Bin

Pronunciation

• enPR: bÄ­n, IPA: /bɪn/, /bin/
• Canada IPA: /bɪn/
• Homophones: bun NZ

Old English binne 'crib', from , from Gaulish benna 'four-wheeled cart; caisson' (compare Old Irish buinne, Welsh benn 'cart', Old Breton benn 'caisson').

Full definition of bin

Noun

1. A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
   a corn bin;   a wine bin;   a coal bin
2. A container for rubbish or waste.
   a rubbish bin;   a wastepaper bin;   an ashes bin
• 2013-08-10, Lexington, Keeping the mighty honest, British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.
3. (statistics) Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc.

Synonyms

• (container) container, receptacle
• (container for waste) dustbin, rubbish bin both British, garbage can, trash can both US

Verb

1. (chiefly British, informal) To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.
• 2008, Tom Holt, Falling Sideways, Orbit books, ISBN 1-84149-110-1, p. 28:He put the bank statement in the shoebox marked "Bank Statements" and binned the rest.
2. (British, informal) To throw away, reject, give up.
• 2002, Christopher Harvie, Scotland: A Short History, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-210054-8, p. 59:This splendid eloquence was promptly binned by the pope, ...
• 2005, Ian Oliver, War and peace in the Balkans: the diplomacy of conflict in the former Yugoslavia, I.B. Tauris, ISBN 1-850438-89-7, p. 238:The CC Centre had long since binned the idea of catching the regular shuttle service, ...
3. (statistics) To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
4. (transitive) To place into a bin for storage.to bin wine

Synonyms

• (dispose of in a bin) chuck, chuck away, chuck out, discard, ditch, dump, junk, scrap, throw away, throw out, toss, trash

Derived terms

• bin bag
• bin liner
• binman
• bread bin
• dustbin
• rubbish bin
• wheelie bin

From Arabic بن (ben, bin).

Noun

1. (in Arabic names) son of; equivalent to Hebrew בן (ben).

Contraction of being

Contraction

1. (text messaging) Contraction of being

Contraction of been

Verb

1. (dialectal and text messaging) Alternative form of been

Short for binary.

Noun

1. (computing, informal) Form of A short form

Anagrams

• BNI
• ibn
• nib