Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A container or enclosed space for storage.
- v. To place or store in a bin.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A box or inclosed place used as a repository for any commodity: as, a corn-bin; a coal-bin.
- n. One of the open subdivisions of a cellar for the reception of wine-bottles.
- n. Also spelled binn.
- To put into or store in a bin: as, to bin liquor.
- Within; inside.
- Of place, within; inside of; in.
- Of time, within; during.
- A shortened form of been, past participle, and obsolete infinitive and present indicative plural, of be. Bin is the ordinary pronunciation in the United States of the past participle been.
- n. A heap or pile.
Wiktionary
- n. A container used for storage.
- n. A container for rubbish or waste.
- v. chiefly UK, informal To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.
- v. UK, informal To throw away, reject, give up.
- v. statistics To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
- n. son of; equivalent to Hebrew בן (ben).
- text messaging Contraction of being
- v. Alternative form of been.
- n. computing, informal A short form of binary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A box, frame, crib, or inclosed place, used as a receptacle for any commodity.
- v. To put into a bin.
- obsolete An old form of be and been.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the quantity contained in a bin
- n. an identification number consisting of a two-part code assigned to banks and savings associations; the first part shows the location and the second identifies the bank itself
- v. store in bins
- n. a container; usually has a lid
Etymologies
- Short for binary. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English binne, from Old English, probably of Celtic origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Plist. bin and Plist. txt, select \ "Plist. bin\" and open it; Then, power offon once, the depop operation is done.”
“If you do, then critical Cygwin system directories like and bin could easily be corrupted by other (non-Cygwin) applications or packages that use or \bin.”
“(grep "bin / perl" / usr / bin*) I find a lot of perl programs I can try to read which are written by experienced programmers.”
“They added just quotes from what they called the bin Laden speech.”
“Looks like it hit the bargain bin already, and that was the first time I even saw the book. laughing in alaska”
“I mostly shift-delete files, so my recycle bin is always empty. ssj4Gogeta”
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“Delete the other default quick launch shortcuts (internet explorer, show desktop, etc), so just your recycle bin is there. achali phoenix”
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“That or run launchy to open the bin; once the recycle bin is open you can do all of the above at once, including drag and drop to a taskbar icon or the window itself.”
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“There was a huge range of prices vibrators though, everything from bargain - bin $10 ones all the way up to $300 chiq ones.”
“Some consumers have always opted to delay buying (paperback releases are the obvious example, but think also of second run movies, as well as cable and rentals, as well as bargain bin LPs).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bin’.
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museum words
words from work
provenance, accession, deaccession, conservation, preparator, registrar, curator, jargon, Oz clip, bell plate, stretcher, ornate and 115 more...
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Containers
Stuff that holds other stuff.
cardboard box, jar, filing cabinet, safe deposit box, cupboard, wardrobe, jewel case, briefcase, locker, canopic jar, chest of drawers, paper sack and 208 more...
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MANY A WORD!
This is just a list, right, that I'm gonna, like, fill with words, that, like, are every word that I can, like, think of with, ahhmm, my brain.
and, able, art, ass, algebra, amp, ankle, booze, bong, aura, bling, bright and 134 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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3 Letter Words
A list of English words that are three letters long.
ace, act, ade, ado, add, ads, age, ago, ail, air, aim, all and 397 more...
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Your Mother
Joyess
cramp, crumble, cringe, slope, fling, prone, freckle, plank, frock, tramp, slump, crotch rot and 36 more...
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ROT13 Pairs
Nabbed from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROT-13#Letter_games_and_net_culture: words that become other existing words (or failing that, acronyms) when a Caesar shift of 13 places is applied to them.
aha, nun, ant, nag, balk, onyx, bar, one, barf, ones, be, or and 64 more...
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Two years
Okay, I admit it. I made a list of words my daughter knew when she was two years old.
bat, baba, a, abalone, about, acorn, adrienne, after, again, airplane, alison, all and 694 more...
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Next!
salvific, redemptive, salvic, roil, changeling, barrow, burro, sow, swath, haymow, shock, sheaves and 190 more...
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The Motherland! (God Bless the Queen)
Words that remind me of England, which I miss very much.
snog, nappy, wanker, telly, knickers, crumpet, pants, bum, loo, bollocks, stroppy, whinge and 108 more...
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The List Of Words That Rewrote The Hi...
Ah, yeah, this is a list of words that I think sound pretty funny... or dumb, either way, I like 'em so, yeah.
flabergasted, smash, wang, wordie, drum, rumplestiltskin, resistance, watt, hindu, universal serial bus, bearing, nematode and 138 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1493 more...
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wot's all this, then?
Britishisms and Anglophilia - Mencken has a great, if dated, list of comparisons between the British and American words here.
aluminium, gobsmacked, queue, lift, bin, rubbish, navvy, ironmonger, treacle, parcel, constable, monkey-nut and 45 more...
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british colloquialisms
slang dict
alright!, arty-farty, beer o'clock, big time, bin, bits and bobs, blighty, blimey, bob's your uncle, bolivian marching..., bolshie, catch you later! and 49 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for bin.

arby British for trash can Jun 23, 2007