plastic container
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1.3
- noun
- /ˈplæstɪk kənˈteɪnər/
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contenedor de plástico
- You can store leftovers safely in a plastic container to keep them fresh.
- plastic containers and packaging
- glass and plastic containers
- metal and plastic containers
These are plastic containers that hold the soil in place.
- These are plastic containers that hold the soil in place.
- The next step is to never ever eat food that has been above room temperature in a plastic container in a plastic bag.
- So they'd make that themselves and they'd fill these containers like plastic containers and they'd bury them.
- My sister and I, young and younger, shrieked until our mom lit the fat candle, it's plastic container painted to look like stained glass.
- If you prefer rotisserie chickens in a bag or or plastic container, but how about the container in the meantime?
Examples
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Once she'd retrieved it, she put it into a plastic container to avoid scratching it.
Fiction book (1992) -
Over 50 percent of the recyclable empty jars, bottles, cans, and plastic containers come from preparing food in the kitchen.
Academic text (1995) -
Tape up the hole in the top and then put it in a plastic container, he says.
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These are plastic containers that hold the soil in place.
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Near the stove, there is a plastic container where my mother keeps the tea.
Fiction book (1991) -
She finds this little plastic container with these pink and green candies inside.
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So once you have all your stuff gathered up, what you want to do is take your plants while they're still in their plastic container and arrange them in your pot.
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Pete worked the extracting machines, eventually pouring the honey into large plastic containers for later bottling.
Fiction book (1993) -
In Freiburg, there are several environmentally sound sales systems that reduce the consumption of plastic containers and packaging.
Academic text (2001) -
Erin is straddling a ditch, scooping clumps of gunky moss from the ditch into plastic containers.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
20
2.0
A brand of plastic boxes with lids used to keep food fresh
How Durable
Surface Forms
Morphology
plastic + container
The meaning 'a container made from plastic' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'plastic' (a manufactured polymer) with 'container' (a receptacle). This is a simple compositional noun phrase following common compounding/attributive patterns found cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand it.
Etymology
Plastic container comes from the words plastic and container: plastic is a material you can shape and container is something that holds things. So picture soft material being shaped into a box or tub to hold food or items, and that's why it means 'a container made from plastic' today.