bin

See also bīn, bǐn, bìn, and biñ

English

A rubbish bin.

Pronunciation

• enPR: bĭn, IPA: /bɪn/, X-SAMPA: /bIn/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɪn
• Homophone: been
• Homophone: bun (NZ)

Etymology 1

Old English binne 'crib', from West Germanic, from Gaulish benna 'four-wheeled cart; caisson' (compare Old Irish buinne, Welsh benn 'cart', Old Breton benn 'caisson').

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.

Synonyms

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

Translations

container used for storage

• Bulgarian: хамбар (bg) (hambar) m, бункер (bg) (bunker)
• Estonian: kast (et), konteiner (et)
• Finnish: säiliö (fi), astia (fi)
• French: boîte (fr) f
• German: Tonne (de)

• Portuguese: tonel (pt)
• Russian: контейнер (ru) (kontejner), корзина (ru) (korzina), бак (ru) (bak)
• Scottish Gaelic: biona (gd) m
• Spanish: bote (es) m
• Swedish: tunna (sv) c

container for rubbish

• Basque: zakarrontzi (eu)
• Bulgarian: кофа за смет (bg) (kofa za smet) f
• Czech: popelnice (cs) f
• Dutch: vuilnisbak (nl), afvalbak (nl)
• Estonian: prügikast (et), prügikonteiner (et), prükkar (et)
• Finnish: roskasäiliö, jäteastia, roskis (colloquial)
• French: poubelle (fr) f
• German: Mülltonne (de)

• Hungarian: szemetes (hu), szemétláda (hu), kuka (hu)
• Italian: bidone (it) m
• Portuguese: latão (pt)
• Russian: мусорный (ru) (musornyj) бак (ru) (bak)
• Scottish Gaelic: biona (gd) m, biona-sgudail (gd) m, biona-stùir (gd) m
• Spanish: bote (es) m de basura (es) f
• Swedish: soptunna (sv) c

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• Georgian: სკივრი (ka) (skivri)

Verb

bin (third-person singular simple present bins, present participle binning, simple past and past participle binned)

1. (chiefly UK, 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. (UK, 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

informal: dispose of in a bin or as if in a bin

• Dutch: dumpen (nl), weggooien (nl)
• Finnish: heittää roskiin

• Spanish: caneca (es)
• Swedish: kasta (sv), slänga (sv)

Derived terms

• bin bag
• bin liner
• binman
• bread bin
• dustbin
• rubbish bin
• wheelie bin

Etymology 2

From Arabic بن (ben, 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

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Dalmatian

Etymology

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

Adverb

bin

1. well

Noun

bin

1. good

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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)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /bɪn/

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Verb form

bin

1. First-person singular present of sein.

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Arabic

Noun

bin

1. son (of)

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Japanese

Romanization

bin

1. See びん

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Lojban

Rafsi

bin

1. rafsi of jbini.

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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.

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Swahili

Etymology

From Arabic بن (ben, bin, son).

Noun

bin

1. son

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Swedish

Noun

bin

1. indefinite plural of bi

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Tok Pisin

Etymology 1

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

English bean

Noun

bin

1. bean, beans

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Turkish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈbɪn/

Noun

bin (definite accusative bini, plural binler)

1. (cardinal) thousand

Declension

declension of bin

	singular (tekil)	plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın)	bin	binler
definite accusative (belirtme)	bini	binleri
dative (yönelme)	bine	binlere
locative (bulunma)	binde	binlerde
ablative (çıkma)	binden	binlerden
genitive (tamlayan)	binin	binlerin

possessive forms of bin

nominative	singular	plural
benim (my)	binim	binlerim
senin (your)	binin	binlerin
onun (his/her/its)	bini	binleri
bizim (our)	binimiz	binlerimiz
sizin (your)	bininiz	binleriniz
onların (their)	binleri	binleri
accusative	singular	plural
benim (my)	binimi	binlerimi
senin (your)	binini	binlerini
onun (his/her/its)	binini	binlerini
bizim (our)	binimizi	binlerimizi
sizin (your)	bininizi	binlerinizi
onların (their)	binlerini	binlerini
dative	singular	plural
benim (my)	binime	binlerime
senin (your)	binine	binlerine
onun (his/her/its)	binine	binlerine
bizim (our)	binimize	binlerimize
sizin (your)	bininize	binlerinize
onların (their)	binlerine	binlerine
locative	singular	plural
benim (my)	binimde	binlerimde
senin (your)	bininde	binlerinde
onun (his/her/its)	bininde	binlerinde
bizim (our)	binimizde	binlerimizde
sizin (your)	bininizde	binlerinizde
onların (their)	binlerinde	binlerinde
ablative	singular	plural
benim (my)	binimden	binlerimden
senin (your)	bininden	binlerinden
onun (his/her/its)	bininden	binlerinden
bizim (our)	binimizden	binlerimizden
sizin (your)	bininizden	binlerinizden
onların (their)	binlerinden	binlerinden
genitive	singular	plural
benim (my)	binimin	binlerimin
senin (your)	bininin	binlerinin
onun (his/her/its)	bininin	binlerinin
bizim (our)	binimizin	binlerimizin
sizin (your)	bininizin	binlerinizin
onların (their)	binlerinin	binlerinin

Verb

bin

1. Second-person imperative of binmek.