bin
A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
Noun 4 meanings
A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
A container for rubbish or waste.
“a rubbish bin”
Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc
Any of the fixed-size chunks into which airspace is divided for the purposes of radar.
Verb 4 meanings
To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.
To throw away, reject, give up.
To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
To place into a bin for storage.
Etymology
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).
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BIN at a glance
BIN has 3 letters and scores 5 points in Scrabble (B 3 + I 1 + N 1) and 7 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #4,831 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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