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Difference Between Bucket and Hooptie

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Bucket

A bucket is typically a watertight, vertical cylinder or truncated cone or square, with an open top and a flat bottom, attached to a semicircular carrying handle called the bail.A bucket is usually an open-top container. In contrast, a pail can have a top or lid and is a shipping container.

Hooptie

(slang) An old, worn-out car.

Bucket

A cylindrical vessel used for holding or carrying liquids or solids; a pail.

Bucket

The amount that a bucket can hold
One bucket of paint will be enough for the ceiling.

Bucket

A unit of dry measure in the US Customary System equal to 2 pecks (17.6 liters).
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Bucket

A receptacle on various machines, such as the scoop of a power shovel or the compartments on a water wheel, used to gather and convey material.

Bucket

(Basketball) A basket.

Bucket

To hold, carry, or put in a bucket
Bucket up water from a well.

Bucket

To ride (a horse) long and hard.

Bucket

To move or proceed rapidly and jerkily
Bucketing over the unpaved lane.
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Bucket

To make haste; hustle.

Bucket

A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.

Bucket

The amount held in this container.

Bucket

A large amount of liquid.

Bucket

A great deal of anything.

Bucket

A unit of measure equal to four gallons.

Bucket

Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).

Bucket

An insult term used in Toronto to refer to someone who habitually uses crack cocaine.

Bucket

(slang) An old vehicle that is not in good working order.

Bucket

The basket.

Bucket

A field goal.

Bucket

(variation management) A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.

Bucket

(computing) A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.

Bucket

A turbine blade driven by hot gas or steam.

Bucket

A bucket bag.

Bucket

The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted.

Bucket

The pitcher in certain orchids.

Bucket

A helmet.

Bucket

(transitive) To place inside a bucket.

Bucket

(transitive) To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.

Bucket

To rain heavily.

Bucket

To travel very quickly.

Bucket

(transitive) To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.

Bucket

To criticize vehemently; to denigrate.

Bucket

To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.

Bucket

To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.

Bucket

A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids.
The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket,The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well.

Bucket

A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc.

Bucket

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.

Bucket

The valved piston of a lifting pump.

Bucket

One of vanes on the rotor of a turbine.

Bucket

A bucketfull.

Bucket

To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets; as, to bucket water.

Bucket

To pour over from a bucket; to drench.

Bucket

To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.

Bucket

To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.

Bucket

A roughly cylindrical that is vessel open at the top

Bucket

The quantity contained in a bucket

Bucket

Put into a bucket

Bucket

Carry in a bucket

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