Wastebasket
noun
A container for waste, usually made of plastic or metal, found in homes, offices, etc.
She threw the crumpled paper into the wastebasket.
Often appears as...
- empty the wastebasket
- throw something in the wastebasket
noun
A container for waste, usually made of plastic or metal, found in homes, offices, etc.
She threw the crumpled paper into the wastebasket.
Often appears as...
- empty the wastebasket
- throw something in the wastebasket
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Indoor Use
Wastebaskets are commonly used inside homes and offices, not outdoors.
Place the wastebasket under your desk to keep the area tidy.
Pro Tip 2/3Not For Recycling
Separate recyclables from trash; wastebaskets usually hold non-recyclable waste.
Make sure you only put trash in the wastebasket; the recycling goes in the blue bin.
Pro Tip 3/3Casual Context
The term 'wastebasket' is casual; use 'waste container' for more formal or technical contexts.
Each cubicle has its own wastebasket for personal rubbish.
Pro Tip 1/3Indoor Use
Wastebaskets are commonly used inside homes and offices, not outdoors.
Place the wastebasket under your desk to keep the area tidy.
Pro Tip 2/3Not For Recycling
Separate recyclables from trash; wastebaskets usually hold non-recyclable waste.
Make sure you only put trash in the wastebasket; the recycling goes in the blue bin.
Pro Tip 3/3Casual Context
The term 'wastebasket' is casual; use 'waste container' for more formal or technical contexts.
Each cubicle has its own wastebasket for personal rubbish.
Pro Tip 1/3Indoor Use
Wastebaskets are commonly used inside homes and offices, not outdoors.
Place the wastebasket under your desk to keep the area tidy.
Pro Tip 2/3Not For Recycling
Separate recyclables from trash; wastebaskets usually hold non-recyclable waste.
Make sure you only put trash in the wastebasket; the recycling goes in the blue bin.
Pro Tip 3/3Casual Context
The term 'wastebasket' is casual; use 'waste container' for more formal or technical contexts.
Each cubicle has its own wastebasket for personal rubbish.
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Video examples
The design of the...
and they evolve into galaxies, and then later they get to the more expansive galaxies. And somewhere around this period is when our solar system started forming. And it's maturing up to the present time. And there's some spectacular things. And this wastebasket part, that's to represent
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DIY - The Awareness Game...
coordination but does it work let's find out let's run our experiment on the greatest sport ever invented set up a wastebasket crumpled up some pieces of paper and try to make some baskets
Video examples
The design of the...
and they evolve into galaxies, and then later they get to the more expansive galaxies. And somewhere around this period is when our solar system started forming. And it's maturing up to the present time. And there's some spectacular things. And this wastebasket part, that's to represent
Video examples
DIY - The Awareness Game...
coordination but does it work let's find out let's run our experiment on the greatest sport ever invented set up a wastebasket crumpled up some pieces of paper and try to make some baskets
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Quote examples
Susan Orlean
American Journalist
Everything rational and sensible abandons me when I try to throw out photographs. Time and time again, I hold one over a wastebasket, and then find it impossible to release my fingers and let the picture drop and disappear.
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Donald Knuth
American Scientist
My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine.
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Erma Bombeck
American Journalist
Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead.
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Margaret Atwood
Canadian Novelist
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
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John Pople
English Scientist
I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover.
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Imogen Cunningham
American Photographer
I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.
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Robert Orben
American Entertainer
Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.
Quote examples
Susan Orlean
American Journalist
Everything rational and sensible abandons me when I try to throw out photographs. Time and time again, I hold one over a wastebasket, and then find it impossible to release my fingers and let the picture drop and disappear.
Quote examples
Donald Knuth
American Scientist
My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine.
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Erma Bombeck
American Journalist
Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead.
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Margaret Atwood
Canadian Novelist
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
Quote examples
John Pople
English Scientist
I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover.
Quote examples
Imogen Cunningham
American Photographer
I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.
Quote examples
Robert Orben
American Entertainer
Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.
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