bin
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- enPR: bĭn, IPA(key): /bɪn/, /bin/
- (Canada, UK, General Australian) IPA(key): /bɪn/
Audio (US) (file) - Homophone: bun (NZ), been (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bɪn/
Etymology 1[edit]
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[edit]
bin (plural bins)
- 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.
- 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.
- (statistics) Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc
Derived terms[edit]
Synonyms[edit]
- (container): container, receptacle
- (container for waste): dustbin (British), rubbish bin (British, Australian), garbage can, trash can (both US)
Translations[edit]
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Verb[edit]
bin (third-person singular simple present bins, present participle binning, simple past and past participle binned)
- (chiefly Britain, informal) To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.
- (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, […]
- 2002, Christopher Harvie, Scotland: A Short History, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, p. 59
- (statistics) To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
- (transitive) To place into a bin for storage.
- to bin wine
Synonyms[edit]
- (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[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
From Arabic بِن (bin, “son”).
Noun[edit]
bin
Etymology 3[edit]
Contraction of being
Contraction[edit]
bin
- (text messaging) Contraction of being.
Etymology 4[edit]
Contraction of been
Verb[edit]
bin
- (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 […]
- 1669, Christopher Merrett, letter to Thomas Browne
Etymology 5[edit]
Noun[edit]
bin (uncountable)
Anagrams[edit]
Biak[edit]
Noun[edit]
bin
- 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.
- [1]: FAFYAR BEKUR KORBEN MA BIN YOMGA : "THE STORY ABOUT DRAGON AND THE YOMGA WOMAN"
Dalmatian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin bene. Compare Romanian bine, Italian bene, Spanish bien, French bien.
Adverb[edit]
bin
Noun[edit]
bin
Egyptian[edit]
Romanization[edit]
bin
French[edit]
Adverb[edit]
bin
- Alternative spelling of bien
German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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)[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
bin
References[edit]
- ^ Kluge, Friedrich (1989) , “bin”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological dictionary of the German language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN
Guinea-Bissau Creole[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Portuguese vir. Cognate with Kabuverdianu ben.
Verb[edit]
bin
- to come
Indonesian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Malay bin, from Classical Malay bin, from Arabic بِن (bin, “son”).
Noun[edit]
bin (plural, first-person possessive binku, second-person possessive binmu, third-person possessive binnya)
- son (of)
Japanese[edit]
Romanization[edit]
bin
Mandarin[edit]
Romanization[edit]
bin
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
- (Heligoland) to bind
Northern Kurdish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰudʰnás. Related to Ossetian бын (byn), Persian بن (bon).
Noun[edit]
bin ?
Preposition[edit]
bin
Papiamentu[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- bini (synonym)
Etymology[edit]
From Spanish venir and Kabuverdianu ben.
Verb[edit]
bin
- to come
Swahili[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Arabic بِن (bin, “son”).
Noun[edit]
bin (n class, plural bin)
Swedish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -iːn
Noun[edit]
bin
- indefinite plural of bi
Taivoan[edit]
Noun[edit]
bin
Tok Pisin[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Particle[edit]
bin
- 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.
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
See also[edit]
Tok Pisin tense markers:
- pinis (past perfect tense)
- bin (simple past tense)
- stap (progressive tense)
- bai/baimbai (future tense)
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
bin
Turkish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
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[edit]
bin (definite accusative bini, plural binler)
Declension[edit]
Inflection | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Etymology 2[edit]
Verb[edit]
bin
Welsh[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
Mutation[edit]
Welsh mutation | |||
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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[edit]
Mutated form of pin (“pine trees”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
bin
- Soft mutation of pin (“pine trees”).
Mutation[edit]
Welsh mutation | |||
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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. |
Zazaki[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Related to Northern Kurdish bin.
Noun[edit]
bin ?
Zoogocho Zapotec[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Spanish vena, from Latin vēna.
Noun[edit]
bin
References[edit]
- 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
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