bucketing

Pluralbucketings

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of bucket.

   The support team is bucketing tickets by urgency before assigning them.

   Bucketing the data into age groups made the trends easier to see.

   Note

   Grammar sorts this participle's meanings. The weather use takes the empty subject it (it was bucketing all night), and the speed use takes no object (bucketing along the highway); both are informal. In Australian slang the verb turns transitive and means criticizing harshly, so fans can be heard bucketing the umpire. With a horse as its object, it means riding hard.

2. 2
   nouncountable or uncountable

   A data pre-processing technique in which values are sorted into a set of ranges.

   Before training the model, the team applied bucketing to customer income, reducing it to five bands.

   A coarser bucketing hides outliers but makes the chart easier to read.

   Similarbinning

   Note

   Data work uses it interchangeably with binning: a continuous measure such as income or age is cut into ranges, and each value is filed under its range. The word also counts, because a particular scheme of ranges is itself a bucketing, and one can be coarser or finer than another, trading detail for a chart that is easier to read.

3. 3
   noununcountable

   The act of moving material from one place to another with a bucket.

   The leaky hull needed constant bucketing to keep the boat afloat.

   After weeks of muddy bucketings, the crew finally got a pump for the trench.

   Similarbailing

   Note

   It is countable when it means a single round of the work: Henry Julian Hunter, reporting on the dwellings of rural labourers in 1870, set a clean job done with a spade against “the filthy ladlings and bucketings” of clearing a cesspool. Uncountable, it names the labor in general, the steady bucketing that keeps a leaking boat afloat.

4. 4
   nouncountable or uncountable

   A heavy downpour of liquid, such as a deluge of rain.

   Halfway up the trail we took a serious bucketing and were soaked to the skin.

   The overflow pipe gave the patio a bucketing every time the tank filled.

   Similardrenching, soaking, deluge

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