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contraction
Contraction of being.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, contraction
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name
A surname from Chinese.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: container, receptacle
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noun
A container for rubbish or waste.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: dustbin, rubbish bin, garbage can, trash can, bin, garbage pail, trash bin, trashbin, trashcan, waste bin, wastebin
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noun
Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences, statistics
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noun
Any of the fixed-size chunks into which airspace is divided for the purposes of radar.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Jail or prison.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Multicultural-London-English, slang, uncommon
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Synonyms: big house, borstal, bridewell, brig, calaboose, can, chokey, choky, clink, correctional facility, correctional institution, crowbar hotel, detention centre, dungeon, gaol, glasshouse, graybar hotel, guardhouse, gulag, hock, hole, honor farm, hoosegow, house of detention, iron house, jail, jailhouse, joint, jug, juvenile hall, juvie, lockup, nigger university, nick, pen, penal colony, penitentiary, pokey, porridge, prison, prison camp, prison farm, prison hulk, prison ship, queer ken, remand center, roundhouse, slammer, slam, stalag, stir, stockade, tronk, up the river, workhouse, Alcatraz, Attica, Bastille, Dartmoor, Devil's Island, Folsom, Hanoi Hilton, Leavenworth, Lefortovo, Maze, Pelican Bay, San Quentin, Sing Sing, Tower
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noun
Ellipsis of loony bin (“lunatic asylum”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, slang
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noun
A digital file folder for organising media in a non-linear editing program.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: video post-production
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noun
son of; equivalent to Hebrew בן (ben).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Clipping of binary.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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verb
To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, informal
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Synonyms: chuck, chuck away, discard, dump, junk, 86, bin, can, cast aside, cast off, cast away, chuck out, dispose of, ditch, get rid of, jettison, pitch, scrap, shift, throw aside, throw away, throw out, toss, trash
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verb
To throw away, reject, give up.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, informal
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verb
To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences, statistics
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verb
To place into a bin for storage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Alternative form of been.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, alt-of, alternative, dialectal, obsolete
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noun
a container; usually has a lid
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: container
Narrower terms: ashcan, trash can, garbage can, wastebin, ash bin, ash-bin, ashbin, dustbin, trash barrel, trash bin, coalbin, coalhole, crib, flour bin, litterbin, litter basket, litter-basket, parts bin, recycling bin
noun
an identification number consisting of a two-part code assigned to banks and savings associations; the first part shows the location and the second identifies the bank itself
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: bank identification number, ABA transit number
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Broader terms: number, identification number
noun
the quantity contained in a bin
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: binful
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Broader terms: containerful
verb
store in bins
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: store, hive away, lay in, put in, salt away, stack away, stash away
History
Contraction of being.
Borrowed from Chinese 賓 /宾 (Bīn).
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 borrowing, West Frisian bin (both "wicker basket").
From Arabic بِن (bin, “son”).
Clipping of binary.
Pronunciation spelling of been.
Across languages
75 source translations are retained for this English entry.
