buckets (Meaning)
buckets
one of the receptacles on the rim of a waterwheel, to ride (a horse) hard, to deal with in a bucket shop, a typically cylindrical vessel for catching, holding, or carrying liquids or solids, a usually round container for catching, holding, or carrying liquids or solids, to drive hurriedly or roughly, to rain very heavily, something resembling a bucket, one of the vanes of a turbine rotor, bucketful, to move about haphazardly or irresponsibly, basket sense 3b, to draw or lift in buckets, one of the cups of an endless-belt conveyor, the scoop of an excavating machine, hustle, hurry, an object for collecting, scooping, or carrying something, bucket seat, to move roughly or jerkily
Synonyms & Antonyms of buckets
Synonyms:
Antonyms:
- shreds
- scraps
- dabs
- mites
- bits
- drops
- tastes
- ounces
- motes
- mouthfuls
- traces
- drams
- glimmers
- suspicions
- handsful
- grains
- little
- particles
- dots
- molecules
- sprinklings
- hints
- handfuls
- specks
- shadows
- touches
- spots
- licks
- flecks
- strains
- sprinkles
- granules
- shades
- scruples
- driblets
- crumbs
- atoms
- streaks
- nips
- aces
- rays
- pinches
- peanuts
- fragments
Synonyms:
- heaps
- quite a bit
- slews
- potfuls
- fistfuls
- masses
- sights
- bushels
- all kinds (of)
- packs
- basketfuls
- boatloads
- messes
- abundances
- pecks
- barrels
- shiploads
- gobs
- basketsful
- multiplicities
- reams
- yards
- plenties
- sheaves
- oodles
- volumes
- hundred
- lashings
- pots
- truckloads
- platefuls
- good deals
- scads
- wads
- profusions
- wealths
- carloads
- myriads
- stores
- mountains
Antonyms:
Synonyms:
- hosts
- legions
- rashes
- plentitudes
- scores
- excesses
- presses
- hordes
- embarrassments
- herds
- redundancies
- mobs
- thousands
- passels
- deluges
- plethoras
- surpluses
- droves
- surfeits
- swarms
- overabundances
- overflows
- bevies
- lashins
- superfluities
- million
- superabundances
- throngs
- plenitudes
- oversupplies
- spates
- overages
- seas
- floods
- much
- millions
- bonanzas
- epidemics
- multitudes
- crushes
- plagues
- overmuch
- crowds
- zillions
- flocks
- trillions
- armies
Antonyms:
buckets Sentence Examples
- The children filled their buckets with water and splashed each other playfully.
- The farmers worked tirelessly, carrying heavy buckets of grain to the barn.
- The old well had a large bucket attached to a rope for drawing water.
- The laundress carried two wooden buckets filled with freshly washed clothes.
- The fire engine's buckets could hold thousands of gallons of water to extinguish flames.
- The gardener placed buckets under his plants to collect rainwater.
- The hikers filled their collapsible buckets with fresh mountain stream water.
- The painter emptied several buckets of blue paint into a large container.
- The construction workers used buckets to move sand and gravel.
- The child's sandcastle was adorned with small plastic buckets filled with seashells.
FAQs About the word buckets
one of the receptacles on the rim of a waterwheel, to ride (a horse) hard, to deal with in a bucket shop, a typically cylindrical vessel for catching, holding,
piles, rafts, bundles, quantities, stacks, hundreds, bunches, chunks, dozens, tons
shreds, scraps, dabs, mites, bits, drops, tastes,ounces, motes, mouthfuls
The children filled their buckets with water and splashed each other playfully.
The farmers worked tirelessly, carrying heavy buckets of grain to the barn.
The old well had a large bucket attached to a rope for drawing water.
The laundress carried two wooden buckets filled with freshly washed clothes.
