bin

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See also: bìn, biñ, bīn, bǐn, biŋ, bin-, and Appendix:Variations of "bin"

English[edit]

A rubbish bin.

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From 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[edit]

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[edit]
Translations[edit]
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Verb[edit]

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
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Derived terms[edit]

Terms derived from bin

Etymology 2[edit]

From Arabic بِن‏ (bin, “son”).

Noun[edit]

bin

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

Etymology 3[edit]

Contraction of being

Contraction[edit]

bin

  1. (text messaging) Contraction of being

Etymology 4[edit]

Contraction of been

Verb[edit]

bin

  1. (obsolete, dialectal and text messaging) Alternative form of been
    • Sir Thomas Browne
      Many of the lupus piscis I have seen, and have bin informed by the king's fishmonger they are taken on our coast […]

Etymology 5[edit]

Short for binary.

Noun[edit]

bin (uncountable)

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

Anagrams[edit]

Biak[edit]

Noun[edit]

bin

  1. woman
    • [1]: 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[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Adverb[edit]

bin

  1. well

Noun[edit]

bin

  1. good

Egyptian[edit]

Romanization[edit]

bin

  1. Manuel de Codage transliteration of bjn.

French[edit]

Adverb[edit]

bin

  1. Alternative spelling of bien

German[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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:

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

bin

  1. First-person singular present of sein.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Kluge, Friedrich (1989), “bin”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological dictionary of the German language] (in German), 22nd edition, ISBN 3-11-006800-1

Indonesian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

bin

  1. son (of)

Japanese[edit]

Romanization[edit]

bin

  1. Rōmaji transcription of びん

Lojban[edit]

Rafsi[edit]

bin

  1. rafsi of jbini.

Mandarin[edit]

Romanization[edit]

bin

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

Usage notes[edit]

  • 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[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Verb[edit]

bin

  1. (Heligoland) to bind

Swahili[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

bin (needs class)

  1. son

Swedish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

bin

  1. indefinite plural of bi

Tok Pisin[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From English been.

Particle[edit]

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[edit]

Tok Pisin tense markers:

Etymology 2[edit]

From English bean.

Noun[edit]

bin

  1. bean, beans

Turkish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

bin (definite accusative bini, plural binler)

  1. (cardinal) thousand

Declension[edit]

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

Verb[edit]

bin

  1. second-person singular imperative of binmek
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