bin

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Pronunciation

• enPR: bĭn, IPA: /bɪn/, /bin/
• (Canada, British, Aus) IPA: /bɪn/
• homophones en (NZ), been (America, RP) IPA: /bɪn/

Noun

bin (plural bins)

1. A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.

   a corn bin; a wine bin; a coal bin

   • 1852-1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House

     Though a hard-grained man, close, dry, and silent, he can enjoy old wine with the best. He has a priceless bin of port in some artful cellar under the Fields, which is one of his many secrets.

2. A container for rubbish or waste.

   a rubbish bin; a wastepaper bin; an ashes bin

3. (statistics) Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc

Synonyms

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

Translations

• French: boîte, conteneur
• German: Tonne
• Portuguese: tonel
• Russian: конте́йнер
• Spanish: bote

Translations

• French: poubelle
• German: Mülltonne
• Italian: bidone
• Portuguese: latão
• Russian: мусорный
• Spanish: bote de basura, caneca (Colombia)

Verb

bin (bins, present participle binning; past and past participle binned)

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 [Co-ordinating 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
• See also Thesaurus:junk

Translations

• French: benner
• Italian: cestinare

Noun

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

Verb

1. (obsolete, dialectal and text messaging) Alternative form of been
   • 1669, Christopher Merrett, letter to Thomas Browne

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

Noun

bin (uncountable)

1. (computing, informal) Clipping of binary#English|binary.

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