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bucketing

bucketing noun: the act of moving material using a bucket. Also the present participle and gerund of bucket.

Noun

bucketing (countable and uncountable, plural bucketings)

  1. The act of moving material using a bucket.
    • […] by means of a spade only, without any of the filthy ladlings and bucketings which accompany the clearing a cesspool.1870, Henry Julian Hunter, Inquiry on the state of the Dwellings of Rural Labourers, page 142
  2. A heavy pouring down of liquid; a deluge.
    • […] it was still obviously still pouring not to^([sic]) far away and they hoped to complete their journey without being further delayed by another bucketing.2017, Don Reis, The Glorious Effervescence of Blubbo, page 66
  3. Synonym of binning (“a data pre-processing technique”).
    Synonyms:
    binning

Also used as

bucketing is also the present participle and gerund of bucket.

Synonyms of bucketing

Forms of bucketing

pluralbucketings

Phrases with bucketing

Questions about bucketing

What does bucketing mean?
Bucketing means the act of moving material using a bucket.
What part of speech is bucketing?
Bucketing is a noun.
What is the plural of bucketing?
The plural of bucketing is bucketings.

Words near bucketing in the dictionary

  1. bucketers
  2. bucketful
  3. bucketfuls
  4. buckethead
  5. bucketheads
  6. bucketing
  7. bucketing about
  8. bucketing down
  9. bucketings
  10. bucketization
  11. bucketizations

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