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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A container or enclosed space for storage.
  2. v. To place or store in a bin.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A box or inclosed place used as a repository for any commodity: as, a corn-bin; a coal-bin.
  2. n. One of the open subdivisions of a cellar for the reception of wine-bottles.
  3. n. Also spelled binn.
  4. To put into or store in a bin: as, to bin liquor.
  5. Within; inside.
  6. Of place, within; inside of; in.
  7. Of time, within; during.
  8. 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.
  9. n. A heap or pile.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A container used for storage.
  2. n. A container for rubbish or waste.
  3. v. chiefly UK, informal To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.
  4. v. UK, informal To throw away, reject, give up.
  5. v. statistics To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
  6. n. son of; equivalent to Hebrew בן (ben).
  7. text messaging Contraction of being
  8. v. Alternative form of been.
  9. n. computing, informal A short form of binary

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A box, frame, crib, or inclosed place, used as a receptacle for any commodity.
  2. v. To put into a bin.
  3. obsolete An old form of be and been.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the quantity contained in a bin
  2. 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
  3. v. store in bins
  4. n. a container; usually has a lid

Etymologies

  1. Short for binary. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English binne, from Old English, probably of Celtic origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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