Meaning of Bin | Babel Free

Definitions

1. son of; equivalent to Hebrew בן (ben).
2. Contraction of being.
   Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, contraction
3. Clipping of binary.
   abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable
4. A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
5. A surname from Chinese.
6. A container for rubbish or waste.
7. Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc
8. Any of the fixed-size chunks into which airspace is divided for the purposes of radar.
9. Jail or prison.
   Multicultural-London-English, slang, uncommon
10. Ellipsis of loony bin (“lunatic asylum”).
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, slang
11. A digital file folder for organising media in a non-linear editing program.

Equivalents

Examples

“a corn bin”

“a wine bin”

“a coal bin”

“a rubbish bin”

“a wastepaper bin”

“an ashes bin”

“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.”

“Free up my G's locked in the bin Jail house comin' like⟳ subs one comes out then one goes in”

“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".”

““She’s crazy,” I said. “She should be in a bin.””

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