bucketing

Coming down hard

Bucketing is heavy, persistent rain—the kind that seems to pour from buckets: It's been bucketing down all morning.

In data processing and statistics, bucketing means sorting items into categories or ranges (buckets) for analysis: We're bucketing customers by age group.

In finance, bucketing can refer to the fraudulent practice of a broker filling orders from inventory rather than the open market.

container

pail

Open-topped carrying vessel

organizing · separating · distributing · compartmentalizing · binning · classifying · allocating · segmenting · dividing · partitioning

rain

downpour

Intense precipitation event

pelting · drenching · soaking · hammering · lashing · driving · pounding · sheeting · teeming · chucking

pouring

decanting

Transferring liquid carefully

sloshing · ladling · bailing · scooping · filling · dispensing · splashing · dumping · funneling · channeling

overflow

spilling

Liquid flowing over edges

swamping · gushing · surging · cascading · streaming

Categories
Opposites
rainfall intensity

bucketingdrizzling

Light, gentle precipitation

sprinkling · misting · dry · light rain · spotting

data categorization approach

bucketingunbundling

Separating combined offerings individually

disaggregating · individualizing · streaming · granularizing · atomizing

movement/containment method

bucketingtrickling

Flowing in thin stream

dribbling · dripping · seeping · rationing · doling out

Phrases
Family

bucket, emptied, buckets, emptying, empties, bucketful, bucketed, bucketfuls

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G