bucket vs fly

bucket

verb
  • To travel very quickly. 

  • To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body. 

  • To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly. 

  • To rain heavily. 

  • To place inside a bucket. 

  • To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets. 

  • To criticize vehemently; to denigrate. 

  • To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items. 

noun
  • A bucket bag. 

  • A helmet. 

  • Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container). 

  • A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items. 

  • A great deal of anything. 

  • A turbine blade driven by hot gas or steam. 

  • A large amount of liquid. 

  • The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted. 

  • an insult term used in Toronto to refer to someone who habitually uses crack cocaine. 

  • An old vehicle that is not in good working order. 

  • A field goal. 

  • The amount held in this container. 

  • A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key. 

  • The basket. 

  • The pitcher in certain orchids. 

  • A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement. 

fly

verb
  • To travel or proceed very fast; to hasten. 

  • To be in the winged adult stage. 

  • To hunt with a hawk. 

  • To be accepted, come about or work out. 

  • To proceed with great success. 

  • To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly. 

  • To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like. 

  • To display (a flag) on a flagpole. 

  • To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb). 

  • To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface. 

adj
  • Well dressed, smart in appearance; in style, cool. 

  • Beautiful; displaying physical beauty. 

noun
  • A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power printing press for doing the same work. 

  • A wing. 

  • A type of small, light, fast horse-drawn carriage that can be hired for transportation (sometimes pluralised flys). 

  • Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock. 

  • A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect. 

  • The butterfly stroke (plural is normally flys). 

  • A strip of material (sometimes hiding zippers or buttons) at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, underpants, bootees, etc. 

  • Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges). 

  • A butterfly (combination of four options). 

  • An act of flying. 

  • One of the upper screens of a stage in a theatre. 

  • The person who took the printed sheets from the press. 

  • A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent. 

  • The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn. 

  • waste cotton 

  • Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless species), also called true flies. 

  • A simple dance in which the hands are shaken in the air, popular in the 1960s. 

  • An exercise that involves wide opening and closing of the arms perpendicular to the shoulders. 

  • A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest. (also flye) 

  • Any similar, but not closely related insect, such as a dragonfly or butterfly. 

  • That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card. 

  • In a knitting machine, the piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch.. 

  • The free edge of a flag. 

  • The horizontal length of a flag. 

  • A fly ball. 

  • The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows. 

  • Related terms: flyman 

  • A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk. 

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