bin

noun

A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.

A container for rubbish or waste.

(MLE, MTE, slang, uncommon) Jail or prison.

(video post-production) A digital file folder for organising media in a non-linear editing program.

Any of the fixed-size chunks into which airspace is divided for the purposes of radar.

(statistics) Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc

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

A surname from Chinese.

(computing) Clipping of binary. [A state in which only two values are possible, in which something must have one value or the other.]

(slang) Ellipsis of loony bin (“lunatic asylum”). [(slang, derogatory) A lunatic asylum.]

verb

(chiefly British, informal) To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.

(British, informal) To throw away, reject, give up.

(transitive) To place into a bin for storage.

(statistics) To convert continuous data into discrete groups.

(obsolete, dialectal and text messaging) Alternative form of been. [(Southern US or African-American Vernacular) remote past form of be.]

Synonyms for bin

dumpv craten drawern storagen cupboardn

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