The difference between Bucket and Pail
When used as nouns, bucket means a container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items, whereas pail means a vessel of wood, tin, plastic, etc., usually cylindrical and having a handle -- used especially for carrying liquids, for example water or milk.
Bucket is also verb with the meaning: to place inside a bucket.
check bellow for the other definitions of Bucket and Pail
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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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Pail as a noun:
A vessel of wood, tin, plastic, etc., usually cylindrical and having a handle -- used especially for carrying liquids, for example water or milk; a bucket (sometimes with a cover).
Examples:
"The milkmaid carried a pail of milk in each hand."
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Pail as a noun:
(In technical use) A closed (covered) cylindrical shipping container.