The difference between Bin and Receptacle

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


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 Receptacle

  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. Receptacle as a noun:

    A container.

  2. Receptacle as a noun (botany):

    The part of the flower stalk (peduncle or pedicel) to which the floral parts are attached; a thalamus, a torus. In the Asteraceae (aster or sunflower family), the end of the peduncle to which all of the florets of the flower head are attached.

  3. Receptacle as a noun (phycology):

    A structure at the end of a branch of an alga containing conceptacles (reproductive organs).

  4. Receptacle as a noun (zoology):

    An organ that receives and holds a secretion.

  5. Receptacle as a noun (electricity, US):

    A contact device installed at an outlet for the connection of an attachment plug (typically by receiving the plug's prongs) to supply portable appliances or equipment.