recycle bin

English

Etymology

First sense appears c. 1971, in the Arizona Daily Sun. Computing sense appears in 1995 with the Windows 95 operating system.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

recycle bin (plural recycle bins)

1. A container in which items to be recycled may be placed.
2. (computing) In Microsoft Windows, a storage location for deleted files, from which they can be retrieved or permanently deleted.

Synonyms

• recycling bin (sense 1)
• trash (sense 2, on other operating systems and emails)

Translations

container

• Armenian: աղբաման (hy) (aġbaman)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 資源回收筒 / 资源回收筒 (zīyuán huíshōu tǒng)

• Finnish: kierrätysastia
• French: corbeille (fr) f
• German: Papierkorb (de) m
• Hungarian: lomtár (hu), hulladékgyűjtő (hu), (szelektív) kuka/​szemét/​szemetes/​szemétláda/​szemetesláda
• Korean: 휴지통 (ko) (hyujitong)
• Macedonian: ка́нта за рецикли́рање f (kánta za reciklíranje)
• Norwegian: papirkurv
• Romanian: coș de reciclare n
• Russian: му́сорная корзи́на f (músornaja korzína), корзи́на (ru) f (korzína) (для му́сор)
• Swedish: papperskorg (sv) c, soptunna (sv) c, återvinningscontainer c
• Turkish: geri dönüşüm kutusu

(computing) in Microsoft Windows, a storage location for deleted files

• Arabic: سَلَّة الْمَحْذُوفَات f (salla(t) al-maḥḏūfāt)
• Armenian: աղբաման (hy) (aġbaman)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 資源回收筒 / 资源回收筒 (zīyuán huíshōu tǒng), 回收站 (huíshōuzhàn)

• Finnish: roskakori (fi)
• Galician: papeleira de reciclaxe f
• German: Papierkorb (de) m
• Hungarian: lomtár (hu)
• Japanese: ごみ箱 (ja) (ごみばこ, gomibako)
• Polish: kosz (pl) m
• Portuguese: reciclagem (pt) f
• Romanian: coș de gunoi n
• Russian: му́сорная корзи́на f (músornaja korzína)
• Spanish: papelera de reciclaje f
• Swedish: papperskorg (sv) c
• Thai: ถังรีไซเคิล (tǎng-rii-sai-kə̂n)
• Turkish: geri dönüşüm kutusu
• Ukrainian: кошик (uk) m (košyk)
• Vietnamese: thùng rác