bin

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bin"

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bin

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Edo.

English

A rubbish bin.

Pronunciation

• enPR: bĭn, IPA^(key): /bɪn/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪn
• Homophone: been (General American, Received Pronunciation, New Zealand)

Etymology 1

From Middle English bynne, from Old English binn (“crib, manger”), from Proto-West Germanic *binnu, *binnā, from Gaulish benna (“four-wheeled cart; caisson”) (compare Old Irish buinne, Welsh ben (“cart”), Old Breton benn (“caisson”)). Cognate with West Frisian bin (“wicker basket”), Middle Dutch benne (“basket”), whence modern Dutch ben (“wicker basket”), German Benne (“wheelbarrow”).

Noun

bin (plural bins)

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

   Synonyms: container, receptacle

   a corn bin

   a wine bin

   a coal bin

2. A container for rubbish or waste.

   Synonyms: (British) dustbin, (British, Australian) rubbish bin, (US) garbage can, trash can; see also Thesaurus:waste bin

   a rubbish bin

   a wastepaper bin

   an ashes bin

   • 2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:

     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. (statistics) 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. (MLE, MTE, slang, uncommon) Jail or prison.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:jail

   • 2018 October 22, “Subs”, Slipz of Hoxton (lyrics)‎^[1]:

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

6. (slang) Short for loony bin (“lunatic asylum”).
   • 1973, New Scientist, volume 58, number 852, page 822:

     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".

7. (video post-production) A digital file folder for organising media in a non-linear editing program.

Derived terms

• ashbin
• ash-bin
• bargain bin
• bass bin
• bin-bag
• bin bag
• binbag
• bin chicken
• bin day
• bin diving
• bin fire
• binful
• bin juice
• binlike
• binliner
• bin liner
• binload
• bin lorry
• binman
• bin man
• binnable
• binner
• bin night
• bin off
• binology
• binsite
• bin stick
• bin store
• bin tipper
• binwidth
• blood bin
• book bin
• bozo bin
• bread bin
• cargo bin
• chilly bin
• clothing bin
• coalbin
• communal bin
• compost bin
• dump bin
• dumpbin
• dust bin
• dustbin
• feedbin
• garbage bin
• good as wheat in the bin
• headbin
• litter bin
• looney bin
• loony bin
• nappy bin
• overhead bin
• paper bin
• pastebin
• pedal bin
• rebin
• recycle bin
• recycling bin
• rubbish bin
• sandbin
• sensory bin
• sin bin
• sin-bin
• swing bin
• top bin
• trash bin
• wash bin
• washing bin
• wastebin
• waste bin
• wastepaper bin
• wheelie bin
• woodbin

 

Translations

container used for storage

• Bulgarian: хамбар (bg) m (hambar), бункер (bg) (bunker)
• Estonian: kast, konteiner (et)
• Finnish: säiliö (fi), astia (fi)
• French: boîte (fr) f, conteneur (fr) m
• Georgian: კიდობანი (ka) (ḳidobani)
• German: Tonne (de)
• Hungarian: tároló (hu)
• Korean: 함 (ko) (ham)
• Latin: cumera f
• Latvian: tīne f, lāde (lv) f
• Polish: pojemnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: tonel (pt)
• Russian: конте́йнер (ru) (kontéjner), корзи́на (ru) (korzína), бак (ru) (bak)
• Scottish Gaelic: biona m
• Spanish: bote (es) m
• Svan: კიბდენ (ḳibden)
• Swedish: tunna (sv) c
• Tibetan: སྒམ་སྒྲོམ (sgam sgrom)
• Ukrainian: засік m (zasik)

container for rubbish

• 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)
• 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

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Georgian: ^{(please verify)} სკივრი (sḳivri)

Verb

bin (third-person singular simple present bins, present participle binning, simple past and past participle binned)

1. (chiefly British, informal) To dispose 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, page 28:

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

2. (British, informal) To throw away, reject, give up.
   • 2002, Christopher Harvie, Scotland: A Short History, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 59:

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

   • 2005, Ian Oliver, War and peace in the Balkans: the diplomacy of conflict in the former Yugoslavia, I.B. Tauris, →ISBN, page 238:

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

   • 2021 September 22, Howard Johnston, “NR: stop firefighting and plan for long-term progress”, in RAIL, number 940, page 11:

     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. (statistics) To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
4. (transitive) To place into a bin for storage.

   to bin wine

Translations

informal: dispose of in a bin or as if in a bin

• Dutch: dumpen (nl), weggooien (nl)
• Finnish: heittää roskiin
• French: benner (fr)
• Italian: cestinare (it)
• Swedish: kasta (sv), slänga (sv)

to throw away, reject, give up

• Korean: 버리다 (ko) (beorida)

to convert continuous data into discrete groups

to place into a bin for storage

Etymology 2

From Arabic بِن (bin, “son”).

Noun

bin

1. (in Arabic names) son of; equivalent to Hebrew בן (ben).

Etymology 3

Contraction of being.

Contraction

bin

1. (text messaging) Contraction of being.

Etymology 4

Contraction of been.

Verb

bin

1. (obsolete, dialectal and text messaging) Alternative form of been
   • 1669, Christopher Merrett, letter to Thomas Browne:

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

Etymology 5

Clipping of binary.

Noun

bin (countable and uncountable, plural bins)

1. (computing) Clipping of binary.

Anagrams

• BNI, NBI, NIB, ibn, nib

Biak

Noun

bin

1. woman
   • [2]: 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.

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin bene. Compare Romanian bine, Italian bene, Spanish bien, French bien.

Adverb

bin

1. well

   Ju sai bin. ― I am well.

Noun

bin

1. good

Egyptian

Romanization

bin

1. Manuel de Codage transliteration of bjn.

French

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Adverb

bin

1. Alternative spelling of bien

German

Etymology

From Middle High German, from Old High German bim (“am”), from Proto-Germanic *biumi (first-person singular present active indicative of Proto-Germanic *beuną (“to be”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to be, become, appear”). Cognate with Dutch ben (“am”), Old English bēom (“am”). More at be.

German bin and Dutch ben have two sources:

• a form based on Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésmi (“am”) like English am, Old Norse em
• an initial b- that was added to the word under influence of verb forms based on Proto-Germanic *beuną (as in Old English beon)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɪn/

• Audio:

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Verb

bin

1. first-person singular present of sein

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese vir. Cognate with Kabuverdianu ben.

Verb

bin

1. to come

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay bin, from Classical Malay bin, from Arabic بِن (bin, “son”).

Noun

bin (first-person possessive binku, second-person possessive binmu, third-person possessive binnya)

1. son (of)

Japanese

Romanization

bin

1. Rōmaji transcription of びん

Krio

Etymology

From English been.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bìn/

Particle

bìn

1. Marks simple past tense

Malay

Etymology

From Classical Malay bin, from Arabic بِن (bin, “son”). Cognate to Indonesian bin.

Noun

bin

1. (name custom) son (of)

   Amir bin Aiman

   Amir bin Aiman

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic بِن (bin). One of very few words in which a stressed final short vowel is not indicated by doubling the following consonant (another example being lil). This is because there is no gemination before suffixes (compare e.g. binha (“her son”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɪn/

Noun

bin

1. construct form of iben

   Bin il-Bniedem ― Son of Man

Usage notes

• As a tendency, this form is used before the definite article and before names, while unchanged iben is used otherwise.

Mandarin

Romanization

bin

1. Nonstandard spelling of bīn.
2. Nonstandard spelling of bǐn.
3. Nonstandard spelling of bìn.

Usage notes

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian binda, which derives from Proto-Germanic *bindaną.

Verb

bin

1. (Heligoland) to bind

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *buHnáh (“base, foundation”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰudʰnás (“bottom, ground”), from a reshaping of Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰ(m̥)nés, genitive singular of *bʰudʰmḗn (“bottom”). Related to Ossetian бын (byn), Persian بن (bon).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɪn/

Noun

bin m (Arabic spelling بن)

1. foundation, bottom; base

   Synonym: verenk

   Antonyms: qehf, ser

Declension

Declension of bin

Definite masculine gender
Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	bin	bin
Construct	binê	binên
Oblique	binî	binan
Demonstrative oblique	wî binî	wan binan
Vocative	bino	binino
Indefinite masculine gender
Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	binek	binin
Construct	binekî	binine
Oblique	binekî	bininan

Preposition

bin (Arabic spelling بن)

1. below, under, beneath

   Antonym: ser

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “bin I”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 81
• Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “bin II”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 81

Papiamentu

Alternative forms

• bini (synonym)

Etymology

From Spanish venir and Kabuverdianu ben.

Verb

bin

1. to come

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German bin, Dutch ben.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɪn/

Verb

bin

1. first-person singular present indicative of sei

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بِن (bin, “son”).

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

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Noun

bin (n class, plural bin)

1. son of

   Khamis bin Abdallah ― Khamis the son of Abdallah

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːn

Noun

bin

1. indefinite plural of bi

Taivoan

Noun

bin

1. brother

Talysh

Verb

bin

1. present stem of vinde

Tok Pisin

Etymology 1

From English been.

Particle

bin

1. Marks the simple past tense.
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:2:

     Tasol graun i no bin i stap olsem yumi save lukim nau.

     →New International Version translation

See also

Tok Pisin tense and aspect markers:

• pinis (completive aspect)
• bin (past tense)
• stap (progressive aspect or durative aspect)
• save (habitual aspect)
• bai/baimbai (future tense)

Etymology 2

From English bean.

Noun

bin

1. bean, beans

Turkish

Turkish numbers ^(edit)

←  100	←  900	1,000
		100
Cardinal: bin     Ordinal: bininci     Distributive: biner

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbin/

• Audio:

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Etymology 1

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish بیك (biŋ, “thousand”), from Proto-Turkic *bïŋ (“thousand”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰉𐰃𐰭 (b¹iŋ /⁠bïŋ⁠/), 𐰋𐰃𐰭 (b²iŋ /⁠biŋ⁠/), Old Uyghur 𐽹𐽶𐽺𐽷 (mïŋ, “thousand”), Bashkir мең (meñ, “thousand”), Tatar мең (meñ, “thousand”) and Mongolian мянган (mjangan, “thousand”) a Turkic borrowing.

Noun

bin

1. thousand

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	bin
Definite accusative	bini
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	bin	binler
Definite accusative	bini	binleri
Dative	bine	binlere
Locative	binde	binlerde
Ablative	binden	binlerden
Genitive	binin	binlerin
Possessive forms Nominative Singular Plural 1st singular binim binlerim 2nd singular binin binlerin 3rd singular bini binleri 1st plural binimiz binlerimiz 2nd plural bininiz binleriniz 3rd plural binleri binleri Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular binimi binlerimi 2nd singular binini binlerini 3rd singular binini binlerini 1st plural binimizi binlerimizi 2nd plural bininizi binlerinizi 3rd plural binlerini binlerini Dative Singular Plural 1st singular binime binlerime 2nd singular binine binlerine 3rd singular binine binlerine 1st plural binimize binlerimize 2nd plural bininize binlerinize 3rd plural binlerine binlerine Locative Singular Plural 1st singular binimde binlerimde 2nd singular bininde binlerinde 3rd singular bininde binlerinde 1st plural binimizde binlerimizde 2nd plural bininizde binlerinizde 3rd plural binlerinde binlerinde Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular binimden binlerimden 2nd singular bininden binlerinden 3rd singular bininden binlerinden 1st plural binimizden binlerimizden 2nd plural bininizden binlerinizden 3rd plural binlerinden binlerinden Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular binimin binlerimin 2nd singular bininin binlerinin 3rd singular bininin binlerinin 1st plural binimizin binlerimizin 2nd plural bininizin binlerinizin 3rd plural binlerinin binlerinin

Derived terms

• binbir (“very many”, literally “a thousand and one”)
• binlerce (“thousands of”)

Etymology 2

Verb

bin

1. second-person singular imperative of binmek

Welsh

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English bin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɪn/
• Rhymes: -ɪn

Noun

bin m (plural biniau or bins)

1. bin, trashcan

Mutation

Mutated forms of bin

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
bin	fin	min	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Etymology 2

Mutated form of pin (“pine trees”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biːn/

Noun

bin

1. Soft mutation of pin (“pine trees”).

Mutation

Mutated forms of pin

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
pin	bin	mhin	phin

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Yola

Etymology

Originated 1250–1300 from Middle English beynge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biːn/
• Homophones: bane, been

Verb

bin

1. being
   • 1927, “PAUDEEN FOUGHLAAN'S WEDDEEN”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 133, line 3:

     Shu bin vrem Vorth, an hay vrem Bargee,

     She being from Forth and he from Bargy;

References

• Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 133

Zoogocho Zapotec

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vena, from Latin vēna.

Noun

bin

1. vein

References

• 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)‎^[3] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 16