Usually means: Container for storing or disposing.
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We found 50 dictionaries that define the word bin:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. bin, bin-: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bin, bin-: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bin, bin-: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bin, bin-: Collins English Dictionary
  5. BIN, bin: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bin, Bin, bin, bin, bin-: Wordnik
  7. bin: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bin: Wiktionary
  9. bin, bin-: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bin, bin-: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bin: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Bin-, bin, bin-: Dictionary.com
  13. bin: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bin: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. BIN, Bin (computational geometry), Bin, .bin: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bin-, Bin: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bin: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bin: Rhymezone
  19. Bin-, bin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bin: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Bin: Britih-American Dictionary
  22. bin, bin-: MyWord.info
  23. bin, bin-: Free Dictionary
  24. bin: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. BIN, bin: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. bin, bin-: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. bin: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Warhammer Dwarven Word List (No longer online)
  3. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  4. bin-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. BIN: Investopedia

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technology Terms and Acronyms (No longer online)
  2. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  3. Webopedia (No longer online)
  4. BIN (file format), .bin, /bin, bin: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. bin-: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. BIN: Acronym Finder
  2. BIN: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Bin: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. bin, bin: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. bin: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. THE BIN, bin: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See bining as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
noun:  A container for rubbish or waste.
noun:  (statistics) Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc
noun:  Any of the fixed-size chunks into which airspace is divided for the purposes of radar.
noun:  (MLE, slang, uncommon) Jail or prison.
noun:  (video post-production) A digital file folder for organising media in a non-linear editing program.
verb:  (chiefly British, informal) To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.
verb:  (British, informal) To throw away, reject, give up.
verb:  (statistics) To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
verb:  (transitive) To place into a bin for storage.
noun:  (in Arabic names) son of; equivalent to Hebrew בן (ben).
noun:  A surname from Chinese.
noun:  (slang) Short for loony bin (“lunatic asylum”). [(slang, derogatory) A lunatic asylum.]
verb:  (obsolete, dialectal and text messaging) Alternative form of been [(Southern US or African-American Vernacular) remote past form of be.]
noun:  (computing) Clipping of binary. [A state in which only two values are possible, in which something must have one value or the other.]

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