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
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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'"
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Bin as a noun:
A container for rubbish or waste.
Examples:
"a rubbish bin; a wastepaper bin; an ashes bin'"
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Bin as a noun (statistics):
Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc
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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.
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Bin as a verb (British, informal):
To throw away, reject, give up.
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Bin as a verb (statistics):
To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
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Bin as a verb (transitive):
To place into a bin for storage.
Examples:
"to bin wine"
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Bin as a noun (in Arabic names):
son of; equivalent to Hebrew .
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Bin as a verb (obsolete, dialectal, and, text messaging):
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Bin as a noun (computing, informal):
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Container as a noun:
Someone who contains; something that contains.
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Container as a noun:
An item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported.
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Container as a noun (transportation):
A very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods.
Examples:
"synonyms: cargo container"
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Container as a noun (by extension):
Someone who holds people in their seats or in a (reasonably) calm state.
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Container as a noun (computing):
A file format that can hold various types of data.
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Container as a noun (object-oriented programming):
An abstract data type whose instances are collections of other objects.
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Container as a noun (computing, GUI):
Any user interface component that can hold further (child) components.