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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