The difference between Bin and Junk

When used as nouns, bin means a box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container, whereas junk means discarded or waste material.

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 junk means to throw away.

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

check bellow for the other definitions of Bin and Junk

  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. Junk as a noun:

    Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash.

  2. Junk as a noun:

    A collection of miscellaneous items of little value.

  3. Junk as a noun (slang):

    Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.

  4. Junk as a noun (slang):

    The clothed genitalia.

  5. Junk as a noun (nautical):

    Salt beef.

  6. Junk as a noun:

    Pieces of old cable or cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.

  7. Junk as a noun (dated):

    A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Lowell"

  1. Junk as a verb (transitive):

    To throw away.

  2. Junk as a verb (transitive):

    To find something for very little money (meaning derived from the term junk shop)

    Examples:

    "(On Facebook, a record collector wrote:) "The newest addition to my Annette Hanshaw collection, I junked this beautiful flawless E-copy within walking distance from my house."

  1. Junk as a noun (nautical):

    A Chinese sailing vessel.

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