bin

• enPR: bĭn, IPA^(key): /bɪn/, /bin/
• (Canada, UK, General Australian) IPA^(key): /bɪn/

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• Homophone: bun (NZ), been (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɪn/

From Middle English binne, from Old English binne (“crib, manger”), from West Germanic, from Gaulish benna (“four-wheeled cart; caisson”) (compare Old Irish buinne, Welsh benn (“cart”), Old Breton benn (“caisson”)).

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

   • 2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:

     British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.

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

• binwidth

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

bin (third-person singular simple present bins, present participle binning, simple past and past participle binned)

1. (chiefly Britain, 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, p. 28:

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

2. (Britain, informal) To throw away, reject, give up.
   • 2002, Christopher Harvie, Scotland: A Short History, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, 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, 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

• (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

From Arabic بِن‎ (bin, “son”).

bin

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

Contraction of being

bin

1. (text messaging) Contraction of being.

Contraction of been

bin

1. (obsolete, dialectal and text messaging) Alternative form of been
   • Sir 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 […]

Clipping of binary.

bin (uncountable)

1. (computing, informal) Clipping of binary.

• BNI, NBI, NIB, ibn, nib

bin

1. woman
   • : FAFYAR BEKUR KORBEN MA BIN YOMGA : "THE STORY ABOUT DRAGON AND THE YOMGA WOMAN"

     Korben ine fyair bin berande ido bebaraprapen ro yaf narewara bo bebur mumra si. : This dragon usually watched the women who usually went landward and roasted (food) along the gardens and went home seaward.

From Latin bene. Compare Romanian bine, Italian bene, Spanish bien, French bien.

bin

1. well

bin

1. good

bin

1. Manuel de Codage transliteration of bjn.

bin

1. Alternative spelling of bien

From Middle High German, from Old High German bim (“am”), from Proto-Germanic *beuną (“to be”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to be, become, appear”). Cognate with Dutch ben (“am”), Old English bēom (“am”). More at be.

German bin and Dutch ben have two sources:

• a form based on Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésmi (“am”) like English am, Old Norse em
• an initial b- that was added to the word under influence of verb forms based on Proto-Germanic *beuną (as in Old English beon)[1]

• IPA^(key): /bɪn/

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bin

1. First-person singular present of sein.

From Portuguese vir. Cognates with Kabuverdianu ben.

bin

1. to come

Borrowed from Arabic بِن‎ (bin, “son”).

bin (plural bin-bin, first-person possessive binku, second-person possessive binmu, third-person possessive binnya)

1. son (of)

bin

1. Rōmaji transcription of びん

Related to Ossetian бын (byn).

bin

1. bottom

bin

1. under

bin

1. Nonstandard spelling of bīn.
2. Nonstandard spelling of bǐn.
3. Nonstandard spelling of bìn.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

From Old Frisian binda, which derives from Proto-Germanic *bindaną.

bin

1. (Heligoland) to bind

• bini (synonym)

From Spanish venir and Kabuverdianu ben.

bin

1. to come

Borrowed from Arabic بِن‎ (bin, “son”).

bin (n class, plural bin)

1. son of

   Khamis bin Abdallah ― Khamis the son of Abdallah

• Rhymes: -iːn

bin

1. indefinite plural of bi

From English been.

bin

1. Marks the simple past tense.
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 1:2:

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Tok Pisin tense markers:

• pinis (past perfect tense)
• bin (simple past tense)
• stap (progressive tense)
• bai/baimbai (future tense)

From English bean.

bin

1. bean, beans

• IPA^(key): /ˈbin/

From Ottoman Turkish بیك‎ (biŋ, “thousand”), from Proto-Turkic *bïŋ (“thousand”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰉𐰃𐰭‎ (bïŋ), 𐰋𐰃𐰭‎ (biŋ), Old Uyghur mynk (mïŋ, “thousand”), Bashkir мең (meñ, “thousand”) and Mongolian мянган (mjangan, “thousand”) a Turkic borrowing.

bin (definite accusative bini, plural binler)

1. thousand

bin

1. second-person singular imperative of binmek

Borrowed from English bin.

• IPA^(key): /bɪn/

bin m (plural biniau)

1. bin, trashcan

Mutated form of pin (“pine trees”).

• IPA^(key): /biːn/

bin

1. Soft mutation of pin (“pine trees”).

Related to Kurdish bin.

bin ?

1. bottom

Borrowed from Spanish vena, from Latin vēna.

bin

1. vein

• Long C., Rebecca; Cruz M., Sofronio (2000) Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 38)‎ (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 16