The difference between Bucket and Hurtle
When used as nouns, bucket means a container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items, whereas hurtle means a fast movement in literal or figurative sense.
When used as verbs, bucket means to place inside a bucket, whereas hurtle means to move rapidly, violently, or without control.
check bellow for the other definitions of Bucket and Hurtle
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Bucket as a noun:
A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
Examples:
"I need a bucket to carry the water from the well."
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Bucket as a noun:
The amount held in this container.
Examples:
"The horse drank a whole bucket of water."
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Bucket as a noun (UK, archaic):
A unit of measure equal to four gallons.
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Bucket as a noun:
Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
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Bucket as a noun (slang):
An old vehicle that is not in good working order.
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Bucket as a noun (basketball, informal):
The basket.
Examples:
"The forward drove to the bucket."
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Bucket as a noun (basketball, informal):
A field goal.
Examples:
"We can't keep giving up easy buckets."
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Bucket as a noun (variation management):
A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
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Bucket as a noun (computing):
A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
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Bucket as a noun (informal, chiefly, plural):
A large amount of liquid.
Examples:
"It rained buckets yesterday."
"I was so nervous that I sweated buckets."
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Bucket as a noun:
A bucket bag.
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Bucket as a noun:
The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted.
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Bucket as a noun:
The pitcher in certain orchids.
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Bucket as a verb (transitive):
To place inside a bucket.
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Bucket as a verb (transitive):
To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.
Examples:
"to bucket water"
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Bucket as a verb (intransitive, informal):
To rain heavily.
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Bucket as a verb (intransitive, informal):
To travel very quickly.
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Bucket as a verb (computing, transitive):
To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.
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Bucket as a verb (transitive):
To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
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Bucket as a verb (transitive, UK, US, rowing):
To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.
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Hurtle as a verb (intransitive):
To move rapidly, violently, or without control.
Examples:
"The car hurtled down the hill at 90 miles per hour."
"Pieces of broken glass hurtled through the air."
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Hurtle as a verb (intransitive, archaic):
To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle.
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Hurtle as a verb (intransitive, archaic):
To make a threatening sound, like the clash of arms; to make a sound as of confused clashing or confusion; to resound.
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Hurtle as a verb (transitive):
To hurl or fling; to throw hard or violently.
Examples:
"He hurtled the wad of paper angrily at the trash can and missed by a mile."
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Hurtle as a verb (intransitive, archaic):
To push; to jostle; to hurl.
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Hurtle as a noun:
A fast movement in literal or figurative sense.
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Hurtle as a noun:
A clattering sound.