Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An apparatus that compresses refuse into relatively small packs for handy disposal.
Wiktionary
- n. A machine that reduces the bulk of waste by compaction.
Examples
“According to Kevin Derrick, the city's sanitation director, a used compactor, which is comparable to a bulldozer, would cost roughly an additional $300,000.”
“Compare this to the tension of the garbage compactor in Star Wars, where you had a Jaws-like underwater menace and the slow creep of certain death in those moving walls.”
“Inspired by the famous garbage compactor scene from Episode IV: A New Hope, these limited-edition hand-painted bookends flip that classic movie moment inside-out.”
“Anybody can follow his online plans to build the compactor that turns plastic bags into bricks.”
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“- Use plastic trash compactor bags for dirty clothes and other stuff.”
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“Mr. Wright also said Mr. Stover told a subordinate to put thousands of security-related documents into a trash compactor at the mine in January 2011.”
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“Police pulled a newborn baby boy with his umbilical cord still attached out of a trash compactor in a Fort Greene housing project Sunday morning, according to a law-enforcement official familiar with the case.”
“Months earlier, two black sanitation workers had been crushed to death when a compactor mechanism in a truck malfunctioned.”
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“If your apartment is near the elevator or compactor room, be prepared for extra noise.”
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“The Dianoga trash creature is also made available for the first time so you can play the scene in the trash compactor where Luke, Han and Chewbacca help Princess Leia escape from the detention center in the original Star Wars IV.”
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