The difference between Bin and Ditch

When used as nouns, bin means a box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container, whereas ditch means a trench.

When used as verbs, bin means to dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin, whereas ditch means to discard or abandon.

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

check bellow for the other definitions of Bin and Ditch

  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. Ditch as a noun:

    A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage.

    Examples:

    "Digging ditches has long been considered one of the most demanding forms of manual labor."

  1. Ditch as a verb (transitive):

    To discard or abandon.

    Examples:

    "Once the sun came out we ditched our rain-gear and started a campfire."

  2. Ditch as a verb (intransitive):

    To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water.

    Examples:

    "When the second engine failed, the pilot was forced to ditch; their last location was just south of the Azores."

  3. Ditch as a verb (intransitive):

    To deliberately not attend classes; to play hookey.

    Examples:

    "The truant officer caught Louise ditching with her friends, and her parents were forced to pay a fine."

  4. Ditch as a verb (intransitive):

    To dig ditches.

    Examples:

    "Enclosure led to fuller winter employment in hedging and ditching."

  5. Ditch as a verb (transitive):

    To dig ditches around.

    Examples:

    "The soldiers ditched the tent to prevent flooding."

  6. Ditch as a verb (transitive):

    To throw into a ditch.

    Examples:

    "The engine was ditched and turned on its side."

  1. Ditch as a verb:

  1. Ditch as a noun:

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