English Dictionary

bucket brigade

名詞

広義

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.

日本語の意味

初期の消防技法において、水源から火元へ水の入ったバケツを手渡して運ぶために人々が連なって作る隊列。 / 火災現場で、火を消すために水桶を次々と手渡しで運ぶ人の列。

When the barn caught fire, neighbors formed a bucket brigade to pass buckets of water from the pond and managed to prevent the flames from spreading.

納屋が燃え始めたとき、近所の人たちは池からバケツを手渡しでつなぐバケツリレーを作り、炎が広がるのを防いだ。

意味（1）

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.

意味（2）

(by extension) any process in which something is passed along a chain.

意味（3）

(electronics) A discrete-time analogue delay line that moves a signal along a line of capacitors, one step at each clock cycle.

bucket brigades （ plural ）