bin

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

English

A rubbish bin.

Pronunciation

• enPR: bĭn, IPA^(key): /bɪn/, /bin/
• (Canada, UK, General Australian) IPA^(key): /bɪn/

• Audio (US)

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• Homophone: bun (NZ), been (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɪn/

Etymology 1

From Middle English binne, from Old English binne (“crib, manger”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], 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

   • 1852-1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House

     Though a hard-grained man, close, dry, and silent, he can enjoy old wine with the best. He has a priceless bin of port in some artful cellar under the Fields, which is one of his many secrets.

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

Derived terms

• binwidth

Synonyms

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

Translations

container used for storage

• Bulgarian: хамбар (bg) m (hambar), бункер (bg) (bunker)
• Estonian: kast, konteiner (et)
• Finnish: säiliö (fi), astia (fi)
• French: boîte (fr) f, conteneur (fr) m
• Georgian: კიდობანი (ka) (ḳidobani)
• German: Tonne (de)
• Latin: cumera f
• Latvian: tīne f, lāde (lv) f
• Portuguese: tonel (pt)

• Russian: конте́йнер (ru) (kontéjner), корзи́на (ru) (korzína), бак (ru) (bak)
• Scottish Gaelic: biona m
• Spanish: bote (es) m
• Svan: კიბდენ (ḳibden)
• Swedish: tunna (sv) c
• Tibetan: སྒམ་སྒྲོམ (sgam sgrom)
• Ukrainian: засік m (zasik)

container for rubbish

• Basque: zakarrontzi
• Bulgarian: кофа за смет f (kofa za smet)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 垃圾桶 (zh) (lājītǒng)

• Czech: popelnice (cs) f
• Dutch: vuilnisbak (nl), afvalbak (nl)
• Esperanto: rubujo
• Estonian: prügikast, prügikonteiner, prükkar
• Finnish: roskasäiliö, jäteastia (fi), roskis (fi) (colloquial)
• French: poubelle (fr) f
• German: Mülltonne (de)
• Greek: κάδος απορριμμάτων (kádos aporrimmáton), κάδος (el) (kádos)
• Hungarian: szemetes (hu), szemétláda (hu), kuka (hu)
• Italian: bidone (it) m

• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: atkritumu tvertne f
• Nepali: डस्टबिन (ḍasṭbin)
• Portuguese: latão (pt)
• Russian: мусорный (ru) (musornyj) бак (ru) (bak)
• Scottish Gaelic: biona m, biona-sgudail m, biona-stùir m
• Spanish: bote (es) m de basura (es) f, caneca f (Colombia)
• Swedish: soptunna (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Georgian: ^{(please verify)} სკივრი (sḳivri)

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, 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, 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, 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 Thesaurus:junk

Translations

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

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

• Italian: cestinare (it)
• Swedish: kasta (sv), slänga (sv)

to throw away, reject, give up

to convert continuous data into discrete groups

to place into a bin for storage

Derived terms

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

 

Etymology 2

From Arabic بِن‎ (bin, “son”).

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. (obsolete, dialectal and text messaging) Alternative form of been
   • 1669, Christopher Merrett, letter to 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

Clipping of binary.

Noun

bin (uncountable)

1. (computing, informal) Clipping of binary.

Anagrams

• BNI, NBI, NIB, ibn, nib

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Biak

Noun

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.

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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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Egyptian

Romanization

bin

1. Manuel de Codage transliteration of bjn.

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French

Adverb

bin

1. Alternative spelling of bien

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German

Etymology

From Middle High German, from Old High German bim (“am”), from Proto-Germanic *biumi (first-person singular present active indicative of 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^(key): /bɪn/

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Verb

bin

1. first-person singular present of sein

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Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese vir. Cognate with Kabuverdianu ben.

Verb

bin

1. to come

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay bin, from Classical Malay bin, from Arabic بِن‎ (bin, “son”).

Noun

bin (plural, first-person possessive binku, second-person possessive binmu, third-person possessive binnya)

1. son (of)

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Japanese

Romanization

bin

1. Rōmaji transcription of びん

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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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North Frisian

Etymology

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

Verb

bin

1. (Heligoland) to bind

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Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰudʰnás. Related to Ossetian бын (byn), Persian بن‎ (bon).

Noun

bin ?

1. bottom

Preposition

bin

1. under

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Papiamentu

Alternative forms

• bini (synonym)

Etymology

From Spanish venir and Kabuverdianu ben.

Verb

bin

1. to come

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Swahili

Etymology

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

Noun

bin (n class, plural bin)

1. son of

   Khamis bin Abdallah ― Khamis the son of Abdallah

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːn

Noun

bin

1. indefinite plural of bi

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Taivoan

Noun

bin

1. brother

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Tok Pisin

Etymology 1

From English been.

Particle

bin

1. Marks the simple past tense.
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 1:2:

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

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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

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Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbin/

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish بیك‎ (biŋ, “thousand”), from Proto-Turkic *bïŋ (“thousand”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰉𐰃𐰭‎ (bïŋ), 𐰋𐰃𐰭‎ (biŋ), Old Uyghur mynk (mïŋ, “thousand”), Bashkir мең (meñ, “thousand”) and Mongolian мянган (mjangan, “thousand”) a Turkic borrowing.

Noun

bin (definite accusative bini, plural binler)

1. thousand

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	bin
Definite accusative	bini
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	bin	binler
Definite accusative	bini	binleri
Dative	bine	binlere
Locative	binde	binlerde
Ablative	binden	binlerden
Genitive	binin	binlerin
Possessive forms Singular Plural 1st singular binim binlerim 2nd singular binin binlerin 3rd singular bini binleri 1st plural binimiz binlerimiz 2nd plural bininiz binleriniz 3rd plural binleri binleri

Etymology 2

Verb

bin

1. second-person singular imperative of binmek

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Welsh

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English bin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɪn/

Noun

bin m (plural biniau or bins)

1. bin, trashcan

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
bin	fin	min	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Etymology 2

Mutated form of pin (“pine trees”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biːn/

Noun

bin

1. Soft mutation of pin (“pine trees”).

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
pin	bin	mhin	phin
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Zazaki

Etymology

Related to Northern Kurdish bin.

Noun

bin ?

1. bottom

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Zoogocho Zapotec

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vena, from Latin vēna.

Noun

bin

1. vein

References

• Long C., Rebecca; Cruz M., Sofronio (2000) Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 38)‎^[2] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 16