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1bucket along — verb move fast He rushed down the hall to receive his guests The cars raced down the street • Syn: ↑rush, ↑hotfoot, ↑hasten, ↑hie, ↑speed, ↑race, ↑pelt a …
2bucket brigade — n. a line of persons passing buckets of water along in trying to put out a fire …
3Bucket Brigade Device — A Bucket Brigade is an analogue delay line, developed in 1969 by F. Sangster and K. Teer of the Philips Research Labs. It consists of a series of capacitances C0 to Cn. The stored analogue signal is moved along the line of capacitors one step at… …
4Bucket-brigade device — A bucket brigade or bucket brigade device (BBD) is a discrete time analogue delay line,[1] developed in 1969 by F. Sangster and K. Teer of the Philips Research Labs. It consists of a series of capacitance sections C0 to Cn. The stored analogue… …
5bucket — I. n 1. a pejorative or humorous term for a car or boat 2. British the mouth. In this sense the word is typically heard in working class speech in such phrases as shut your bucket! or stick this in your bucket! , recorded in the mid 1990s. 3.… …
6bucket — n. & v. n. 1 a a roughly cylindrical open container, esp. of metal, with a handle, used for carrying, drawing, or holding water etc. b the amount contained in this (need three buckets to fill the bath). 2 (in pl.) large quantities of liquid, esp …
7bucket shop — /ˈbʌkət ʃɒp/ (say bukuht shop) noun 1. a firm of share or commodity brokers whose business is speculative and conducted along questionable lines. 2. a business which offers services at a discount such as a travel agent which sells cheap airline… …
8bucket brigade — noun a) A primitive firefighting technique, in which a long line of people pass buckets of water hand to hand from the nearest water source to the site of a fire, in an attempt to douse it. b) By extension, any process in which something is… …
9bucket-handle fracture — a tear in the semilunar cartilage, along the middle portion, leaving a loop of cartilage lying in the intercondylar notch …
10bucket brigade — buck′et brigade n. a line of persons formed to extinguish a fire by passing along buckets of water • Etymology: 1910–15 …
