bin

noun

/bɪn/

Etymology

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").

derived from *bendā✻
derived from *benn✻ — “cart, carriage”
derived from benna
inherited from binn — “crib, manger”
inherited from bynne

Definitions

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
Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc
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1. Any of the fixed-size chunks into which airspace is divided for the purposes of radar.
2. 5
  Jail or prison.
  - Free up my G's locked in the bin Jail house comin' like subs one comes out then one goes in
3. 6
  Ellipsis of loony bin (“lunatic asylum”).
  - “She’s crazy,” I said. “She should be in a bin.”
4. A digital file folder for organising media in a non-linear editing program.
5. 8
  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.
6. 9
  To throw away, reject, give up.
  - This splendid eloquence was promptly binned by the pope, […]
  - The CC [Co-ordinating Centre] had long since binned the idea of catching the regular shuttle service, […]
  - NR also wants more effort made to bin out-of-date 1970s technology, but only replacing it with equipment that meets customer needs, rather than high-tech kit just for the sake of it.
7. To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
8. 11
  To place into a bin for storage.
  - to bin wine
9. son of
  son of; equivalent to Hebrew בן (ben).
10. Contraction of being.
11. 14
  Alternative form of been.
  - Many of the lupus piscis I have seen, and have bin informed by the king's fishmonger they are taken on our coast […]
12. Clipping of binary.
13. A surname from Chinese.

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Derived

ashbin, ash-bin, bargain bin, bass bin, bin-bag, bin bag, binbag, bin chicken, bin day, bin diving, bin fire, binful, Bingate, bin juice, binlike, binliner, bin liner, binload, bin lorry, binman, bin man, binnable, binner, bin night, bin off, binology, binsite, bin stick, bin store, bin tipper, binwidth, blood bin, book bin, bozo bin, bread bin, cargo bin, chilly bin, clothing bin, coalbin, communal bin · +36 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bin. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA