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bin

Pronunciation: /ˈbɪn/

The English word “bin” has 11 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
  2. A container for rubbish or waste.
  3. Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc
  4. Any of the fixed-size chunks into which airspace is divided for the purposes of radar.
  5. Jail or prison.
  6. A digital file folder for organising media in a non-linear editing program.
  7. son of; equivalent to Hebrew בן (ben).

verb

  1. To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.
  2. To throw away, reject, give up.
  3. To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
  4. To place into a bin for storage.

Etymology

From Middle English bynne, from Old English binn (“crib, manger”), from Late Latin benna or a Celtic language, possibly Proto-Brythonic *benn (“cart, carriage”) (whence Middle Welsh benn, Old Breton benn (“caisson”), modern Welsh ben), from Proto-Celtic *bend(n)ā (whence Gaulish benna). Compare German Benne (“wheelbarrow”) and Middle Dutch benne (“basket”), whence modern Dutch ben and as a…

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