The difference between Bin and Container

When used as nouns, bin means a box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container, whereas container means someone who contains.


Bin is also contraction with the meaning: contraction of being.

Bin is also verb with the meaning: to dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.

check bellow for the other definitions of Bin and Container

  1. Bin as a noun:

    A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.

    Examples:

    "a corn bin; a wine bin; a coal bin'"

  2. Bin as a noun:

    A container for rubbish or waste.

    Examples:

    "a rubbish bin; a wastepaper bin; an ashes bin'"

  3. Bin as a noun (statistics):

    Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc

  1. Bin as a verb (chiefly, British, informal):

    To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.

  2. Bin as a verb (British, informal):

    To throw away, reject, give up.

  3. Bin as a verb (statistics):

    To convert continuous data into discrete groups.

  4. Bin as a verb (transitive):

    To place into a bin for storage.

    Examples:

    "to bin wine"

  1. Bin as a noun (in Arabic names):

    son of; equivalent to Hebrew .

  1. Bin as a verb (obsolete, dialectal, and, text messaging):

  1. Bin as a noun (computing, informal):

  1. Container as a noun:

    Someone who contains; something that contains.

  2. Container as a noun:

    An item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported.

  3. Container as a noun (transportation):

    A very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: cargo container"

  4. Container as a noun (by extension):

    Someone who holds people in their seats or in a (reasonably) calm state.

  5. Container as a noun (computing):

    A file format that can hold various types of data.

  6. Container as a noun (object-oriented programming):

    An abstract data type whose instances are collections of other objects.

  7. Container as a noun (computing, GUI):

    Any user interface component that can hold further (child) components.