Definition of "bin"

bin¹

/bɪn/

noun
plural bins
1. A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
2. A container for rubbish or waste.
  Quotations
  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.
  2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848
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, slang, uncommon) Jail or prison.
  Quotations
  Free up my G's locked in the binJail house comin' like subsone comes out then one goes in
  2018 October 22, “Subs”, Slipz of Hoxton (lyrics)‎
6. (slang) Short for loony bin (“lunatic asylum”).
  Quotations
  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".
  1973, New Scientist, volume 58, number 852, page 822
verb
third-person singular simple present bins, present participle binning, simple past and past participle binned
1. (chiefly Britain, informal) To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.
  Quotations
  He put the bank statement in the shoebox marked "Bank Statements" and binned the rest.
  2008, Tom Holt, Falling Sideways, Orbit books,, page 28
2. (Britain, informal) To throw away, reject, give up.
  Quotations
  This splendid eloquence was promptly binned by the pope, […]
  2002, Christopher Harvie, Scotland: A Short History, Oxford University Press, page 59
  The CC [Co-ordinating Centre] had long since binned the idea of catching the regular shuttle service, […]
  2005, Ian Oliver, War and peace in the Balkans: the diplomacy of conflict in the former Yugoslavia, I.B. Tauris, page 238
  NR also wants more effort made to bin out-of-date 1970s technology, but only replacing it with equipment that meets customer needs, rather than high-tech kit just for the sake of it.
  2021 September 22, Howard Johnston, “NR: stop firefighting and plan for long-term progress”, in RAIL, number 940, page 11
3. (statistics) To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
4. (transitive) To place into a bin for storage.

bin²

/bɪn/

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

bin³

/bɪn/

contraction
1. (text messaging) Contraction of being.

bin⁴

/bɪn/

verb
1. (obsolete, dialectal and text messaging) Alternative form of been
  Quotations
  Many of the lupus piscis I have seen, and have bin informed by the king's fishmonger they are taken on our coast […]
  1669, Christopher Merrett, letter to Thomas Browne

bin⁵

/bɪn/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural bins
1. (computing) Clipping of binary.

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