bin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bĭn
ipa: /bɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
homophone: been stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: bins
Etymology: 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”).
Senses: examples: text: a corn bin
text: a wine bin
text: a coal bin
synonyms: container
receptacle
glosses: A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
examples: text: a rubbish bin
text: a wastepaper bin
text: an ashes bin
text: 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.
ref: 2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
synonyms: word: dustbin
word: rubbish bin
word: garbage can
word: trash can
word: waste bin
word: wastebin
glosses: A container for rubbish or waste.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc
glosses: Any of the fixed-size chunks into which airspace is divided for the purposes of radar.
examples: text: Free up my G's locked in the bin
Jail house comin' like subs
one comes out then one goes in
ref: 2018 October 22, “Subs”, Slipz of Hoxton (lyrics):
synonyms: word: big house
word: borstal
word: bridewell
word: brig
word: calaboose
word: can
word: chokey
word: choky
word: clink
word: correctional facility
word: correctional institution
word: crowbar hotel
word: detention centre
word: dungeon
word: gaol
word: glasshouse
word: graybar hotel
word: guardhouse
word: gulag
word: hock
word: hole
word: honor farm
word: hoosegow
word: house of detention
word: iron house
word: jail
word: jailhouse
word: joint
word: jug
word: juvenile hall
word: juvie
word: lockup
word: nigger university
word: nick
word: pen
word: penal colony
word: penitentiary
word: pokey
word: porridge
word: prison
word: prison camp
word: prison farm
word: prison hulk
word: prison ship
word: queer ken
word: remand center
word: roundhouse
word: slammer
word: slam
word: stalag
word: stir
word: stockade
word: tronk
word: up the river
word: workhouse
word: Alcatraz
word: Attica
word: Bastille
word: Dartmoor
word: Devil's Island
word: Folsom
word: Hanoi Hilton
word: Leavenworth
word: Lefortovo
word: Maze
word: Pelican Bay
word: San Quentin
word: Sing Sing
word: Tower
glosses: Jail or prison.
examples: text: 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".
ref: 1973, New Scientist, volume 58, number 852, page 822:
text: “She’s crazy,” I said. “She should be in a bin.”
ref: 1988, Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye:
glosses: Ellipsis of loony bin (“lunatic asylum”).
qualifier: video post-production
glosses: A digital file folder for organising media in a non-linear editing program.
Derived terms: ashbin
ash-bin
bargain bin
bass bin
bin-bag
bin bag
binbag
bin chicken
bin day
bin diving
bin fire
binful
Bingate
bin juice
binlike
binliner
bin liner
binload
bin lorry
binman
bin man
binnable
binner
bin night
bin off
binology
binsite
bin stick
bin store
bin tipper
binwidth
blood bin
book bin
bozo bin
bread bin
cargo bin
chilly bin
clothing bin
coalbin
communal bin
compost bin
dump bin
dumpbin
dust bin
dustbin
feedbin
garbage bin
good as wheat in the bin
headbin
litter bin
looney bin
loony bin
nappy bin
overhead bin
paper bin
pastebin
pedal bin
rebin
recycle bin
recycling bin
rubbish bin
sandbin
sensory bin
sin bin
sin-bin
swing bin
top bin
trash bin
wash bin
washing bin
wastebin
waste bin
wastepaper bin
wheelie bin
woodbin