English

A rubbish bin.

Noun

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

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.

Synonyms

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

Translations

Verb

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 1-84149-110-1, 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 0-19-210054-8, 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 1-850438-89-7, 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

Synonyms

• (dispose of in a bin): chuck, chuck away, chuck out, discard, ditch, dump, junk, scrap, throw away, throw out, toss, trash
• See also Wikisaurus:junk

Translations

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Arabic بِن ‎(bin).

Noun

bin

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

Etymology 3

Contraction of being

Contraction

bin

1. (text messaging) Contraction of being

Etymology 4

Contraction of been

Verb

bin

1. (dialectal and text messaging) Alternative form of been

Etymology 5

Short for binary.

Noun

bin ‎(uncountable)

1. (computing, informal) A short form of binary

Anagrams

• BNI
• ibn
• nib

Biak

Noun

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.

Dalmatian

Etymology

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

Adverb

bin

1. well

Noun

bin

1. good

Egyptian

Romanization

bin

1. Manuel de Codage transliteration of bjn.

French

Adverb

bin

1. Alternative spelling of bien

German

Etymology

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]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɪn/

Verb

bin

1. First-person singular present of sein.

References

1. ↑ “bin” in: Friedrich Kluge, “Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache” , 22. Auflage, 1989, bearbeitet von Elmar Seebold, ISBN 3-11-006800-1

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Noun

bin

1. son (of)

Japanese

Romanization

bin

1. rōmaji reading of びん

Lojban

Rafsi

bin

1. rafsi of jbini.

Mandarin

Romanization

bin

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

Usage notes

• 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.

North Frisian

Etymology

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

Verb

bin

1. (Heligoland) to bind

Swahili

Etymology

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

Noun

bin (needs class)

1. son

Swedish

Noun

bin

1. indefinite plural of bi

Tok Pisin

Etymology 1

From English been.

Particle

bin

1. Marks the simple past tense.
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Genesis 1:2 (translation here):

     Tasol graun i no bin i stap olsem yumi save lukim nau.

See also

Tok Pisin tense markers:

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

Etymology 2

From English bean.

Noun

bin

1. bean, beans

Turkish

Etymology

From Old Turkic biŋ, from Proto-Turkic *bɨŋ ‎(“thousand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɪn/

Noun

bin ‎(definite accusative bini, plural binler)

1. (cardinal) thousand

Declension

Verb

bin

1. second-person singular imperative of binmek