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Definition of 'bin'English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ).
Noun
( en-noun)
A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
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A container for rubbish or waste.
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* {{quote-magazine|date=2013-08-10|volume=408|issue=8848|magazine=(The Economist)|author=Lexington
|title= Keeping the mighty honest
|passage=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.}}
(statistics) Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc.
Synonyms
* (container) container, receptacle
* (container for waste) dustbin, rubbish bin (both British), garbage can, trash can (both US)
Verb
( binn)
To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.
* 2008 , , Falling Sideways , Orbit books, ISBN 1-84149-110-1, p. 28:
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To throw away, reject, give up.
* 2002 , Christopher Harvie, Scotland: A Short History , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-210054-8, p. 59 :
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* 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 :
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(label) To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
(label) To place into a bin for storage.
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Synonyms
* (dispose of in a bin) chuck, chuck away, chuck out, discard, ditch, dump, junk, scrap, throw away, throw out, toss, trash
* See also
Derived terms
{{der3|bin bag
|bin liner
|binman
|bread bin
|dustbin
|rubbish bin
|wheelie bin}}
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .
Noun
(head)
(lb) son of; equivalent to Hebrew .
Etymology 3
Contraction of being
Etymology 4
Contraction of been
Verb
(head)
Etymology 5
Short for (binary).
Noun
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Similar to 'bin'been, ban, ben, bun, bean, bion, bein, bn, bain, boon, boun, bawn, bunn
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