bucketing

Pluralbucketings

1. 1
   verb

   The -ing form of bucket. Use it after am, is, are, was or were, or to name the action.

   We spent the morning bucketing water out of the flooded basement.

   The kids were bucketing water out of the leaky boat.

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2. 2
   nouncountable or uncountable

   A way of preparing data by sorting numbers into groups.

   Like turning exact test scores into A, B, and C grades.

   We used bucketing to sort the ages into groups like 20 to 29.

   Two bucketings of the same data can show different patterns.

   Similarbinning

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3. 3
   noununcountable

   Moving stuff from one place to another with a bucket.

   The bucketing went on for hours before the basement was dry.

   Clearing the pond by hand meant a lot of slow, heavy bucketing.

   Similarbailing

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4. 4
   nouncountable or uncountable

   A lot of liquid, like rain, pouring down hard.

   We got caught in a real bucketing on the way home from school.

   The garden was dry, but last night's bucketing soaked it.

   Similardrenching, soaking, deluge

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