The difference between Bucket and Shoot
When used as nouns, bucket means a container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items, whereas shoot means the emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
When used as verbs, bucket means to place inside a bucket, whereas shoot means to fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).
check bellow for the other definitions of Bucket and Shoot
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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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Shoot as a verb (transitive):
To launch a projectile. To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile). To fire (a projectile). To fire a projectile at (a person or target). To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile. To ejaculate. To begin to speak. To discharge a missile; said of a weapon. To dismiss or do away with. To photograph. To film.
Examples:
"to shoot a gun"
"The man, in a desperate bid for freedom, grabbed his gun and started shooting anyone he could."
"The hunter shot the deer to harvest its meat."
"They shot at a target."
"He shoots better than he rides."
"After a very short time, he shot his load over the carpet."
"Can I ask you a question?" "Shoot."
"The gun shoots well."
"His idea was shot on sight."
"He shot the couple in a variety of poses."
"He shot seventeen stills."
"The film was mostly shot in France."
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Shoot as a verb (intransitive):
To move or act quickly or suddenly. To move very quickly and suddenly. To go over or pass quickly through. To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute. To penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation. To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain. To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify. To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit. To send to someone.
Examples:
"After an initial lag, the experimental group's scores shot past the control group's scores in the fourth week."
"'shoot the rapids"
"a shooting pain in my leg"
"I'll shoot you an email with all the details"
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Shoot as a verb (sport):
To act or achieve. To lunge. To deviate from kayfabe, either intentionally or accidentally; to actually connect with unchoreographed fighting blows and maneuvers, or speak one's mind (instead of an agreed script). To make the stated score.
Examples:
"In my round of golf yesterday I shot a 76."
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Shoot as a verb (surveying):
To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
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Shoot as a verb (transitive, intransitive, colloquial):
To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
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Shoot as a verb (nautical):
To develop, move forward. To germinate; to bud; to sprout. To grow; to advance. To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee. To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; often with out.
Examples:
"to shoot up rapidly"
"A plant shoots out a bud."
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Shoot as a verb:
To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
Examples:
"The land shoots into a promontory."
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Shoot as a verb (carpentry):
To plane straight; to fit by planing.
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Shoot as a verb:
To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.
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Shoot as a noun:
The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
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Shoot as a noun:
A photography session.
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Shoot as a noun:
A hunt or shooting competition.
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Shoot as a noun (professional wrestling, slang):
An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
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Shoot as a noun:
The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
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Shoot as a noun:
A rush of water; a rapid.
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Shoot as a noun (mining):
A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
Examples:
"rfquotek Knight"
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Shoot as a noun (weaving):
A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
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Shoot as a noun:
A shoat; a young pig.
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Shoot as a noun:
An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.