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recycle bin

recycle bin noun: a container in which items to be recycled may be placed.

Noun

recycle bin (plural recycle bins)

  1. A container in which items to be recycled may be placed.
    Synonyms:
    recycling bin, trash
  2. In Microsoft Windows, a storage location for deleted files, from which they can be retrieved or permanently deleted.

recycle bin meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Kannada and Arabic

recycle bin in Hindi

container
पुनर्चक्रण पात्र punarcakraṇ pātra

recycle bin in Tamil

மீள்சுழல் தொட்டி

recycle bin in Kannada

ಮರುಬಳಕೆ ತೊಟ್ಟಿ, ಮರುಬಳಕೆ ಬುಟ್ಟಿ

recycle bin in Arabic

(computing) in Microsoft Windows, a storage location for deleted files
سَلَّة الْمَحْذُوفَات
More languagesFewer languages
recycle bin in Thai
ถังรีไซเคิล tǎng-rii-sai-kə̂n
recycle bin in Vietnamese
thùng rác

Synonyms of recycle bin

Forms of recycle bin

pluralrecycle bins

Origin of recycle bin

First sense appears c. 1971, in the Arizona Daily Sun. Computing sense appears in 1995 with the Windows 95 operating system.

Questions about recycle bin

What does recycle bin mean?
Recycle bin means a container in which items to be recycled may be placed.
What is recycle bin in Hindi?
Recycle bin in Hindi is पुनर्चक्रण पात्र (punarcakraṇ pātra). See Recycle bin meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is recycle bin?
Recycle bin is a noun.
What is the plural of recycle bin?
The plural of recycle bin is recycle bins.

Words near recycle bin in the dictionary

  1. recyclable
  2. recyclables
  3. recyclate
  4. recyclates
  5. recycle
  6. recycle bin
  7. recycle bins
  8. recycle day
  9. recycle days
  10. recycle man
  11. recycle men

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Adapted from Wiktionary: recycle bin (page history and authors); recycle bin (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); recycle bin (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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