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bin | pi |

As a noun pi is

foot.

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

    * * * ----

    pi

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The name of the sixteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets and the seventeenth in Old Greek.
  • (mathematics) An irrational and transcendental constant representing the ratio of the circumference of a Euclidean circle to its diameter; approximately 3.1415926535897932384626433832795; usually written .
  • (metal typesetting) Metal type that has been spilled, mixed together, or disordered. Also called pie.

    • Synonyms

    * (irrational constant) Archimedes' constant, Ludolph's constant, Ludolph's number

    Verb

  • (metal typesetting) To spill or mix printing type. Also, "to pie".

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (typography) Not part of the usual font character set; especially, non-Roman type or symbols as opposed to standard alphanumeric Roman type.
    • In computing, pi characters are entered with special combinations of keys like ctrl-alt-x, or via character sequences such as &
  • 123;.

    • Abbreviation

    (Abbreviation) (head)
  • (typography) pica (conventionally, 12 points = 1 pica, 6 picas = 1 inch)
  • piaster
  • pious

    • Related terms

    * cicero * pica stick

    Anagrams

    * English two-letter words ----