Definition of "bin" in Englisch

noun

1. A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.

   • a corn bin
   • a wine bin
   • a coal bin

2. A container for rubbish or waste.

   • a rubbish bin
   • a wastepaper bin
   • an ashes bin

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.

6. (slang) Ellipsis of loony bin (“lunatic asylum”).

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

verb

1. (chiefly British, informal) To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.

2. (British, informal) To throw away, reject, give up.

3. (statistics) To convert continuous data into discrete groups.

4. (transitive) To place into a bin for storage.

   • to bin wine

noun

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

contraction

1. (text messaging) Contraction of being.

verb

1. (obsolete, dialectal and text messaging) Alternative form of been.

noun

1. (computing) Clipping of binary.