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  1. noun A container or enclosed space for storage.
  2. transitive verb To place or store in a bin.

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  • I also gingerly took the remaining three out to the dust-bin, although they were probably no hazard in the cool of that day. —  King, Laurie R - Russell-Holmes 08 - Locked Rooms
  • Chenforce would transit Kinawo in six days and then enter El-bin, a system with two habitable planets, one heavily industrialized and the other covered with grazing, herdsmen, and their beasts. —  Aeon One
  • The media bin is already populated with Ulead template graphics, backgrounds and other images when you start your project. —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
  • Keeping wheat in good condition in the bin is also important - whether the wheat is going to market or will be used for seed.
  • I feel very bless after reading this article it, let me know that the little thing mean so much it not the big thing that really matter in life. just a bin is a blessing to some and 30 room house is not enough to some. —  AroundTheCapitol.com
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  1. Middle English binne, from Old English, probably of Celtic origin.

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  1. from Middle English binne, bynne, byn, a repository for grain or bread, usually a manger, from Anglo-Saxon binn, a manger. Origin uncertain; perhaps, like D. benne, ben, = German benne, a basket-wagon, = Italian benna, a sleigh, cart, = French banne, benne, a basket, creel, pannier, basket-wagon, from Middle Latin benna, a basket, a hamper, apparently the same as L. benna, quoted as an old Gaulish name for a kind of vehicle; cf. Welsh ben, a cart, wagon.
  2. from bin, n.
  3. =English dial. and Scots ben (see ben), from Middle English binne, binnen, binnon, from Anglo-Saxon binnan, Old Northumbrian binna (= Old Saxon *binnan = OFries. binna = Dutch binnen = Middle High German G. binnen), within, from be-, by, + innan, within: see be- and in; cf. but.
 

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