The difference between Bin and Scrap
When used as nouns, bin means a box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container, whereas scrap means a (small) piece.
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 scrap means to discard.
Bin is also contraction with the meaning: contraction of being.
check bellow for the other definitions of Bin and Scrap
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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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Scrap as a noun:
A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
Examples:
"I found a scrap of cloth to patch the hole."
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Scrap as a noun (usually, in the plural):
Leftover food.
Examples:
"Give the scraps to the dogs and watch them fight."
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Scrap as a noun:
The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
Examples:
"pork scraps"
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Scrap as a noun (uncountable):
Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
Examples:
"That car isn't good for anything but scrap."
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Scrap as a noun (ethnic slur, offensive):
A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Norte gang.
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Scrap as a verb (transitive):
To discard.
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Scrap as a verb (transitive, of a project or plan):
To stop working on indefinitely.
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Scrap as a verb (intransitive):
To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
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Scrap as a verb (transitive):
To dispose of at a scrapyard.
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Scrap as a verb (transitive):
To make into scrap.
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Scrap as a noun:
A fight, tussle, skirmish.
Examples:
"We got in a little scrap over who should pay the bill."
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Scrap as a verb:
to fight