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