"trashpaper" meaning in English

See trashpaper in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: trashpapers [plural]
Etymology: From trash + paper. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|trash|paper}} trash + paper Head templates: {{en-noun}} trashpaper (plural trashpapers)
  1. Paper that has been trashed, thrown away. Translations (Translations): jätepaperi (Finnish), Abfallpapier [neuter] (German), odrzucony papier [masculine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-trashpaper-en-noun-2yS-0hKq Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for trashpaper meaning in English (3.3kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "trash",
        "3": "paper"
      },
      "expansion": "trash + paper",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From trash + paper.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "trashpapers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "trashpaper (plural trashpapers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1959, Modern Maintenance Management, page 82",
          "text": "Compress 8 barrels of trashpaper into one ... E-Z BALER! Eliminate the dangerous, unsanitary, unsightly clutter of loose trashpaper with the new, improved E-Z BALER.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960, Hospitals: The Journal of the American Hospital Association, page 83",
          "text": "Trashpaper compressor (1 EL-8)",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1969, Product Engineering, page 21",
          "text": "It is estimated that Americans generate 5 lb. of trashpaper, bottles, cans—per person per day.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1984 March, Roy D. Pea, D. Midian Kurland, Logo Programming and the Development of Planning Skills (Technical Report No. 16), page 46",
          "text": "During the only visit to the art table, five component acts were dealt with in a cluster: the table was washed, the trashpaper and paintbrushes were picked up, and the two nearby plants were watered (Cluster 7).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, University of Hartford Studies in Literature, pages 41–42",
          "text": "Fittingly unable to read, Krook selfishly guards his collection of trashpaper, corresponding to the legal documents his “brother” keeps in Chancery.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain",
          "text": "Rusted watertanks in a yard strewn with trashpapers the wind had left.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Michal Kobialka, “The Dead Class: Selections from the Partytura (1974)”, in Further on, Nothing: Tadeusz Kantor’s Theatre, Minneapolis, Minn., London: University of Minnesota Press, page 270",
          "text": "Damn it all to hell, get rid of that trashpaper.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 March 28, John C. Wright, “Retrocausality at Marvel Comics”, in John C. Wright’s Journal",
          "text": "In our world, Marvel Comics grew from a ten cent a mag trashpaper product for kids into the blockbuster MCU movie empire because, Jack Kirby and Stan Lee and Steve Ditko and Gene Colan, Gil Kane, John Romita, Jim Steranko worked 60 hour work weeks for starvation wages for decades, and slowly won the love and loyalty of one generation after another … and the Marvel Stories stories became memorable, iconic and great because of the love and talent lavished on them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Paper that has been trashed, thrown away."
      ],
      "id": "en-trashpaper-en-noun-2yS-0hKq",
      "links": [
        [
          "Paper",
          "paper"
        ],
        [
          "trash",
          "trash"
        ],
        [
          "thrown away",
          "throw away"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "jätepaperi"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Abfallpapier"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "odrzucony papier"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "trashpaper"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "trash",
        "3": "paper"
      },
      "expansion": "trash + paper",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From trash + paper.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "trashpapers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "trashpaper (plural trashpapers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Translation table header lacks gloss"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1959, Modern Maintenance Management, page 82",
          "text": "Compress 8 barrels of trashpaper into one ... E-Z BALER! Eliminate the dangerous, unsanitary, unsightly clutter of loose trashpaper with the new, improved E-Z BALER.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960, Hospitals: The Journal of the American Hospital Association, page 83",
          "text": "Trashpaper compressor (1 EL-8)",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1969, Product Engineering, page 21",
          "text": "It is estimated that Americans generate 5 lb. of trashpaper, bottles, cans—per person per day.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1984 March, Roy D. Pea, D. Midian Kurland, Logo Programming and the Development of Planning Skills (Technical Report No. 16), page 46",
          "text": "During the only visit to the art table, five component acts were dealt with in a cluster: the table was washed, the trashpaper and paintbrushes were picked up, and the two nearby plants were watered (Cluster 7).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, University of Hartford Studies in Literature, pages 41–42",
          "text": "Fittingly unable to read, Krook selfishly guards his collection of trashpaper, corresponding to the legal documents his “brother” keeps in Chancery.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain",
          "text": "Rusted watertanks in a yard strewn with trashpapers the wind had left.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Michal Kobialka, “The Dead Class: Selections from the Partytura (1974)”, in Further on, Nothing: Tadeusz Kantor’s Theatre, Minneapolis, Minn., London: University of Minnesota Press, page 270",
          "text": "Damn it all to hell, get rid of that trashpaper.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 March 28, John C. Wright, “Retrocausality at Marvel Comics”, in John C. Wright’s Journal",
          "text": "In our world, Marvel Comics grew from a ten cent a mag trashpaper product for kids into the blockbuster MCU movie empire because, Jack Kirby and Stan Lee and Steve Ditko and Gene Colan, Gil Kane, John Romita, Jim Steranko worked 60 hour work weeks for starvation wages for decades, and slowly won the love and loyalty of one generation after another … and the Marvel Stories stories became memorable, iconic and great because of the love and talent lavished on them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Paper that has been trashed, thrown away."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Paper",
          "paper"
        ],
        [
          "trash",
          "trash"
        ],
        [
          "thrown away",
          "throw away"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "jätepaperi"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Abfallpapier"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "odrzucony papier"
    }
  ],
  "word": "trashpaper"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.