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Bin

//bɪn// contraction, name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Contraction
  1. 1
    Contraction of being. Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, contraction
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Chinese.
Noun
  1. 1
    A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.

    "a corn bin"

  2. 2
    son of; equivalent to Hebrew בן (ben).
  3. 3
    Clipping of binary. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    a container; usually has a lid wordnet
  5. 5
    A container for rubbish or waste.

    "a rubbish bin"

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  1. 6
    an identification number consisting of a two-part code assigned to banks and savings associations; the first part shows the location and the second identifies the bank itself wordnet
  2. 7
    Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc
  3. 8
    the quantity contained in a bin wordnet
  4. 9
    Any of the fixed-size chunks into which airspace is divided for the purposes of radar.
  5. 10
    Jail or prison. Multicultural-London-English, slang, uncommon

    "Free up my G's locked in the bin Jail house comin' like subs one comes out then one goes in"

  6. 11
    Ellipsis of loony bin (“lunatic asylum”). abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, slang

    "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 worker"."

  7. 12
    A digital file folder for organising media in a non-linear editing program.
Verb
  1. 1
    To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin. British, informal

    "He put the bank statement in the shoebox marked "Bank Statements" and binned the rest."

  2. 2
    Alternative form of been. Internet, alt-of, alternative, dialectal, obsolete

    "Many of the lupus piscis I have seen, and have bin informed by the king's fishmonger they are taken on our coast […]"

  3. 3
    store in bins wordnet
  4. 4
    To throw away, reject, give up. British, informal

    "This splendid eloquence was promptly binned by the pope, […]"

  5. 5
    To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
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  1. 6
    To place into a bin for storage. transitive

    "to bin wine"

Etymology

Etymology 1

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").

Etymology 2

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").

Etymology 3

From Arabic بِن (bin, “son”).

Etymology 4

Contraction of being.

Etymology 5

Pronunciation spelling of been.

Etymology 6

Clipping of binary.

Etymology 7

Borrowed from Chinese 賓 /宾 (Bīn).

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