bin
Translingual edit
Symbol edit
bin
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- enPR: bĭn, IPA(key): /bɪn/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪn
- Homophone: been (General American, Received Pronunciation, New Zealand)
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English binne, from Old English binne (“crib, manger”), from Proto-West Germanic *binnu, *binnā, from Gaulish benna (“four-wheeled cart; caisson”) (compare Old Irish buinne, Welsh benn (“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 edit
bin (plural bins)
- A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
- Synonyms: container, receptacle
- a corn bin
- a wine bin
- a coal bin
- 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.
- (statistics) 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.
- (MLE, 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
- (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".
Derived terms edit
- ash-bin
- bargain bin
- bass bin
- bin bag
- bin-bag
- bin chicken
- bin day
- bin fire
- bin juice
- bin liner
- bin lorry
- bin man
- binman
- bin off
- bin stick
- bin tipper
- binwidth
- blood bin
- book bin
- bozo bin
- bread bin
- cargo bin
- chilly bin
- clothing bin
- communal bin
- compost bin
- dump bin
- dust bin
- dustbin
- garbage bin
- good as wheat in the bin
- litter bin
- looney bin
- loony bin
- paper bin
- pedal bin
- recycle bin
- recycling bin
- rubbish bin
- sensory bin
- sin bin
- sin-bin
- swing bin
- top bin
- trash bin
- wash bin
- washing bin
- waste bin
- wastepaper bin
- wheelie bin
Translations edit
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Verb edit
bin (third-person singular simple present bins, present participle binning, simple past and past participle binned)
- (chiefly Britain, 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
- (Britain, informal) To throw away, reject, give up.
- 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.
- (statistics) To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
- (transitive) To place into a bin for storage.
- to bin wine
Translations edit
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
bin
Etymology 3 edit
Contraction of being
Contraction edit
bin
- (text messaging) Contraction of being.
Etymology 4 edit
Contraction of been
Verb edit
bin
- (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 edit
Noun edit
bin (countable and uncountable, plural bins)
Anagrams edit
Biak edit
Noun edit
bin
Dalmatian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin bene. Compare Romanian bine, Italian bene, Spanish bien, French bien.
Adverb edit
bin
- well
- Ju sai bin. ― I am well.
Noun edit
bin
Egyptian edit
Romanization edit
bin
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Adverb edit
bin
- Alternative spelling of bien
German edit
Etymology edit
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)[1]
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
bin
References edit
- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989), “bin”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN
Guinea-Bissau Creole edit
Etymology edit
From Portuguese vir. Cognate with Kabuverdianu ben.
Verb edit
bin
- to come
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
From Malay bin, from Classical Malay bin, from Arabic بِن (bin, “son”).
Noun edit
bin (first-person possessive binku, second-person possessive binmu, third-person possessive binnya)
- son (of)
Japanese edit
Romanization edit
bin
Krio edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Particle edit
bin
- Marks simple past tense
Maltese edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
Noun edit
bin
- construct form of iben
Usage notes edit
- As a tendency, this form is used before the definite article and before names, while unchanged iben is used otherwise.
Mandarin edit
Romanization edit
bin
- Nonstandard spelling of bīn.
- Nonstandard spelling of bǐn.
- Nonstandard spelling of bìn.
Usage notes edit
- 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 edit
Etymology edit
From Old Frisian binda, which derives from Proto-Germanic *bindaną.
Verb edit
bin
- (Heligoland) to bind
Northern Kurdish edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
Noun edit
bin m (Arabic spelling بن)
Declension edit
Preposition edit
bin (Arabic spelling بن)
References edit
- 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 edit
Alternative forms edit
- bini (synonym)
Etymology edit
From Spanish venir and Kabuverdianu ben.
Verb edit
bin
- to come
Swahili edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic بِن (bin, “son”).
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Noun edit
bin (n class, plural bin)
Swedish edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -iːn
Noun edit
bin
- indefinite plural of bi
Taivoan edit
Noun edit
bin
Talysh edit
Verb edit
bin
Tok Pisin edit
Etymology 1 edit
Particle edit
bin
- Marks the simple past tense.
See also edit
Tok Pisin tense markers:
- pinis (past perfect tense)
- bin (simple past tense)
- stap (progressive tense)
- bai/baimbai (future tense)
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
bin
Turkish edit
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Cardinal: bin Ordinal: bininci Distributive: biner |
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Ottoman Turkish بیك (biŋ, “thousand”), from Proto-Turkic *bïŋ (“thousand”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰉𐰃𐰭 (b¹iŋ /bïŋ/), 𐰋𐰃𐰭 (b²iŋ /biŋ/), Old Uyghur mynk (mïŋ, “thousand”), Bashkir мең (meñ, “thousand”), Tatar мең (meñ, “thousand”) and Mongolian мянган (mjangan, “thousand”) a Turkic borrowing.
Noun edit
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Nominative | bin | binler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | bini | binleri | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dative | bine | binlere | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | binde | binlerde | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ablative | binden | binlerden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | binin | binlerin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
bin
Welsh edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
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Mutation edit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
bin | fin | min | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Etymology 2 edit
Mutated form of pin (“pine trees”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bin
- Soft mutation of pin (“pine trees”).
Mutation edit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
pin | bin | mhin | phin |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Yola edit
Etymology edit
Originated 1250–1300 from Middle English beynge.
Verb edit
bin
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish vena, from Latin vēna.
Noun edit
bin
References edit
- 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