bin

See also: bīn, bǐn, bìn, and biñ

English

A rubbish bin.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US)

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• 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.

   a rubbish bin;   a wastepaper bin;   an ashes bin

   • 2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, 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

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
• German: Tonne (de)

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

container for rubbish

• Basque: zakarrontzi
• Bulgarian: кофа за смет f (kofa za smet)
• Czech: popelnice (cs) f
• Dutch: vuilnisbak (nl), afvalbak (nl)
• Estonian: prügikast, prügikonteiner, prükkar
• 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 m, biona-sgudail m, biona-stùir m
• Spanish: bote (es) m de basura (es) f
• Swedish: soptunna (sv) c

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• Georgian: სკივრი (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
• 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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Egyptian

Romanization

bin

1. Manuel de Codage transliteration of bjn.

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French

Adverb

bin

1. (Quebec, Arcadie) Alternative spelling of bien.

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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^(key): /bɪn/

• audio

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Verb

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. Rōmaji reading of 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^(key): /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

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 (his/her/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

bin

1. Second-person imperative of binmek.