
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Most would find their next jobs in similar bucket shops .
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Oxford felt like a transatlantic liner in the age of bucket shops and cut-price charters.
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Successful salesmen in bucket shops scorn weak or moralising colleagues, just as they do all the clients.
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In contrast, the streetwise dealers require quicker money, and may end up in a bucket shop on the Continent.
slop
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Men who had emptied their slop buckets were returning to their cells.
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There was a table and two wooden chairs at the far end by the slop buckets .
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Clinton sat down beside the slop bucket and smiled at the two men.
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So the bread was deposited in the slop bucket .
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But not as sick as Vicky, who every morning now staggered up to retch helplessly into the slop bucket .
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Robinson smiled as he lifted the plastic cover from the slop bucket to reveal a lump of excrement.
water
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How far do you have to carry hay, bedding and water buckets ?
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He caught a bee, sang, and pecked at the water bucket .
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He stared at it for a second, then picked up a water bucket and threw it.
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Sullen girls walked barefoot from the public spigot with water buckets balanced on their heads.
■ VERB
bring
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He brought her a silver bucket of ice cubes with the glimmer of a flourish.
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Or just me bringing my night bucket into his cabin.
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Her owner rushed to bring her a bucket of oats before she should become entangled in the fence once again.
carry
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A flash of white feathers in the field, and the old woman was carrying a bucket .
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After the sweet juice is extracted, they carry it in wooden buckets on their heads to the next stage.
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I had to make several trips every day, carrying one bucket on my head and another resting on my hip.
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Every flush meant carrying a bucket of water up three flights of stairs.
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Then suddenly Irina appeared carrying a bucket .
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Water was carried in leather buckets from the spring along by the castle, a quarter of a mile down the track.
drop
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He'd dropped the bucket from the top of the ladder.
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While the gulls look on, I select a few of the larger, livelier fish and drop them into my bucket .
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I drop it into the bucket .
empty
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It was absolutely pouring down as though some one up top was emptying buckets .
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Have been very bad, and can hardly get downstairs to empty the bucket and fetch more tea.
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A tall woman leaned from a balcony and emptied a bucket of water over them.
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Men who had emptied their slop buckets were returning to their cells.
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She was still praying as she emptied the bucket over the logs.
fill
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I was like a thirsty man watching raindrops fill a bucket .
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Each fills her bucket and comes to stand in a circle around me.
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If Jamie Mitchell filled his rust bucket up with petrol, it'd double the value.
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Puny filled the scrub bucket and went to work with her brush.
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Or they may take advantage of visits to dischargers for other purposes to fill a sample bucket at the same time.
hold
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He stood in the door of the milking house, holding out the buckets for her to take.
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A third held a bucket of holy water towards the priest.
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At first, when Perdita held out the bucket , she was too frozen with fear to drink.
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Willie held an empty bucket and a small bag, while Zach carried a basket and satchel.
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Each of them held a small bucket .
kick
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Jinny was so startled that she nearly kicked the bucket over.
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Sometimes we were, some-times the drunk soldiers laughed as they kicked over our buckets .
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If Primrose was in a black mood she would like as not kick the bucket over.
pour
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He had crept unnoticed into the yard, stripped off and poured a bucket of water over his head.
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They take turns; one pours a full bucket over my head like a waterfall.
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She poured a little into the bucket .
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Well, one day I sat down to play and found somebody had poured a bucket of sand into the piano.
put
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George put down the bucket and strode over to her to give her a pat.
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Or a guard will put a bucket on your head and whack it with a truncheon.
throw
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She liked the sizzling sound of the water as it hit the stones when some one threw it from the bucket .
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Conrad Burns by throwing a five-gallon bucket of bison entrails on them during a public meeting.
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Some still threw buckets of snow into the small flames that lived.
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And customers at the Hutchinsons' shop have contributed more than £200 in loose change thrown into a collecting bucket on the counter.
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He threw in a bucket of groundbait, a pint of maggots, and fished all night without a bite.
use
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I now use a small plastic bucket to keep the worms and feed them on bread and milk.
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We were afraid to use the buckets behind one of the partitions as we did during the air raids.
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Instead, home records are located using the bucket index and overflow records via the home bucket and a tag.
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Soak in a solution of acid cleaner. Use the waste bucket after emptying and cleaning. 2.
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To rinse out the sponge, I simply use a bucket of water.
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I use old wooden buckets and half-barrels with noble histories.
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He would solve the problem of the lack of a lavatory by using a bucket in the unused part of the attic.
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In the past, pearl fishing was often carried out by travelling people who used a glass-bottomed bucket to locate them.
weep
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I wept buckets , but it wasn't until later that I realized what had happened.
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During a comical lesson on how to catch her man, Little Cog is told she must weep not buckets but spoons.
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When a girl was caught stealing sugar from the kitchen she wept buckets at the telling off she received.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
kick the bucket
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When I kick the bucket you'll be able to live on my life insurance.
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If Primrose was in a black mood she would like as not kick the bucket over.
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Jinny was so startled that she nearly kicked the bucket over.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It pays to have friendly neighbours or a large bucket at this stage.
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Most will walk home later, ashamed that their buckets are empty.
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On one wall you see a projected image of a man bathing himself from an enameled bucket .
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The bucket has teeth the size of a man, and room to park three stretch limos.
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The steamy yellow gruel in the bucket splashed out on to the kitchen floor.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As she was undressing it began to rain again, and soon it was bucketing down.
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At times Rubberneck wept, shed, and for no apparent reason, bucketing tears in dreadful fits of sadness.
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He bucketed across the fields and mounted the road at five-fifteen.
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The metal body jumped and bucketed beneath her on the ruts.
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Trent rode in first gear, headlight tunnelling into the forest gloom through which the rain bucketed.