Meaning

A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container..

Definitions by Sense

1. A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
2. A container for rubbish or waste.
3. (statistics) Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc
4. Any of the fixed-size chunks into which airspace is divided for the purposes of radar.
5. (MLE, MTE, slang, uncommon) Jail or prison.
6. (slang) Ellipsis of loony bin (“lunatic asylum”).
7. (video post-production) A digital file folder for organising media in a non-linear editing program.
8. (chiefly British, informal) To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.

Example Sentences

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

Word Forms

• bins
• binning
• binned

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When Should You Use Bin?

Use bin when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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