bin
IPA: bˈɪn
noun
- A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
- A container for rubbish or waste.
- (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.
- (in Arabic names) son of; equivalent to Hebrew בן (ben).
- A surname from Chinese.
- (slang) Short for loony bin (“lunatic asylum”). [(slang, derogatory) A lunatic asylum.]
- (computing) Clipping of binary. [A state in which only two values are possible, in which something must have one value or the other.]
verb
- (chiefly Britain, informal) To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.
- (Britain, informal) To throw away, reject, give up.
- (statistics) To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
- (transitive) To place into a bin for storage.
- (obsolete, dialectal and text messaging) Alternative form of been [(Southern US or African-American Vernacular) remote past form of be.]
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