trash bin
- noun
- /træʃ bɪn/
- Specialized
:
papelera
- If you accidentally delete a file, check your trash bin to see if you can recover it.
Examples
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(Steve wipes a silent tear from his cheek, moves the Final Draft file named "Le Petite Morte: Little People, Big Blood" to the trash bin on his Lenovo desktop.
Blog text (34) -
Make sure to empty your trash bin regularly to free up space on your computer.
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I bent to retrieve the paper and tossed it into a trash bin, and then we walked out of the Square and headed toward a diner I knew of, a couple of blocks away.
Fiction book (1998) -
After organizing his documents, he found several old files in the trash bin that he could restore.
Synonyms
1
2.9
A place on a computer where deleted files stay before they are removed for good
Antonyms
How Recoverable
- Specialized
1
3.8
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a folder for deleted files' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'trash' (rubbish) with 'bin' (a receptacle for waste): it metaphorically extends the physical notion of throwing things away to digital files. This metaphorical extension is common across languages and computing interfaces, so a B1 learner who knows both constituent words will very likely infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The virtual trash bin on a computer borrows the picture of the real bin where you put trash for a while. Files put there can often be 'restored' or 'permanently removed', so the phrase now means 'a folder that stores deleted files temporarily'.