bin
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Is bin a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (statistics) Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc
2. (MLE, MTE, slang, uncommon) Jail or prison.Examples: "Free up my G's locked in the bin Jail house comin' like subs one comes out then one goes in"Synonyms: big house, borstal, bridewell, brig, calaboose, can, chokey, chokyMulticultural-London-Englishslanguncommon
3. (slang) Ellipsis of loony bin (“lunatic asylum”).Examples: "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.”"abbreviationalt-ofellipsisslang
4. (video post-production) A digital file folder for organising media in a non-linear editing program.
verb (English)
1. (chiefly British, informal) To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.Examples: "He put the bank statement in the shoebox marked "Bank Statements" and binned the rest."Synonyms: chuck, chuck away, discard, dump, junk, 86, bin, canBritishinformal
2. (British, informal) To throw away, reject, give up.Examples: "This splendid eloquence was promptly binned by the pope, […]"; "The CC [Co-ordinating Centre] had long since binned the idea of catching the regular shuttle service, […]"; "NR also wants more effort made to bin out-of-date 1970s technology, but only replacing it with equipment that meets customer needs, rather than high-tech kit just for the sake of it."Britishinformal
3. (statistics) To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
4. (transitive) To place into a bin for storage.Examples: "to bin wine"transitive
noun (English)
1. (in Arabic names) son of; equivalent to Hebrew בן (ben).
contraction (English)
1. (text messaging) Contraction of being.Internetabbreviationalt-ofcontraction
verb (English)
1. (obsolete, dialectal and text messaging) Alternative form of been.Examples: "Many of the lupus piscis I have seen, and have bin informed by the king's fishmonger they are taken on our coast […]"Internetalt-ofalternativedialectalobsolete
noun (English)
1. (computing) Clipping of binary.abbreviationalt-ofclippingcountableuncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary