Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A container or enclosed space for storage.
- transitive verb To place or store in a bin.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A heap or pile.
- To put into or store in a bin: as, to
bin liquor. - A shortened form of
been , past participle, and obsolete infinitive and present indicative plural, of be. Bin is the ordinary pronunciation in the United States of the past participle been. - Within; inside.
- Of place, within; inside of; in.
- Of time, within; during.
- noun A box or inclosed place used as a repository for any commodity: as, a corn-bin; a coal-bin.
- noun One of the open subdivisions of a cellar for the reception of wine-bottles.
- noun Also spelled
binn .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To put into a bin.
- obsolete An old form of
be andbeen . - noun A box, frame, crib, or inclosed place, used as a receptacle for any commodity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
container used for storage. - noun A container for
rubbish orwaste . - verb chiefly UK, informal To
dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin. - verb UK, informal To
throw away ,reject ,give up . - verb statistics To convert
continuous data intodiscrete groups. - verb Alternative form of
been . - noun computing, informal A short form of
binary - noun
son of; equivalent to Hebrewבן (ben ). - phrase text messaging Contraction of
being
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quantity contained in a bin
- noun 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
- verb store in bins
- noun a container; usually has a lid
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Plist. bin and Plist. txt, select \ "Plist. bin\" and open it; Then, power offon once, the depop operation is done.
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If you do, then critical Cygwin system directories like and bin could easily be corrupted by other (non-Cygwin) applications or packages that use or \bin.
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(grep "bin / perl" / usr / bin*) I find a lot of perl programs I can try to read which are written by experienced programmers.
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They added just quotes from what they called the bin Laden speech.
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That or run launchy to open the bin; once the recycle bin is open you can do all of the above at once, including drag and drop to a taskbar icon or the window itself.
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I mostly shift-delete files, so my recycle bin is always empty. ssj4Gogeta
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Delete the other default quick launch shortcuts (internet explorer, show desktop, etc), so just your recycle bin is there. achali phoenix
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arby commented on the word bin
British for trash can
June 23, 2007