垃圾桶 — meaning in English

English meaning

• ashcan noun A bin used to collect ash, especially from coal or wood fires, before it is thrown away.
• bin noun A container used to hold or throw away items.
• trash noun Discarded material; garbage or rubbish.

Senses

垃圾桶 is used for these senses in English:

• ashcan A container for collecting ashes, especially from wood and coal fires, for eventual disposal elsewhere.
• bin A container for rubbish or waste.
• garbage can (North America) A receptacle, usually roughly cylindrical and wider at the top than at the bottom, which serves as a place to discard waste materials.
• garbage collector (US, Canada) A worker who removes refuse.
• laundry basket A container, often made of plastic, for holding and transporting clothing and household textiles, especially before and after being laundered.
• recycle bin (computing) In Microsoft Windows, a storage location for deleted files, from which they can be retrieved or permanently deleted.
• trash (chiefly, North American, metonym) A container into which things are discarded.

ashcan — full definition

1. noun A bin used to collect ash, especially from coal or wood fires, before it is thrown away.
2. noun A bin for rubbish.
3. noun A large type of firework that makes a loud bang.

bin — full definition

1. noun A container used to hold or throw away items.
2. verb To throw something away.
3. verb To sort data or items into discrete groups or categories.

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