Definition/Meaning of bin

• English - Noun: bin (plural bins) A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container . a corn bin a wine bin A container for rubbish or waste . an ashes bin a rubbish bin Any of the discrete interval s in a histogram , etc Any of the fixed-size chunks into which airspace is divided for the purposes of radar . (Multicultural London English, slang, uncommon) Jail or prison . 2018 October 22,…
• English - Verb: bin (third-person singular simple present bins, present participle binning, simple past and past participle binned) (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, page 28: He put the bank statement in the shoebox marked "Bank Statements" and binned the rest. (UK, informal) To throw away ,…
• English - Contraction: bin (Internet, abbreviation, contraction) Contraction of being .
• English - Anagrams: BNI ibn nib
• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. 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…