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词汇 wastebasket
释义 wastebasket
noun[ C ]
USuk /ˈweɪstˌbɑː.skɪt/ us /ˈweɪstˌbæs.kət/(UKwastepaper basket)
A2
an open container that stands on the floor inside buildings and is used for putting rubbishin, especially paper废纸篓,废纸箱
 
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Containers for waste
ashcan
bag
bin
bin bag
bin liner
bottle bank
dustbin
dustbin bag
garbage bag
garbage can
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litter box
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skip
trash bag
trash can
trash can liner
wastepaper basket
wheelie bin

wastebasket | American Dictionary


wastebasket
noun[ C ]
us/ˈweɪstˌbæs·kɪt/
a container to hold paper or other small things you want to get rid of

Examples of wastebasket


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The word "ashcan" is an older synonym for wastebasket, trashcan, or other garbage receptacle, intended for ashes from a fire.
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They constitute an evolutionary grade of animals, a wastebasket taxon for any archosaur other than a crocodilian, a pterosaur, or a dinosaur (any basal archosaur).
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The unit of additive conjunction can be seen as a wastebasket for irrelevant alternatives.
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However, the spittoons function merely as wastebaskets; the last time the spittoon was used for its customary purpose was in the early 20th century.
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Some researchers have cautioned against psychogenic amnesia becoming a wastebasket diagnosis when organic amnesia is not apparent.
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The multi-tiered treehouse features a rope bridge to a separate, smaller treehouse, a waterslide and wastebaskets.
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Wastebasket taxa are by definition either paraphyletic or polyphyletic, and are therefore not considered to be valid taxa under strict cladistic rules of taxonomy.
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This is a wastebasket article combining rights that were too important to remain unmentioned, but too unimportant to warrant a separate article status.
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The genus thus functioned as a typical wastebasket taxon.
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The genus once served as a wastebasket taxon for many agaric mushrooms with a white spore print, gills attached to the stem, and an annulus.
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This subfamily has historically served as much of a wastebasket for trichomycterids that lack the specializations of the other subfamilies.
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While purpose-made collars can be purchased from veterinarians or pet stores, they can also be made from plastic and cardboard or by using plastic flowerpots, wastebaskets, buckets or lampshades.
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Sometimes, during taxonomic revisions, the wastebasket taxa can be salvaged after doing thorough research on its members, and then imposing tighter restrictions on what continues to be included.
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The genus is at least in part a wastebasket taxon, and revision will likely result in the renaming of a number of species to different genera.
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As with all bagless vacuums, the filter needs to be cleaned after each use but placed into a wastebasket if it is too dirty to clean.
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