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Definition: Trash Can |
Trash CanNoun1. A bin that holds rubbish until it is collected. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Trash CanSynonyms: ashbin (n), ashcan (n), dustbin (n), garbage can (n), trash barrel (n), trash bin (n), wastebin (n). (additional references) |
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Clever | My next house will have no kitchen---just vending machines and a large trash can. (references; author: unknown) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Three ballerinas perform pas de trois as they cast ballots into trash can, atop the Empire State Building] / World Telegram & Sun p. Credit: Library of Congress; photo by Herman Hiller.. |
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| Play | Caption |
 | Banging a metal lid onto a metal trash can. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
trash can | 729 | decorative trash can | 17 |
kitchen trash can | 69 | plastic trash can | 16 |
stainless steel trash can | 58 | bullet trash can | 16 |
metal trash can | 31 | step on trash can | 14 |
wooden trash can | 30 | stainless trash can | 14 |
outdoor trash can | 29 | steel trash can | 12 |
rubbermaid trash can | 28 | trash can icon | 12 |
commercial trash can | 23 | trash can lid | 9 |
trash can punch | 20 | galvanized trash can | 8 |
trash can cart | 18 | trash can sinatra | 7 |
trash can liner | 18 | polder trash can | 3 |
wood trash can | 18 | trash can umbra | 2 |
toter trash can | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "trash can"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | кофа за отпадъци (litter bin), кошче за отпадъци (litter bin, tidy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Abfalleimer (dust bin, dustbin, dustbins, garbage can, garbage canUS, litter bin, trash canUS, wastebasket). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szeméttartó (garbage can, rubbish bin, waste bin), szemétláda (creep, dustbin, refuse bin, scuzzbag, yuck, yuk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ashtray ancay ведро для сухого мусора, мусорный ящик (ash can, dust bin, dustbin, garbage can, trash-can), мусорная урна. (various references) kanta za đubre. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-h-n-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: anarchs. | |
-2 letters: anarch, arhats, ashcan, carats, chants, charas, charts, nachas, ratans, sancta, snatch, stanch, starch. | |
-3 letters: antas, antra, arhat, canst, cants, carat, carns, carts, chant, chars, chart, chats, crash, haars, hansa, hants, harts, narcs, natch, ranch, rants, ratan, ratch, sacra, saran, scant, scart, sharn, snath, tachs, tahrs, tarns, trans, trash. | |
-4 letters: aahs, acta, acts. | |
-5 letters: aah. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-h-n-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: anarchist, anthraces, cantharis, handcarts. | |
+2 letters: anarchists, charlatans, crankshaft, handcrafts. | |
+3 letters: anarchistic, anthracenes, anthracites, anthracnose, batrachians, cantharides, catarrhines, christiania, crankshafts, handicrafts, machinators, pyracanthas, thrasonical, tragacanths. | |
+4 letters: antechambers, anthracnoses, brachiations, cantharidins, charlatanism, christianias, gnatcatchers, saccharinity, transhumance. | |
+5 letters: anachronistic, archegoniates, charlatanisms, charlatanries, craftsmanship, hallucinators, handcraftsman, handcraftsmen, handicrafters, haruspication, noncharacters, parasynthetic, reattachments, thrasonically, transhumances, transthoracic, uncharismatic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 72 61 73 68 43 61 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01110010 01100001 01110011 01101000 00100000 01000011 01100001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T r a s h   C a n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0072 0061 0073 0068 0043 0061 006E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54846785742376780 |
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