wastepaper basket

n. See wastebasket.

wastepaper basket

wastepaper bin

n (Furniture) chiefly Brit another word for wastebasket

Thesaurus

Noun

wastepaper basket - a container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbishcircular file, waste basket, wastebasket, waste-paper basketcontainer - any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another)

Translations

废纸篓

waste

(weist) verb to fail to use (something) fully or in the correct or most useful way. You're wasting my time with all these stupid questions.浪费 noun1. material which is or has been made useless. industrial waste from the factories; (also adjective) waste material.废料2. (the) act of wasting. That was a waste of an opportunity.浪费3. a huge stretch of unused or infertile land, or of water, desert, ice etc. the Arctic wastes.荒地ˈwastage (-tidʒ) noun loss by wasting; the amount wasted. Of the total amount, roughly 20% was wastage. 浪费，损耗量 ˈwasteful adjective involving or causing waste. Throwing away that bread is wasteful.浪费的ˈwastefully adverb浪费地ˈwastefulness noun浪费waste paper paper which is thrown away as not being useful. Offices usually have a great deal of waste paper.废纸wastepaper basket (ˈweispeipə) a basket or other (small) container for waste paper. Put those old letters in the wastepaper basket.废纸篓waste pipe (ˈweispaip) a pipe to carry off waste material, or water from a sink etc. The kitchen waste pipe is blocked. 下水管道，排污水管 waste away to decay; to lose weight, strength and health etc. He is wasting away because he has a terrible disease. 变得衰弱（消瘦）