bin
[bin]
- a box or enclosed place for storing grain, coal, or the like.
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- to store in a bin.
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Origin of bin
before 950; Middle English binne, Old English binn(e) crib, perhaps < Celtic; compare Welsh benn cart
bin-
- a combining form meaning “two,” “two at a time,” used in the formation of compound words: binary; binocular.
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Compare bi-1.
Origin of bin-
combining form of Latin bīnī two each, by twos
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Examples from the Web for bin
Contemporary Examples
You were basically the guy to do every dictator or crazy character, from Gaddafi and Ahmadinejad to Bin Laden.
Coffee Talk with Fred Armisen: On ‘Portlandia,’ Meeting Obama, and Taylor Swift’s GreatnessMarlow Stern
January 7, 2015
Yet I had serious trouble understanding how to cheer on the news of Bin Laden or anyone else dying.
The Life and Hard Times Of The Family A Cuban Defector Left BehindBrin-Jonathan Butler
December 19, 2014
Picking up cans and bags out of the bin and throwing them back, over and over.
He held the garbage close to his face, then put it back in the bin.
Bin Zayed said the suspect was identified within 24 hours and arrested within 48 hours of the attacks.
Historical Examples
If it hadn't a bin in Henry's house I'd took a wrestle out of him.
Uncles Josh's Punkin Centre StoriesCal Stewart
WE had bin havin' a good deal of argufyin' about the school house.
Uncles Josh's Punkin Centre StoriesCal Stewart
I must fill the bin of the oxen with hay, and water them, and carry out the dung.
English VillagesP. H. Ditchfield
It's yersel' knows the tinder feet that's on me since ever I 've bin in this counthry.
The Universal ReciterVarious
We jumped to our feet an' shouted, for it was the richest placer that had as yet bin found.
Murder PointConingsby Dawson
bin
- a large container or enclosed space for storing something in bulk, such as coal, grain, or wool
- Also called: bread bin a small container for bread
- Also called: dustbin, rubbish bin a container for litter, rubbish, etc
- British
- a storage place for bottled wine
- one particular bottling of wine
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- (tr) to store in a bin
- (tr) to put in a wastepaper bin
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Word Origin
Old English binne basket, probably of Celtic origin; related to bindan to bind
bin-
- a variant, esp before a vowel, of bi- 1 binocular
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Word Origin and History for bin
n.
"receptacle," Old English binne "basket, manger, crib," probably from Gaulish, from Old Celtic *benna, akin to Welsh benn "a cart," especially one with a woven wicker body. The same Celtic word seems to be preserved in Italian benna "dung cart," French benne "grape-gatherer's creel," Dutch benne "large basket," all from Late Latin benna "cart," Medieval Latin benna "basket." Some linguists think there was a Germanic form parallel to the Celtic one.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
bin-
- Variant ofbi-1
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