The difference between Bin and Toss
When used as nouns, bin means a box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container, whereas toss means a throw, a lob, of a ball etc., with an initial upward direction, particularly with a lack of care.
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 toss means to throw with an initial upward direction.
Bin is also contraction with the meaning: contraction of being.
check bellow for the other definitions of Bin and Toss
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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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Toss as a noun:
A throw, a lob, of a ball etc., with an initial upward direction, particularly with a lack of care.
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Toss as a noun (cricket, football):
The toss of a coin before a cricket match in order to decide who bats first, or before a football match in order to decide the direction of play.
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Toss as a noun:
A haughty throwing up of the head.
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Toss as a noun (British slang):
A jot, in the phrase 'give a toss'.
Examples:
"I couldn't give a toss about her."
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Toss as a noun (British slang):
A state of agitation; commotion.
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Toss as a noun ([[w:Billingsgate Fish Market, Billingsgate Fish Market]], _, slang):
A measure of sprats.
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Toss as a verb:
To throw with an initial upward direction.
Examples:
"Toss it over here!"
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Toss as a verb:
To lift with a sudden or violent motion.
Examples:
"to toss the head"
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Toss as a verb:
To agitate; to make restless.
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Toss as a verb:
To subject to trials; to harass.
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Toss as a verb:
To flip a coin, to decide a point of contention.
Examples:
"I'll toss you for it."
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Toss as a verb (informal):
To discard: to toss out
Examples:
"I don't need it any more; you can just toss it."
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Toss as a verb:
To stir or mix (a salad).
Examples:
"to toss a salad; a tossed salad."
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Toss as a verb (British slang):
To masturbate
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Toss as a verb (transitive, informal):
To search (a room or a cell), sometimes leaving visible disorder, as for valuables or evidence of a crime.
Examples:
"Someone tossed just his living room and bedroom." / "They probably found what they were looking for."
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Toss as a verb (intransitive):
To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion.
Examples:
"tossing and turning in bed, unable to sleep"
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Toss as a verb (intransitive):
To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean, or as a ship in heavy seas.
Examples:
"rfquotek Shakespeare"
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Toss as a verb (obsolete):
To keep in play; to tumble over.
Examples:
"to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar"
"rfquotek Ascham"
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Toss as a verb (rowing):
To peak (the oars), to lift them from the rowlocks and hold them perpendicularly, the handle resting on the bottom of the boat.
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Toss as a verb (British slang):
To drink in large draughts; to gulp.