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bin¹
- /ˈbɪn/
- [ˈbɪn]
Sounds like been (General American) · Rhymes with -ɪn
Where it comes from
From Middle English bynne, from Old English binn (“crib, manger”), from Late Latin benna or a Celtic language, possibly Proto-Brythonic *benn (“cart, carriage”) (whence Middle Welsh benn, Old Breton benn (“caisson”), modern Welsh ben), from Proto-Celtic *bend(n)ā (whence Gaulish benna). Compare German Benne (“wheelbarrow”) and Middle Dutch benne (“basket”), whence modern Dutch ben and as a borrowing, West Frisian bin (both "wicker basket").
noun bins
- A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container. a corn bin
- A container for rubbish or waste. a rubbish bin
- Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc
- Any of the fixed-size chunks into which airspace is divided for the purposes of radar.
- Jail or prison. Free up my G's locked in the bin Jail house comin' like subs one comes out then one goes in
- Ellipsis of loony bin (“lunatic asylum”).loony bin At the moment, and in "an emergency", you or I could be sent to the bin, willy-nilly, on the say-so of a single doctor (who may never have seen us before, and need have no particular experience of mental illness), so long as the application is supported by one of our relatives, or by a "social worke
- A digital file folder for organising media in a non-linear editing program.
verb bins · binning · binned
- To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin. He put the bank statement in the shoebox marked "Bank Statements" and binned the rest.
- To throw away, reject, give up. This splendid eloquence was promptly binned by the pope, […]
- To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
- To place into a bin for storage. to bin wine
bin²
- /ˈbɪn/
- [ˈbɪn]
Sounds like been (General American) · Rhymes with -ɪn
Where it comes from
From Arabic بِن (bin, “son”).
noun
- son of; equivalent to Hebrew בן (ben).
bin³
- /ˈbɪn/
- [ˈbɪn]
Sounds like been (General American) · Rhymes with -ɪn
Where it comes from
Contraction of being.
contraction
- Contraction of being.being
bin⁴
- /ˈbɪn/
- [ˈbɪn]
Sounds like been (General American) · Rhymes with -ɪn
Where it comes from
Pronunciation spelling of been.
verb
- Alternative form of been.been Many of the lupus piscis I have seen, and have bin informed by the king's fishmonger they are taken on our coast […]
bin⁵
- /ˈbɪn/
- [ˈbɪn]
Sounds like been (General American) · Rhymes with -ɪn
Where it comes from
Clipping of binary.
noun bins
- Clipping of binary.binary
Bin⁶
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Chinese 賓 /宾 (Bīn).
proper noun Bins
- A surname from Chinese.
