Meaning of bucket list | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A list of tasks arising during a meeting that are put aside to be dealt with later.
   idiomatic
2. A list of things to accomplish before one's death.
   idiomatic
3. A list of things to accomplish before a certain deadline or in a certain time period.
   broadly, idiomatic
4. A data structure containing buckets used in a hashing algorithm.
   idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

“A "bucket" list is simply a formal procedure for recording items of concern that arise during work on other agenda items.”

“The figures and section drawings contain many of the most important locus numbers. We are not publishing a complete bucket list.”

“As you go through each step during the session, keep a "bucket list" of items that will need followup action”

“Focus on only one issue at a time. Whenever a new issue arises, don't ignore it, but don't allow the meeting to get distracted from the current topic. Always record each new issue on a posted "parking lot" or "bucket list" in the meeting room.”

“Q: What projects are you working on now and in the near future? [Rob Reiner] I'm hoping by the end of October to be shooting a film I've been working on called "The Bucket List," starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. […] They find out they are terminal. They know they don't have much longer to live. It's about working out the issues you need to work out before you die. […] Q: Do you have your own "bucket list"? [Reiner] You know, I don't. I've gone on with my life always trying to do positive things and make things better and the world better. […] I want to see my kids do well, but that's not a "bucket list"”

“I'm a helicopter pilot, not a writer. Still, it's been a dream of mine to someday write a book. It's ranked near the top on my list of things I want to do someday, my "bucket list," if you will.”

“"They told me hiking down into the canyon was on their bucket list." / She nodded. "I hear that all the time. People all over the world have the Grand Canyon on their bucket list." / Jake frowned. "I don't have a bucket list."”

“The beauty of bucket lists is that just as they represent us and our dreams, like us they also grow and change. You will be surprised once you have begun the bucket list journey at how opportunities spring up around you. New ideas beg to be added to your list. Even the act of completing a bucket list goal can be the source of further exploration.”

“a winter bucket list”

“Using a bucket list structure[…], the program sorts each incoming word serially, constructing a list within each of 256 buckets for good words of a given alphabetic range […]”

“In place of direct storage in the block we might substitute pointers to linked bucket lists of the elements having the same hash addresses. After hashing B#95;x and retrieving the pointer to the appropriate bucket list, we search the list for B#95;x, and if not found, add it to the end of the list.”

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