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bin

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Translingual

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bin

  1. (international standards)ISO 639-2&ISO 639-3language codeforEdo.

English

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A rubbish bin.

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishbynne,fromOld Englishbinne(“crib, manger”),fromProto-West Germanic*binnu,*binnā,fromGaulishbenna(“four-wheeled cart; caisson”)(compareOld Irishbuinne,Welshben(“cart”),Old Bretonbenn(“caisson”)). Cognate withWest Frisianbin(“wicker basket”),Middle Dutchbenne(“basket”),whence modernDutchben(“wicker basket”),GermanBenne(“wheelbarrow”).

Noun

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bin(pluralbins)

  1. A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as astoragecontainer.
    Synonyms:container,receptacle
    a cornbin
    a winebin
    a coalbin
  2. A container forrubbishorwaste.
    Synonyms:(British)dustbin,(British, Australian)rubbish bin,(US)garbage can,trash can;see alsoThesaurus:waste bin
    a rubbishbin
    a wastepaperbin
    an ashesbin
    • 2013August 10, Le xing ton, “Keeping the mighty honest”,inThe Economist,volume408,number8848:
      British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through theirbins.Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.
  3. (statistics)Any of thediscreteintervalsin ahistogram,etc
  4. Any of the fixed-size chunks into whichairspaceis divided for the purposes ofradar.
  5. (MLE,MTE,slang,uncommon)Jailorprison.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:jail
    • 2018October 22, “Subs”, Slipz of Hoxton (lyrics)‎[1]:
      Free up my G's locked in thebin
      Jail house comin' like subs
      one comes out then one goes in
  6. (slang)Short forloony bin(“lunatic asylum”).
    • 1973,New Scientist,volume58,number852,page822:
      At the moment, and in "an emergency", you or I could be sent to thebin,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".
  7. (video post-production)A digital file folder for organisingmediain anon-linear editingprogram.
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Verb

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bin(third-person singular simple presentbins,present participlebinning,simple past and past participlebinned)

  1. (chieflyBritish,informal)Todisposeof (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.
    Synonyms:chuck,chuck away,discard,dump;see alsoThesaurus:junk
    • 2008,Tom Holt,Falling Sideways,Orbit books,,→ISBN,page28:
      He put the bank statement in the shoebox marked "Bank Statements" andbinnedthe rest.
  2. (British,informal)Tothrow away,reject,give up.
    • 2002,Christopher Harvie,Scotland: A Short History,Oxford University Press,→ISBN,page59:
      This splendid eloquence was promptlybinnedby the pope,[…]
    • 2005,Ian Oliver,War and peace in the Balkans: the diplomacy of conflict in the former Yugoslavia,I.B. Tauris,→ISBN,page238:
      The CC [Co-ordinating Centre] had long sincebinnedthe idea of catching the regular shuttle service,[…]
    • 2021September 22, Howard Johnston, “NR: stop firefighting and plan for long-term progress”, inRAIL,number940,page11:
      NR also wants more effort made tobinout-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.
  3. (statistics)To convertcontinuousdata intodiscretegroups.
  4. (transitive)To place into a bin for storage.
    tobinwine
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Etymology 2

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FromArabicبِن(bin,“son”).

Noun

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bin

  1. (in Arabic names)sonof; equivalent to Hebrewבן(ben).

Etymology 3

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Contractionofbeing.

Contraction

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bin

  1. (text messaging)Contraction ofbeing.

Etymology 4

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Contractionofbeen.

Verb

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bin

  1. (obsolete,dialectalandtext messaging)Alternative form ofbeen
    • 1669,Christopher Merrett,letter to Thomas Browne:
      Many of thelupus piscisI have seen, and havebininformed by the king's fishmonger they are taken on our coast[…]

Etymology 5

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Clippingofbinary.

Noun

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bin(countableanduncountable,pluralbins)

  1. (computing)Clipping ofbinary.

Anagrams

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Biak

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Noun

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bin

  1. woman
    • [2]:FAFYAR BEKUR KORBEN MA BIN YOMGA: "THE STORY ABOUT DRAGON AND THE YOMGA WOMAN"
      Korben ine fyair bin berande ido bebaraprapen ro yaf narewara bo bebur mumra si.: This dragon usually watched the women who usually went landward and roasted (food) along the gardens and went home seaward.

Dalmatian

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Etymology

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FromLatinbene.CompareRomanianbine,Italianbene,Spanishbien,Frenchbien.

Adverb

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bin

  1. well
    Jusai bin.―Iam well.

Noun

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bin

  1. good

Egyptian

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Romanization

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bin

  1. Manuel de Codage transliterationofbjn.

French

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Adverb

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bin

  1. Alternative spelling ofbien

German

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Etymology

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FromMiddle High German,fromOld High Germanbim(“am”),fromProto-Germanic*biumi(first-person singular present active indicative ofProto-Germanic*beuną(“to be”)), fromProto-Indo-European*bʰew-(“to be, become, appear”).Cognate withDutchben(“am”),Old Englishbēom(“am”).More atbe.

Germanbinand Dutchbenhave two sources:

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Verb

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bin

  1. first-personsingularpresentofsein

References

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  1. ^Friedrich Kluge(1989) “bin”, inElmar Seebold,editor,Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache(in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter,→ISBN

Guinea-Bissau Creole

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Etymology

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FromPortuguesevir.Cognate withKabuverdianuben.

Verb

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bin

  1. tocome

Indonesian

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Etymology

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FromMalaybin, fromClassical Malaybin,fromArabicبِن(bin,“son”).

Noun

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bin(first-person possessivebinku,second-person possessivebinmu,third-person possessivebinnya)

  1. son(of)

Japanese

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bin

  1. Rōmajitranscription ofびん

Krio

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Etymology

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FromEnglishbeen.

Pronunciation

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IPA(key):/bìn/

Particle

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bìn

  1. Marks simple past tense

Malay

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Etymology

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FromClassical Malaybin,fromArabicبِن(bin,“son”).Cognate to Indonesianbin.

Noun

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bin

  1. (name custom)son(of)
  • AmirbinAiman
    AmirbinAiman

Maltese

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Etymology

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FromArabicبِن(bin).One of very few words in which a stressed final short vowel is not indicated by doubling the following consonant (another example beinglil). This is because there is no gemination before suffixes (compare e.g.binha(“her son”)).

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bin

  1. construct form ofiben
    Binil-Bniedem―Son of Man

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  • As a tendency, this form is used before the definite article and before names, while unchangedibenis used otherwise.

Mandarin

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Romanization

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bin

  1. Nonstandardspelling ofbīn.
  2. Nonstandardspelling ofbǐn.
  3. Nonstandardspelling ofbìn.

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  • Transcriptionsof Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the criticaltonaldifferences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

North Frisian

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Etymology

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FromOld Frisianbinda,which derives fromProto-Germanic*bindaną.

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bin

  1. (Heligoland)tobind

Northern Kurdish

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Etymology

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FromProto-Iranian*buHnáh(“base, foundation”),fromProto-Indo-Iranian*bʰudʰnás(“bottom, ground”),from a reshaping ofProto-Indo-European*bʰudʰ(m̥)nés,genitive singular of*bʰudʰmḗn(“bottom”).Related toOssetianбын(byn),Persianبن(bon).

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Noun

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binm(Arabic spellingبن)

  1. foundation,bottom;base
    Synonym:verenk
    Antonyms:qehf,ser

Declension

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Declension of bin
Definite masculine gender
Case Singular Plural
Nominative bin bin
Construct binê binên
Oblique binî binan
Demonstrative oblique wîbinî wanbinan
Vocative bino binino
Indefinite masculine gender
Case Singular Plural
Nominative binek binin
Construct binekî binine
Oblique binekî bininan

Preposition

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bin(Arabic spellingبن)

  1. below,under,beneath
    Antonym:ser

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  • Chyet, Michael L.(2020) “bin I”,inFerhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary(Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press,page81
  • Chyet, Michael L.(2020) “bin II”,inFerhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary(Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press,page81

Papiamentu

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromSpanishvenirandKabuverdianuben.

Verb

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bin

  1. tocome

Pennsylvania German

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Etymology

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CompareGermanbin,Dutchben.

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Verb

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bin

  1. first-personsingularpresentindicativeofsei

Swahili

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Etymology

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BorrowedfromArabicبِن(bin,“son”).

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Noun

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bin(n class,pluralbin)

  1. sonof
    Khamis bin Abdallah―Khamis the son of Abdallah

Swedish

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Noun

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bin

  1. indefinitepluralofbi

Taivoan

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Noun

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bin

  1. brother

Talysh

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Verb

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bin

  1. presentstem ofvinde

Tok Pisin

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Etymology 1

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FromEnglishbeen.

Particle

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bin

  1. Marks thesimple pasttense.
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Tok Pisin tense and aspect markers:

Etymology 2

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FromEnglishbean.

Noun

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bin

  1. bean,beans

Turkish

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Turkish numbers(edit)
← 100 ← 900 1,000
100
Cardinal:bin
Ordinal:bininci
Distributive:biner

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Etymology 1

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InheritedfromOttoman Turkishبیك(biŋ,“thousand”),fromProto-Turkic*bïŋ(“thousand”).Cognate withOld Turkic𐰉𐰃𐰭(b¹iŋ/⁠bïŋ⁠/),𐰋𐰃𐰭(b²iŋ/⁠biŋ⁠/),Old Uyghur𐽹𐽶𐽺𐽷(mïŋ,“thousand”),Bashkirмең(meñ,“thousand”),Tatarмең(meñ,“thousand”)andMongolianмянган(mjangan,“thousand”)a Turkic borrowing.

Noun

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bin

  1. thousand
Declension
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Inflection
Nominative bin
Definite accusative bini
Singular Plural
Nominative bin binler
Definite accusative bini binleri
Dative bine binlere
Locative binde binlerde
Ablative binden binlerden
Genitive binin binlerin
Possessive forms
Nominative
Singular Plural
1st singular binim binlerim
2nd singular binin binlerin
3rd singular bini binleri
1st plural binimiz binlerimiz
2nd plural bininiz binleriniz
3rd plural binleri binleri
Definite accusative
Singular Plural
1st singular binimi binlerimi
2nd singular binini binlerini
3rd singular binini binlerini
1st plural binimizi binlerimizi
2nd plural bininizi binlerinizi
3rd plural binlerini binlerini
Dative
Singular Plural
1st singular binime binlerime
2nd singular binine binlerine
3rd singular binine binlerine
1st plural binimize binlerimize
2nd plural bininize binlerinize
3rd plural binlerine binlerine
Locative
Singular Plural
1st singular binimde binlerimde
2nd singular bininde binlerinde
3rd singular bininde binlerinde
1st plural binimizde binlerimizde
2nd plural bininizde binlerinizde
3rd plural binlerinde binlerinde
Ablative
Singular Plural
1st singular binimden binlerimden
2nd singular bininden binlerinden
3rd singular bininden binlerinden
1st plural binimizden binlerimizden
2nd plural bininizden binlerinizden
3rd plural binlerinden binlerinden
Genitive
Singular Plural
1st singular binimin binlerimin
2nd singular bininin binlerinin
3rd singular bininin binlerinin
1st plural binimizin binlerimizin
2nd plural bininizin binlerinizin
3rd plural binlerinin binlerinin
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  • binbir(“very many”,literally“a thousand and one”)
  • binlerce(“thousands of”)

Etymology 2

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Verb

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bin

  1. second-personsingularimperativeofbinmek

Welsh

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed fromEnglishbin.

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binm(pluralbiniauorbins)

  1. bin,trashcan

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Mutated formsofbin
radical soft nasal aspirate
bin fin min unchanged

Note:Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Etymology 2

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Mutated form ofpin(“pine trees”).

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bin

  1. Soft mutation ofpin(“pine trees”).

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Mutated formsofpin
radical soft nasal aspirate
pin bin mhin phin

Note:Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Yola

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Originated 1250–1300 fromMiddle Englishbeynge.

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bin

  1. being
    • 1927,“PAUDEEN FOUGHLAAN'S WEDDEEN”, inTHE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD,page133,line 3:
      Shubinvrem Vorth, an hay vrem Bargee,
      Shebeingfrom Forth and he from Bargy;

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  • Kathleen A. Browne (1927)The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2,Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page133

Zoogocho Zapotec

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromSpanishvena,fromLatinvēna.

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bin

  1. vein

References

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  • Long C., Rebecca, Cruz M., Sofronio (2000)Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca(Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”;38)‎[3](in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.:Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C.,page16
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