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Meaning: ; Alistoftasksarisingduring ameetingthat areput asideto bedealt withlater.[from late 20th c.]Coordinate term:to-do list1978, James D. Anderson, Ezra Earl Jones, “The Primary Task of Ministry”, inThe Management of Ministry, San Francisco, Calif.:Harper & Row,→ISBN,page151:A "bucket"listis simply a formal procedure for recording items of concern that arise during work on other agenda items.[1990,Eric M. Meyers,Carol Meyers, James F. Strange, “Introduction”, inExcavations at the Ancient Synagogue of Gush Ḥalav(Meiron Excavation Project; V), Winona Lake, Ind.: [F]or theAmerican Schools of Oriental ResearchbyEisenbrauns,→ISBN,page 1:The figures and section drawings contain many of the most important locus numbers. We are not publishing a completebucket list.Apparently used to refer to a comprehensive list.]1997, Suzan L[inn]Jackson, “Getting Started”, inThe ISO14001 Implementation Guide: Creating an Integrated Management System, New York, N.Y.:John Wiley & Sons,→ISBN,page226:As you go through each step during the session, keep a "bucket list" of items that will need followup action2004, Tom Kendrick, “Meeting Execution”, inThe Project Management Tool Kit: 100 Tips and Techniques for Getting the Job Done Right, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Amacom,American Management Association, published2010,→ISBN,page87:Focus ononly 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.; ; A list ofthingstoaccomplishbefore one'sdeath.[from late 20th c.]Coordinate terms:dream list,wish list2006September 2, Peterson Gonzaga, “Reiner gets animated in ‘Everybody’s Hero’”, inHerald News, West Paterson, N.J.:Gannett,→ISSN,→OCLC,page D4, columns3–4: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," starringJack NicholsonandMorgan 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"2009August 10, Robert Deeter, chapter 8, inBullseye: Journal of a Black Hawk Pilot, Bloomington, Ind.:AuthorHouse,→ISBN,page102: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.2010, Annalisa Daughety, chapter 23, inLove is Grand(A Walk in the Park; 3), Uhrichsville, Oh.: Barbour Publishing,→ISBN,page168:"They told me hiking down into the canyon was on theirbucket list." / She nodded. "I hear that all the time. People all over the world have the Grand Canyon on theirbucket list." / Jake frowned. "I don't have abucket list."2014, Lara Krupika, “How to Use this Book”, inBucket List Living for Moms: Becoming a More Adventurous Parent, Cork, County Cork: BookBaby,→ISBN:The beauty ofbucket listsis that just as they represent us and our dreams, like us they also grow and change. You will be surprised once you have begun thebucket listjourney at how opportunities spring up around you. New ideas beg to be added to your list. Even the act of completing abucket listgoal can be the source of further exploration.(by extension)A list of things to accomplish before acertaindeadlineor in a certaintimeperiod.a winterbucket list; (computer science)Adata structurecontainingbucketsusedin ahashingalgorithm.[from mid 20th c.]1960July 25, J. C. Olney,Feat, an Inventory Program for Information Retrieval(FN-4018), Santa Monica, Calif.:System Development Corporation; quoted in Mary Elizabeth Stevens, “Operational Considerations”, inAutomatic Indexing: A State-of-the-Art Report(National Bureau of Standards Monograph;91), Washington, D.C.:National Bureau of Standards,United States Department of Commerce, 30 March 1965, reissued February 1970,→OCLC,page170:Using abucket liststructure[…], the program sorts each incoming word serially, constructing a list within each of 256 buckets for good words of a given alphabetic range[…]1975, Terrence W. Pratt, “Data”, inProgramming Languages: Design and Implementation, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.:Prentice-Hall,→ISBN,page83:In place of direct storage in the block we might substitute pointers to linkedbucket listsof the elements having the same hash addresses. After hashingBx{\displaystyle B_{x}}and retrieving the pointer to the appropriatebucket list, we search the list forBx{\displaystyle B_{x}}, and if not found, add it to the end of the list.
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