bin

Clipping of English Bini.

bin

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Edo terms

• enPR: bĭn, IPA^(key): /bɪn/

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

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”).

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) Ellipsis of 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".

   • 1988, Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye:

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

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

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

From Arabic بِن (bin, “son”).

bin

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

Contraction of being.

bin

1. (text messaging) Contraction of being.

Contraction of been.

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 […]

Clipping of binary.

bin (countable and uncountable, plural bins)

1. (computing) Clipping of binary.

• BNI, NBI, NIB, ibn, nib

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.

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

bin

1. well

   Ju sai bin. ― I am well.

bin

1. good

bin

1. Manuel de Codage transliteration of bjn.

• IPA^(key): /bɛ̃/

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bin

1. alternative spelling of bien (in the adverb sense "very" or in the interjection sense "well, ...")

From Middle High German bin, 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)^[1]

• IPA^(key): /bɪn/

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bin

1. first-person singular present of sein

From Portuguese vir. Cognate with Kabuverdianu ben.

bin

1. to come

From English been.

• IPA^(key): /bɪn/

bin (tense-aspect marker)

1. denotes the anterior tense
2. denotes the past perfect tense for active verbs
3. denotes the simple past tense for stative verbs

bin

1. Past tense of the coupla
2. was
3. been

• Virginia Mixson Geraty, Gulluh fuh oonuh: Gullah for You (1997)
•  Seminole Indian Scouts Cemetery Association. Afro-Seminole Creole Wikitongues Language Class 

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

bin (plural bin-bin)

1. son (of)

bin

1. Rōmaji transcription of びん

From English been.^[1]

• (particle) IPA^(key): /bìn/
• (verb) IPA^(key): /bîn/

bìn

1. Marks simple past tense

bîn

1. to live in a place other than one's own birthplace

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

bin

1. (name custom) son (of)

   Amir bin Aiman

   Amir bin Aiman

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”)).

• IPA^(key): /bɪn/

bin

1. construct form of iben

   Bin il-Bniedem ― Son of Man

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

bin

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

• 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.

Presumably from English been (“past participle of be”).

bin

1. (auxiliary) Used to express the past tense of a verb.
   • 2025 April 23, Orla Guerin, “More dan 150 pipo injure as earthquakes shake buildings for Turkey Istanbul”, in BBC News Pidgin‎^[3]:

     Turkish officials bin report two oda smaller earthquakes, also dem record aftershocks.

     Turkish officials reported two other smaller earthquakes, also they recorded aftershocks.

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

bin

1. (Heligoland) to bind

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).

• IPA^(key): /bɪn/

bin m (Arabic spelling بن)

1. foundation, bottom; base

   Synonym: verenk

   Antonyms: qehf, ser

bin (Arabic spelling بن)

1. below, under, beneath

   Antonym: ser

• 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

• bini (synonym)

From Spanish venir and Kabuverdianu ben.

bin

1. to come

Compare German bin, Dutch ben.

• IPA^(key): /bɪn/

bin

1. first-person singular present indicative of sei

Borrowed from Arabic بِن (bin, “son”).^[1]

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bin class IX (plural bin class X)

1. son of

   Khamis bin Abdallah ― Khamis the son of Abdallah

• Rhymes: -iːn

bin

1. indefinite plural of bi

bin

1. brother

bin

1. present stem of vinde

From English been.

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

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)

From English bean.

bin

1. bean, beans

Turkish numbers ^(edit)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈbin/

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Inherited from Ottoman Turkish بیڭ (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.

bin

1. thousand

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

bin

1. second-person singular imperative of binmek

Borrowed from English bin.

• IPA^(key): /bɪn/
• Rhymes: -ɪn

bin m (plural biniau or bins)

1. bin, trashcan

Mutated form of pin (“pine trees”).

• IPA^(key): /biːn/

bin

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

Originated 1250–1300 from Middle English beynge.

• IPA^(key): /bɪn/

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;

• Kathleen A. Browne (1927) “THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD.”, in Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of lreland (Sixth Series)‎^[4], volume 17, number 2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 133

Borrowed from Spanish vena, from Latin vēna.

bin

1. vein

• 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)‎^[5] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 16