bin

Meanings

Plural: bins

Noun

a container; usually has a lid
the quantity contained in a bin
an identification number consisting of a two-part code assigned to banks and savings associations; the first part shows the location and the second identifies the bank itself
A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
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.
son of; equivalent to Hebrew בן (ben).
Clipping of binary.

Verb

store in bins
To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.
To throw away, reject, give up.
To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
To place into a bin for storage.
Alternative form of been.

Contraction

Contraction of being.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English bynne, from Old English binn (“crib, manger”), from Proto-West Germanic *binnu, *binnā, from Gaulish benna (“four-wheeled cart; caisson”) (compare Old Irish buinne, Welsh ben (“cart”), Old Breton benn (“caisson”)). Cognate with West Frisian bin (“wicker basket”), Middle Dutch benne (“basket”), whence modern Dutch ben (“wicker basket”), German Benne (“wheelbarrow”).

Synonyms

86, ABA transit number, Alcatraz, Attica, bank identification number, Bastille, big house, bin, binful, borstal, bridewell, brig, calaboose, can, cast aside, cast away, chokey, choky, chuck, chuck away, chuck out, clink, container, correctional facility, correctional institution, crowbar hotel, Dartmoor, detention centre, Devil's Island, discard, dispose of, ditch, dump, dungeon, dustbin, Folsom, gaol, garbage can, get rid of, glasshouse, graybar hotel, guardhouse, gulag, Hanoi Hilton, hock, hole, honor farm, hoosegow, house of detention, iron house, jail, jailhouse, jettison, joint, jug, junk, juvenile hall, juvie, Leavenworth, Lefortovo, lockup, Maze, nick, nigger university, Pelican Bay, pen, penal colony, penitentiary, pitch, pokey, porridge, prison, prison camp, prison farm, prison hulk, prison ship, queer ken, receptacle, remand center, roundhouse, rubbish bin, San Quentin, scrap, shift, Sing Sing, slam, slammer, stalag, stir, stockade, throw aside, throw away, throw out, toss, Tower, trash, trash can, tronk, up the river, waste bin, wastebin, workhouse

Scrabble Score: 5

bin is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
bin is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
bin is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 7

bin is a valid Words With Friends word