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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Examples of "bin" in Sentences
- They added just quotes from what they called the bin Laden speech.
- I mostly shift-delete files, so my recycle bin is always empty. ssj4Gogeta
- Looks like it hit the bargain bin already, and that was the first time I even saw the book. laughing in alaska
- Plist. bin and Plist. txt, select \ "Plist. bin\" and open it; Then, power offon once, the depop operation is done.
- There was a huge range of prices vibrators though, everything from bargain - bin $10 ones all the way up to $300 chiq ones.
- (grep "bin / perl" / usr / bin*) I find a lot of perl programs I can try to read which are written by experienced programmers.
- Delete the other default quick launch shortcuts (internet explorer, show desktop, etc), so just your recycle bin is there. achali phoenix
- If you do, then critical Cygwin system directories like and bin could easily be corrupted by other (non-Cygwin) applications or packages that use or \bin.
- That or run launchy to open the bin; once the recycle bin is open you can do all of the above at once, including drag and drop to a taskbar icon or the window itself.
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