bucket brigade
The long line of people, in a primitive firefighting technique, who pass buckets of…The long line of people, in a primitive firefighting technique, who pass buckets of water hand-to-hand from the nearest water source to the site of a fire, in an attempt to douse it.
» Children joined the bucket brigade, eager to help their parents fight the flames.
Meaning
3 sensesThe long line of people, in a primitive firefighting technique, who pass buckets of water hand-to-hand from the nearest water source to the site of a fire, in an attempt to douse it.
Eimerkette, Löschkette
(broadly, figuratively)Any process in which something is passed along a chain.
A discrete-time analogue delay line that moves a signal along a line of capacitors, one step at each clock cycle.
Eimerkettenspeicher
Examples
1 sentencesChildren joined the bucket brigade, eager to help their parents fight the flames.
Translations
1 languagesBy meaning 2
Forms
plural: bucket brigades| Singular | bucket brigade |
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| Plural | bucket brigades |
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