What is another word for ashtrays?

Pronunciation: [ˈaʃtɹe͡ɪz] (IPA)

Ashtrays are a common household item, typically used for depositing cigarette butts. However, there are various names for this product based on its shape and design. For instance, a shallow dish used for collecting ashes and cigarette butts is called an ash dish. Similarly, ash receivers or ash containers refer to tall and cylindrical structures with a narrow opening at the top. A cigar ashtray, as the name suggests, is specifically designed for cigar smokers. A tabletop ashtray is another variety that can be fixed on a table or a desk. Lastly, a smokeless ashtray is an advanced version that has a built-in filter to reduce the odors and smoke.

What are the hypernyms for Ashtrays?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Ashtrays

Lieutenant Temple, however, thought he had a good idea, and with an apparently unintentional, though violent, movement pushed against the light camp-table, and sent ashtrays, bottles, glasses, and cards flying on the ground.
"The Coming Conquest of England"
August Niemann
Chairs and ashtrays had been moved away from the walls.
"2 B R 0 2 B"
Kurt Vonnegut
He had been in Kurt Fawzi's office a few times, always with his father, and he remembered it as a dim, quiet place of genteel conviviality and rambling conversations, with deep, comfortable chairs and many ashtrays.
"Graveyard of Dreams"
Henry Beam Piper

Famous quotes with Ashtrays

  • My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.
    Casey Affleck
  • The room was not a room to elevate the soul. Louis XIV, to pick a name at random, would not have liked it, would have found it not sunny enough, and insufficiently full of mirrors. He would have desired someone to pick up the socks, put the records away, and maybe burn the place down. Michelangelo would have been distressed by its proportions, which were neither lofty nor shaped by any noticeable inner harmony or symmetry, other than that all parts of the room were pretty much equally full of old coffee mugs, shoes and brimming ashtrays, most of which were now sharing their tasks with each other. The walls were painted in almost precisely that shade of green which Raffaello Sanzio would have bitten off his own right hand at the wrist rather than use, and Hercules, on seeing the room, would probably have returned half an hour later armed with a navigable river. It was, in short, a dump, and was likely to remain so for as long as it remained in the custody of Mr Svlad, or 'Dirk', Gently, né Cjelli.
    Douglas Adams
  • We don't piss in your ashtrays, So please don't throw cigarettes in our urinals.
    Kurt Vonnegut

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