bin

noun

1. 1

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

   a corn bin

   a wine bin

   a coal bin

2. 2

   A container for rubbish or waste.

   a rubbish bin

   a wastepaper bin

   an ashes bin

   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. 3

   Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc

4. 4

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

5. 5

   slangJail or prison.

   Free up my G's locked in the bin Jail house comin' like subs one comes out then one goes in

6. 6

   A digital file folder for organising media in a non-linear editing program.

7. 7

   Variant of loony binslangEllipsis of loony bin (“lunatic asylum”).

   At the moment, and in "an emergency", you or I could be sent to the bin, 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".

   “She’s crazy,” I said. “She should be in a bin.”

verb

1. 1

   informalTo dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.

   He put the bank statement in the shoebox marked "Bank Statements" and binned the rest.

2. 2

   informalTo throw away, reject, give up.

   This splendid eloquence was promptly binned by the pope, […]

   The CC [Co-ordinating Centre] had long since binned the idea of catching the regular shuttle service, […]

   NR also wants more effort made to bin out-of-date 1970s technology, but only replacing it with equipment that meets customer needs, rather than high-tech kit just for the sake of it.

3. 3

   To convert continuous data into discrete groups.

4. 4

   To place into a bin for storage.

   to bin wine

noun

1. 1

   son of; equivalent to Hebrew בן (ben).

contraction

1. 1

   Variant of beingContraction of being.

verb

1. 1

   Variant of beenobsoleteAlternative form of been.

   Many of the lupus piscis I have seen, and have bin informed by the king's fishmonger they are taken on our coast […]

   ‘Mebbe you’re right, Jed. Mebbe you’re right,’ sighed Peter. ‘I don’t see how you missed your master’s license, though. ’Twould ha’ bin fitter for a master to own shares in his ship than a fust mate.’

noun

1. 1

   Variant of binaryClipping of binary.

Forms

plural

bins

past tense

binned

past participle

binned

present participle

binning

third person singular

bins