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short for waste-bin, has given rise in British English to a transitive verb to bin, meaning 'to throw away' or (figuratively) 'to reject':

Who remembers the kind of middle-class good behaviour, thrift and modesty that have been binned along with Bromo, the Church Times and meals for one?—Independent on Sunday, 1990.

The inflections are binned, binning.

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(BINary) A popular directory name in the Unix world for storing executable programs, device drivers and other binary files. See bin file and binaries.

The Bin Folder

Note the bin folder in this Konqueror file manager window. Konqueror is the Linux equivalent of Explorer in Windows or Finder in the Mac and comes with the KDE user interface, commonly used in Linux.

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A container for storing loose materials, such as sand or crushed rock.

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Same as Hebrew ben in ben Gurion: "son of." "Daughter of" in Arabic would be bint, as in "Fatima bint Muhammad," the daughter of Mohammad. (Osama bin Laden's father is actually "Mohammad bin Awad bin Laden.") Arabic and Hebrew are very closely related Semitic (Afroasiatic) languages. In the West, children generally take their last name from their fathers but originally there were no last names, so when last names became necessary, many were taken from first names, e.g. Irish O'Grady indicated "son of Grady" and Scottish MacDonald, "son of Donald." In Russian, children still inherit their father's first and last name: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin tells us that the Russian president's father was Vladimir Putin, too. -Ov is a possessive suffix ("belongs to") and -ich is a diminutive suffix ("small one").

IN BRIEF: n. - A container; The quantity contained in a bin v. - Store in bins.

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For a list of words related to bin, see:

• Cases, Boxes, and Bags - bin: box, frame, or enclosure used for storage
• Cases, Cupboards, and Chests - bin: enclosed box, frame, or crib for storage

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See words rhyming with "bin."

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - affaldsspand
v. tr. - smide i affaldsspanden

idioms:

• bin liner    affaldspose

Nederlands (Dutch)
(vuilnis)bak, trommel, opslagplaats, weggooien, opslaan in trommel

Français (French)
n. - boîte, coffre, huche, (GB) casier à bouteilles
v. tr. - mettre à la poubelle, jeter, mettre dans un coffre

idioms:

• bin liner    sac poubelle

Deutsch (German)
n. - Behälter, Kasten, Eimer
v. - wegwerfen, in einen Kasten legen

idioms:

• bin liner    Mülltüte

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - δοχείο, κιβώτιο, κάδος, τενεκές, κασόνι
v. - αποθηκεύω, στοιβάζω

idioms:

• bin liner    σακούλα σκουπιδιών

Italiano (Italian)
contenitore

idioms:

• bin liner    sacchetto per immondizie

Português (Portuguese)
n. - caixa (f), depósito (m)
v. - guardar, armazenar em caixa

idioms:

• bin liner    saco (m) plástico colocado dentro da lixeira para coletar o lixo

Русский (Russian)
бункер, одинаковый сорт вина

idioms:

• bin liner    мешок вкладывать в мусорное ведро

Español (Spanish)
n. - lata, bote, recipiente, compartimiento
v. tr. - poner en una caja, colocar en una lata o recipiente

idioms:

• bin liner    cubo de basura

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - lår, låda, kista, (vin)fack, vinställ
v. - kasta

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
箱子, 仓, 容器, 二进制目标文件, 把...放入箱中

idioms:

• bin liner    大箱子的加强塑料带

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 箱子, 倉, 容器, 二進位目標檔案
v. tr. - 把...放入箱中

idioms:

• bin liner    大箱子的加強塑膠帶

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 저장 상자, 즈크 부대, 작은 집
v. tr. - ~을 상자에 넣다, 저장 장소에 넣다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - ふた付きの大箱, ズック袋, 貯蔵所, ぶどう酒貯蔵所, 貯蔵箱

idioms:

• bin liner    ごみ箱の補強用のプラスチック袋

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) وعاء, صفيحه, صندوق (فعل) رمى في صندوق القمامه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮ארגז, תיבה‬
v. tr. - ‮לאחסן בתיבה‬

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