receptacle
贮藏器,贮藏室,容器,凵者
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Definitions
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- : a container, device, etc., that receives or holds something: a receptacle for trash.
- : Botany. the modified or expanded portion of the stem or axis that bears the organs of a single flower or the florets of a flower head.
- : Electricity. a contact device installed at an outlet for the connection of a portable lamp, appliance, or other electric device by means of a plug and flexible cord.
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Examples
Which causes all of the caterpillars to fall out of the hedge and into your receptacles.
It looks at how people share information, and how sometimes we rely on others as being the information receptacle.
Inventions like the Lapee female urinal, a pink cubicle in which the user squats over an oval-shaped receptacle to relieve herself, can help gather this pure pee.
The hotel didn’t have any trash receptacles for the lobby and had to borrow some from a neighboring property that has been closed since the start of the pandemic.
Also, some form of trash receptacle would be welcomed, as we were often stumbling around our bag of trash and sticking it beneath the dinette table at night to avoid attracting animals.
The average reader, he declares, is but an unwitting receptacle for media narratives.
Thefacebook was nothing but a platform—a receptacle for the contributions of its users.
As a result, health reform has become a bottomless receptacle for a host of free-floating fears harbored by many Americans.
She was cast into a bare and miserable dungeon, in that subterranean receptacle of woe, where there was not even a bed.
In this shallow receptacle lay an oval miniature which the man took out and held under the strong light of the gas jet.
Strange that he should be thus happy in a receptacle of so much pain and sorrow; yet he was light-hearted as the son of a grandee.