bin

bin

synonyms, antonyms, definitions, examples & translations of bin in English

English Online Dictionary. What means bin‎? What does bin mean?

Translingual

Symbol

bin

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Edo.

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: bĭn, IPA(key): /bɪn/
  • Rhymes: -ɪn
  • Homophone: been (General American, Received Pronunciation, New Zealand)

Etymology 1

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”).

Noun

bin (plural bins)

  1. A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
    Synonyms: container, receptacle
  2. A container for rubbish or waste.
    Synonyms: (British) dustbin, (British, Australian) rubbish bin, (US) garbage can, trash can; see also Thesaurus:waste bin
  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.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:jail
  6. (slang) Short for loony bin (“lunatic asylum”).
  7. (video post-production) A digital file folder for organising media in a non-linear editing program.
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

bin (third-person singular simple present bins, present participle binning, simple past and past participle binned)

  1. (chiefly British, informal) To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.
    Synonyms: chuck, chuck away, discard, dump; see also Thesaurus:junk
  2. (British, informal) To throw away, reject, give up.
  3. (statistics) To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
  4. (transitive) To place into a bin for storage.
Translations

Etymology 2

From Arabic بِن (bin, “son”).

Noun

bin

  1. (in Arabic names) son of; equivalent to Hebrew בן (ben).

Etymology 3

Contraction of being.

Contraction

bin

  1. (text messaging) Contraction of being.

Etymology 4

Contraction of been.

Verb

bin

  1. (obsolete, dialectal and text messaging) Alternative form of been

Etymology 5

Clipping of binary.

Noun

bin (countable and uncountable, plural bins)

  1. (computing) Clipping of binary.

Anagrams

  • BNI, NBI, NIB, ibn, nib

Biak

Noun

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

Etymology

From Latin bene. Compare Romanian bine, Italian bene, Spanish bien, French bien.

Adverb

bin

  1. well
    Ju sai bin. ― I am well.

Noun

bin

  1. good

Egyptian

Romanization

bin

  1. Manuel de Codage transliteration of bjn.

French

Pronunciation

Adverb

bin

  1. Alternative spelling of bien

German

Etymology

From Middle High German, from Old High German bim (“am”), from Proto-Germanic *biumi (first-person singular present active indicative of Proto-Germanic *beuną (“to be”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to be, become, appear”). Cognate with Dutch ben (“am”), Old English bēom (“am”). More at be.

German bin and Dutch ben have two sources:

  • a form based on Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésmi (“am”) like English am, Old Norse em
  • an initial b- that was added to the word under influence of verb forms based on Proto-Germanic *beuną (as in Old English beon)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɪn/

Verb

bin

  1. first-person singular present of sein

References

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese vir. Cognate with Kabuverdianu ben.

Verb

bin

  1. to come

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay bin, from Classical Malay bin, from Arabic بِن (bin, “son”).

Noun

bin (first-person possessive binku, second-person possessive binmu, third-person possessive binnya)

  1. son (of)

Japanese

Romanization

bin

  1. Rōmaji transcription of びん

Krio

Etymology

From English been.

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /bìn/

Particle

bìn

  1. Marks simple past tense

Malay

Etymology

From Classical Malay bin, from Arabic بِن (bin, “son”). Cognate to Indonesian bin.

Noun

bin

  1. (name custom) son (of)

Maltese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɪn/

Noun

bin

  1. construct form of iben
    Bin il-Bniedem ― Son of Man

Usage notes

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

Mandarin

Romanization

bin

  1. Nonstandard spelling of bīn.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of bǐn.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of bìn.

Usage notes

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

North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian binda, which derives from Proto-Germanic *bindaną.

Verb

bin

  1. (Heligoland) to bind

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *buHnáh (“base, foundation”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰudʰnás (“bottom, ground”), from a reshaping of Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰ(m̥)nés, genitive singular of *bʰudʰmḗn (“bottom”). Related to Ossetian бын (byn), Persian بن (bon).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɪn/

Noun

bin m (Arabic spelling بن)

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

Declension

Preposition

bin (Arabic spelling بن)

  1. below, under, beneath
    Antonym: ser

References

  • Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “bin I”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 81
  • Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “bin II”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 81

Papiamentu

Alternative forms

  • bini (synonym)

Etymology

From Spanish venir and Kabuverdianu ben.

Verb

bin

  1. to come

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German bin, Dutch ben.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɪn/

Verb

bin

  1. first-person singular present indicative of sei

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بِن (bin, “son”).

Pronunciation

Noun

bin (n class, plural bin)

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

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -iːn

Noun

bin

  1. indefinite plural of bi

Taivoan

Noun

bin

  1. brother

Talysh

Verb

bin

  1. present stem of vinde

Tok Pisin

Etymology 1

From English been.

Particle

bin

  1. Marks the simple past tense.
See also

Tok Pisin tense and aspect markers:

  • pinis (completive aspect)
  • bin (past tense)
  • stap (progressive aspect or durative aspect)
  • save (habitual aspect)
  • bai/baimbai (future tense)

Etymology 2

From English bean.

Noun

bin

  1. bean, beans

Turkish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbin/

Etymology 1

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish بیك (biŋ, “thousand”), from Proto-Turkic *bïŋ (“thousand”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰉𐰃𐰭 (b¹iŋ /⁠bïŋ⁠/), 𐰋𐰃𐰭 (b²iŋ /⁠biŋ⁠/), Old Uyghur 𐽹𐽶𐽺𐽷 (mïŋ, “thousand”), Bashkir мең (meñ, “thousand”), Tatar мең (meñ, “thousand”) and Mongolian мянган (mjangan, “thousand”) a Turkic borrowing.

Noun

bin

  1. thousand
Declension
Derived terms
  • binbir (“very many”, literally “a thousand and one”)
  • binlerce (“thousands of”)

Etymology 2

Verb

bin

  1. second-person singular imperative of binmek

Welsh

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English bin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɪn/
  • Rhymes: -ɪn

Noun

bin m (plural biniau or bins)

  1. bin, trashcan

Mutation

Etymology 2

Mutated form of pin (“pine trees”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /biːn/

Noun

bin

  1. Soft mutation of pin (“pine trees”).

Mutation

Yola

Etymology

Originated 1250–1300 from Middle English beynge.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /biːn/
  • Homophones: bane, been

Verb

bin

  1. being

References

  • 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, page 133

Zoogocho Zapotec

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vena, from Latin vēna.

Noun

bin

  1. vein

References

  • 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., page 16

Bookmark
share
WebDictionary.net is an Free English Dictionary containing information about the meaning, synonyms, antonyms, definitions, translations, etymology and more.

Related Words

robinson

robin

plumbing

describing

combining

Browse the English Dictionary

A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z

License

This article based on an article on Wiktionary. The list of authors can be seen in the page history there. The original work has been modified. This article is distributed under the terms of this license.