bin.
A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
Meaning & usage
A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
a corn bin
a wine bin
A container for rubbish or waste.
a rubbish bin
a wastepaper 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.
Ellipsis of loony bin (“lunatic asylum”).
A digital file folder for organising media in a non-linear editing program.
Where this word 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").
To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.
To throw away, reject, give up.
To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
To place into a bin for storage.
to bin wine
Where this word 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").
son of; equivalent to Hebrew בן (ben).
Where this word comes from
From Arabic بِن (bin, “son”).
Contraction of being.
Where this word comes from
Contraction of being.
Alternative form of been.
Where this word comes from
Pronunciation spelling of been.
Clipping of binary.
Where this word comes from
Clipping of binary.
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