bucket

seau

Récipient muni d’une anse, généralement utilisé pour transporter de l’eau, du sable ou d’autres matières.

En anglais simple : A container with a handle, usually used to carry water, sand, or other materials.

• Bring me a bucket, please.
• She carried water from the well in a bucket.
• The children left their buckets on the beach.

Synonymes : pail

Expressions courantes : plastic bucket, bucket and spade, empty bucket

seau

Quantité d’une matière qui remplit un seau.

En anglais simple : The amount of something that fits inside one such container.

• We need a bucket of water.
• He poured two buckets of sand into the hole.
• The cow produced almost a bucket of milk.

Comment l'utiliser : a bucket of something (She poured a bucket of cold water over the steps.)

Synonymes : bucketful

Expressions courantes : bucket of water, bucket of sand, full bucket

torrents

Une très grande quantité de liquide.

En anglais simple : A very large amount of liquid.

• It rained buckets all afternoon.
• He was sweating buckets in the heat.
• She cried buckets when her dog died.

Expressions courantes : rain buckets, sweat buckets, cry buckets

pleuvoir à verse

Pleuvoir très fort.

En anglais simple : To rain very heavily.

• It’s starting to bucket down.
• It bucketed down throughout our walk.
• Is it still bucketing down outside?

Comment l'utiliser : it buckets down (It was bucketing down when we left.)

Synonymes : pour

Expressions courantes : bucket down, bucket with rain

transporter au seau, vider au seau

Puiser ou déplacer de l’eau ou une autre matière à l’aide d’un seau.

En anglais simple : To lift or move water or another substance using a container with a handle.

• They bucketed water from the well.
• We bucketed the floodwater out of the cellar.
• He spent the morning bucketing sand into the truck.

Comment l'utiliser : bucket something out of something (We bucketed water out of the boat.)

Expressions courantes : bucket water, bucket something out