Bin
Definitions
- son of; equivalent to Hebrew בן (ben).
- Contraction of being.
- Clipping of binary.
- A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
- A surname from Chinese.
- A container for rubbish or waste.
- 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.
- Jail or prison.
- Ellipsis of loony bin (“lunatic asylum”).
- 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.””
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
See also
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