A waste bin standing for deletion, usually recoverable.
Also known as: Delete icon
A waste bin marks deletion. The metaphor carries a promise that is often true and sometimes not: things put in a bin can usually be taken out again, and interfaces vary in whether they honour that.
Removes the selected item, in most systems to a holding area from which it can be restored rather than destroying it outright.
Contexts: Software
Introduced on the Macintosh desktop in 1984 and copied almost universally afterwards.
Contexts: Software
A tapering container drawn as a trapezium with vertical ribs, a narrow lid across its top and a small handle above that.
The tidyman asks a reader to dispose of packaging tidily; the interface bin deletes a file. Both are bins, and neither has anything to do with the other.