bin
A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
Contraction
- Contraction of being.
Origin
Contraction of being.
Noun Entry 2
- A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
- a corn bin
- a wine bin
- a coal bin
Synonyms: container receptacle
- A container for rubbish or waste.
- a rubbish bin
- a wastepaper bin
- an ashes bin
Synonyms: dustbin rubbish bin garbage can trash can bin garbage pail trash bin trashbin trashcan waste bin wastebin
- 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 - 2018 October 22, “Subs”, Slipz of Hoxton (lyrics):
Synonyms: big house borstal bridewell brig calaboose can chokey choky clink correctional facility correctional institution crowbar hotel detention centre dungeon gaol glasshouse graybar hotel guardhouse gulag hock hole honor farm hoosegow house of detention
- Ellipsis of loony bin (“lunatic asylum”).
- 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...
- “She’s crazy,” I said. “She should be in a bin.” - 1988, Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye:
- A digital file folder for organising media in a non-linear editing program.
Origin
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").
Forms
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 bin liner binliner binload bin lorry binman bin man binnable binner bin night
Noun Entry 3
- son of; equivalent to Hebrew בן (ben).
Origin
From Arabic بِن (bin, “son”).
Noun computing, engineering
- Clipping of binary.
Origin
Clipping of binary.
Forms
Verb UK, informal
- 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. - 2008, Tom Holt, Falling Sideways, Orbit books,, →ISBN, page 28:
Synonyms: chuck chuck away discard dump junk 86 bin can cast aside cast off cast away chuck out dispose of ditch get rid of jettison pitch scrap shift throw aside throw away throw out toss trash
- To throw away, reject, give up.
- This splendid eloquence was promptly binned by the pope, […] - 2002, Christopher Harvie, Scotland: A Short History, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 59:
- The CC [Co-ordinating Centre] had long since binned the idea of catching the regular shuttle service, […] - 2005, Ian Oliver, War and peace in the Balkans: the diplomacy of conflict in the former Yugoslavia, I.B....
- 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. - 2021 September 22, Howard...
- To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
- To place into a bin for storage.
- to bin wine
Forms
Verb Internet, alt of
- 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 […] - 1669, Christopher Merrett, letter to Thomas Browne:
- ‘Mebbe you’re right, Jed. Mebbe you’re right,’ sighed Peter. ‘I don’t see how you missed your master’s license, though. ’Twould ha’ bin fitter for a master to own shares in his ship than a fust mate.’ - 1930, Captain...
Origin
Pronunciation spelling of been.