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( international standards ) ISO 639-2 &ISO 639-3 language code forEdo . A rubbish bin. FromMiddle English bynne , fromOld English binn ( “ crib, manger ” ) , fromLate Latin benna or aCeltic language, possiblyProto-Brythonic *benn ( “ cart, carriage ” ) (whenceMiddle Welsh benn ,Old Breton benn ( “ caisson ” ) , modernWelsh ben ), fromProto-Celtic *bend(n)ā (whenceGaulish benna ).[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] CompareGerman Benne ( “ wheelbarrow ” ) andMiddle Dutch benne ( “ basket ” ) , whence modernDutch ben and as a borrowing,West Frisian bin (both "wicker basket").
bin (plural bins )
A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as astorage container .Synonyms: container ,receptacle a cornbin
a winebin
a coalbin
A container forrubbish orwaste .Synonyms: ( British ) dustbin ,( British, Australian ) rubbish bin ,( US ) garbage can ,trash can ;see also Thesaurus:waste bin a rubbishbin
a wastepaperbin
an ashesbin
2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest ”, inThe Economist , volume408 , number8848 :British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through theirbins . Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.
( statistics ) Any of thediscrete intervals in ahistogram , etcAny of the fixed-size chunks into whichairspace is divided for the purposes ofradar . ( MLE , MTE , slang , uncommon ) Jail orprison .Synonyms: see Thesaurus:jail 2018 October 22, “Subs”, Slipz of Hoxton (lyrics)[3] :Free up my G's locked in thebin Jail house comin' like subs one comes out then one goes in
( slang ) Ellipsis ofloony bin ( “ lunatic asylum ” ) .1973 ,New Scientist , volume58 , number852 , page822 :At the moment, and in "an emergency", you or I could be sent to thebin , willy-nilly, on the say-so of a single doctor (who may never have seen us before, and need have no particular experience of mental illness), so long as the application is supported by one of our relatives, or by a "social worker".
1988 , Margaret Atwood,Cat's Eye :“She’s crazy,” I said. “She should be in abin .”
( video post-production ) A digital file folder for organisingmedia in anon-linear editing program .container used for storage
container for rubbish
Arabic:مَزْبَلَة (ar) ( mazbalah ) ( informal ) Basque:zakarrontzi Bulgarian:кофа за смет f ( kofa za smet ) Chinese:Mandarin:垃圾桶 (zh) ( lājītǒng ) Czech:popelnice (cs) f Dutch:vuilnisbak (nl) ,afvalbak (nl) Esperanto:rubujo Estonian:prügikast (et) ,prügikonteiner ,prükkar Finnish:roskasäiliö ,jäteastia (fi) ,roskis (fi) ( colloquial ) French:poubelle (fr) f German:Mülltonne (de) Greek:κάδος απορριμμάτων ( kádos aporrimmáton ) ,κάδος (el) ( kádos ) Hindi:कचरा पात्र m ( kacrā pātra ) ,कूड़ेदान m ( kūṛedān ) Hungarian:szemetes (hu) ,szemétláda (hu) ,kuka (hu) Italian:bidone (it) m Khmer:please add this translation if you can Korean:휴지통 (ko) ( hyujitong ) ,쓰레기통 (ko) ( sseuregitong ) Lao:please add this translation if you can Latvian:atkritumu tvertne f Nepali:डस्टबिन ( ḍasṭbin ) Polish:kosz (pl) m ( na śmieci ) Portuguese:latão (pt) Russian:мусорный (ru) ( musornyj ) бак (ru) ( bak ) Scottish Gaelic:biona m ,biona-sgudail m ,biona-stùir m Spanish:bote (de basura ) m ,caneca (es) f ( Colombia ) Swedish:soptunna (sv) c Thai:please add this translation if you can Tibetan:please add this translation if you can Turkish:çöp konteyneri Vietnamese:please add this translation if you can
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bin (third-person singular simple present bins ,present participle binning ,simple past and past participle binned )
( chiefly British , informal ) Todispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.Synonyms: chuck ,chuck away ,discard ,dump ;see also Thesaurus:junk 2008 ,Tom Holt ,Falling Sideways , Orbit books,,→ISBN , page28 :He put the bank statement in the shoebox marked "Bank Statements" andbinned the rest.
( British , informal ) Tothrow away ,reject ,give up .2002 , Christopher Harvie,Scotland: A Short History , Oxford University Press,→ISBN ,page59 :This splendid eloquence was promptlybinned by the pope,[ …]
2005 , Ian Oliver,War and peace in the Balkans: the diplomacy of conflict in the former Yugoslavia , I.B. Tauris,→ISBN ,page238 :The CC [Co-ordinating Centre] had long sincebinned the idea of catching the regular shuttle service,[ …]
2021 September 22, Howard Johnston, “NR: stop firefighting and plan for long-term progress”, inRAIL , number940 , page11 :NR also wants more effort made tobin out-of-date 1970s technology, but only replacing it with equipment that meets customer needs, rather than high-tech kit just for the sake of it.
( statistics ) To convertcontinuous data intodiscrete groups.( transitive ) To place into a bin for storage.tobin wine
informal: dispose of in a bin or as if in a bin
to throw away, reject, give up
to convert continuous data into discrete groups
to place into a bin for storage
FromArabic بِن ( bin ,“ son ” ) .
bin
( in Arabic names ) son of; equivalent to Hebrewבן ( ben ) .Contraction ofbeing .
bin
( text messaging ) Contraction ofbeing .Pronunciation spelling ofbeen .
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( obsolete , dialectal and text messaging ) Alternative form ofbeen .1669 , Christopher Merrett,letter to Thomas Browne :Many of thelupus piscis I have seen, and havebin informed by the king's fishmonger they are taken on our coast[ …]
Clipping ofbinary .
bin (countable anduncountable ,plural bins )
( computing ) Clipping ofbinary . ^ Barnhart, Robert andSteinmetz, Sol , editors (1988 ), “bin”, inThe Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology [1] ,Bronxville, N.Y. :The H. W. Wilson Co. ,→ISBN ,→OCLC ,page94 . ^ Holthausen, Ferdinand (1963 ) [1934 ], “binn(e) f.”, inAltenglisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Old English Etymological Dictionary ] (in German), 2nd edition,Heidelberg :Carl Winter Universitätsverlag ,→OCLC , page24 . ^ Onions, C[harles] T. , Friedrichsen, G. W. S., and Burchfield, R[obert] W. , editors (1966 ), “bin”, inThe Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology [2] ,Oxford :Clarendon Press ,→ISBN ,→OCLC ,page95 , column 2; reprinted1994 .bin
woman [4] : 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. FromLatin bene . CompareRomanian bine ,Italian bene ,Spanish bien ,French bien .
bin
well Ju sai bin. ―I am well.bin
good bin
Manuel de Codage transliteration ofbjn .bin
alternative spelling ofbien (in the adverb sense "very" or in the interjection sense "well, ...")FromMiddle High German bin , fromOld High German bim ( “ am ” ) , fromProto-Germanic *biumi (first-person singular present active indicative ofProto-Germanic *beuną ( “ to be ” ) ), fromProto-Indo-European *bʰew- ( “ to be, become, appear ” ) . Cognate withDutch ben ( “ am ” ) ,Old English bēom ( “ am ” ) . More atbe .
Germanbin and Dutchben have two sources:
bin
first-person singular present ofsein Guinea-Bissau Creole [ edit ] FromPortuguese vir . Cognate withKabuverdianu ben .
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tocome FromEnglish been .
bin (tense-aspect marker )
denotes theanterior tense denotes thepast perfect tense for active verbs denotes thesimple past tense for stative verbs bin
Past tense of thecopula was been FromMalay bin ,fromClassical Malay bin , fromArabic بِن ( bin ,“ son ” ) .
bin (plural bin -bin )
son (of)bin
Rōmaji transcription ofびん FromEnglish been .[ 1]
bìn
Marks simple past tense bîn
tolive in aplace other than one's ownbirthplace FromClassical Malay bin , fromArabic بِن ( bin ,“ son ” ) . Cognate to Indonesianbin .
bin
( name custom ) son (of)Amirbin Aiman Amirbin Aiman FromArabic بِن ( bin ) . One of very few words in which a stressed final short vowel is not indicated by doubling the following consonant (another example beinglil ). This is because there is no gemination before suffixes (compare e.g.binha ( “ her son ” ) ).
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construct form ofiben Bin il-Bniedem ―Son of Man As a tendency, this form is used before the definite article and before names, while unchangediben is used otherwise. bin
nonstandard spelling ofbīn nonstandard spelling ofbǐn nonstandard spelling ofbìn Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the criticaltonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.IPA (key ) : ( before 13th CE ) /ˈbin/ bin
first-person singular present indicative ofsīn / wësen Presumably fromEnglish been ( “ past participle of be ” ) .
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( auxiliary ) Used to express the past tense of a verb. 2025 April 23, Orla Guerin, “More dan 150 pipo injure as earthquakes shake buildings for Turkey Istanbul”, inBBC News Pidgin [5] :Turkish officialsbin report two oda smaller earthquakes, also dem record aftershocks. Turkish officials reported two other smaller earthquakes, also they recorded aftershocks. FromOld Frisian binda , which derives fromProto-Germanic *bindaną .
bin
( Heligoland ) tobind FromProto-Iranian *buHnáh ( “ base, foundation ” ) , fromProto-Indo-Iranian *bʰudʰnás ( “ bottom, ground ” ) , from a reshaping ofProto-Indo-European *bʰudʰ(m̥)nés , genitive singular of*bʰudʰmḗn ( “ bottom ” ) . Related toOssetian бын ( byn ) ,Persian بن ( bon ) .
bin m (Arabic spelling بن )
foundation ,bottom ;base Synonym: verenk Antonyms: qehf ,ser bin (Arabic spelling بن )
below ,under ,beneath Antonym: ser Chyet, Michael L. (2020 ), “bin I ”, inFerhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press,page81 Chyet, Michael L. (2020 ), “bin II ”, inFerhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press,page81 FromSpanish venir andKabuverdianu ben .
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tocome Pennsylvania German [ edit ] CompareGerman bin ,Dutch ben .
bin
first-person singular present indicative ofsei Borrowed fromArabic بِن ( bin ,“ son ” ) .[ 1]
bin classIX (plural bin classX )
son of Khamis bin Abdallah ―Khamis the son of Abdallah ^ Baldi, Sergio (30 November 2020),Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa (Handbuch der Orientalistik; Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten;145 ), Leiden • Boston: Brill,→ISBN ,page39 Nr. 312 bin
indefinite plural ofbi bin
brother bin
present stem ofvinde FromEnglish been .
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Marks thesimple past tense. 1989 ,Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin , Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea,Jenesis 1:2 :Tok Pisin tense and aspect markers:
FromEnglish bean .
bin
bean ,beans Inherited fromOttoman Turkish بیڭ ( biŋ ,“ thousand ” ) , fromProto-Turkic *bïŋ ( “ thousand ” ) . Cognate withOld Turkic 𐰉𐰃𐰭 ( b¹iŋ /bïŋ/ ) ,𐰋𐰃𐰭 ( b²iŋ /biŋ/ ) ,Old Uyghur 𐽹𐽶𐽺𐽷 ( mïŋ ,“ thousand ” ) ,Bashkir мең ( meñ ,“ thousand ” ) ,Tatar мең ( meñ ,“ thousand ” ) andMongolian мянган ( mjangan ,“ thousand ” ) a Turkic borrowing.
bin
thousand binbir ( “ very many ” , literally“ a thousand and one ” ) binlerce ( “ thousands of ” ) bin
second-person singular imperative ofbinmek Borrowed fromEnglish bin .
bin m (plural biniau or bins )
bin ,trashcan Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Mutated form ofpin ( “ pine trees ” ) .
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soft mutation ofpin ( “ pine trees ” ) Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
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first person singular indicative ofwêze bin (intransitive )
togo Bin meyaj tolo'.Shewent there to work. toleave Originated 1250–1300 fromMiddle English beynge .
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being 1927 , “PAUDEEN FOUGHLAAN'S WEDDEEN”, inTHE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD , page133 , line 3:Shubin vrem Vorth, an hay vrem Bargee, Shebeing from Forth and he from Bargy; Kathleen A. Browne (1927 ), “THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD.”, inJournal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of lreland (Sixth Series)[6] , volume17 , number 2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page133 Borrowed fromSpanish vena , fromLatin vēna .
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vein 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 )[7] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.:Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C. , page16