The difference between Bin and Dustbin

When used as nouns, bin means a box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container, whereas dustbin means a bin for holding rubbish until it can be collected.

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 Dustbin

  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. Dustbin as a noun (British):

    A bin for holding rubbish until it can be collected; a garbage can.

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