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bin | code |

As nouns the difference between bin and code

is that bin is a box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container while code is a short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents.

As verbs the difference between bin and code

is that bin is to dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin while code is to write software programs.

As a contraction bin

is contraction of being.

bin

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) ).

Noun

(en noun)
  • A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
  • A container for rubbish or waste.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
  • , title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins . Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}
  • (statistics) Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc.
  • Synonyms
    * (container) container, receptacle * (container for waste) dustbin, rubbish bin (both British), garbage can, trash can (both US)

    Verb

    (binn)
  • To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.
  • * 2008 , , Falling Sideways , Orbit books, ISBN 1-84149-110-1, p. 28:
  • To throw away, reject, give up.
  • * 2002 , Christopher Harvie, Scotland: A Short History , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-210054-8, p. 59:
  • * 2005 , Ian Oliver, War and peace in the Balkans: the diplomacy of conflict in the former Yugoslavia , I.B. Tauris, ISBN 1-850438-89-7, p. 238:
  • (label) To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
  • (label) To place into a bin for storage.
  • Synonyms
    * (dispose of in a bin) chuck, chuck away, chuck out, discard, ditch, dump, junk, scrap, throw away, throw out, toss, trash * See also

    Derived terms

    {{der3, bin bag , bin liner , binman , bread bin , dustbin , rubbish bin , wheelie bin}}

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (head)
  • (lb) son of; equivalent to Hebrew .
  • Etymology 3

    Contraction of being

    Contraction

    (en-contraction)
  • (label) Contraction of being
  • Etymology 4

    Contraction of been

    Verb

    (head)
  • Etymology 5

    Short for (binary).

    Noun

    (-)
  • Anagrams

    * * * ----

    code

    English

    (wikipedia code)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents.
  • A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.
  • * (Francis Wharton) (1820-1899)
  • The collection of laws made by the order of Justinian is sometimes called, by way of eminence, "The Code ".
  • Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject; as, the medical code, a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians; the naval code, a system of rules for making communications at sea means of signals.
  • A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
  • # By synecdoche: a codeword, code point, an encoded representation of a character, symbol, or other entity.
  • A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Magician’s brain , passage=[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes .}}
  • (label) A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words]] or phrases into [[codeword, codewords.
  • (label) Instructions for a computer, written in a programming language; the input of a translator, an interpreter or a browser, namely: source code, machine code, bytecode.
  • # By synecdoche: any piece of a program, of a document or something else written in a computer language.
  • Derived terms

    * binary code * civil code * code page * codebook * codestream * codeword * colour code * dead code * Gray code * machine code * managed code * Morse code * opcode * promo code * pseudocode * sort code * Unicode * unreachable code

    See also

    * cipher

    Verb

  • (computing) To write software programs.
  • I learned to code on an early home computer in the 1980s.
  • To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
  • (cryptography) To encode.
  • We should code the messages we sent out on Usenet.
  • (medicine) Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency such as cardiac arrest.
  • (genetics) To encode a protein.
  • Derived terms

    * coder * cSNP * decode * encode * hard-coded

    Anagrams

    * * ----