Bin vs Slot - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between bin and slot

is that bin is a box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container while slot is a broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc.

As verbs the difference between bin and slot

is that bin is to dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin while slot is to bolt or lock a door or window.

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

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slot

English

(wikipedia slot)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) slot or (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc.

A metal bolt or wooden bar, especially as a crosspiece.

(electrical) A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.

(slang, surfing) The barrel or tube of a wave.

Verb

(obsolete) To bolt or lock a door or window.

(obsolete, transitive, UK, dialect) To shut with violence; to slam.

to slot a door

Etymology 2

From Old French esclot , of unknown origin.

Noun

(en noun)

A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it.

A gap in a schedule or sequence.

(aviation) The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.

(aviation) In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.

(computing) A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.

The game offers four save slots .

(informal) A slot machine designed for gambling.

(slang) The vagina.

* 2006 , Shelby Reed, Madison Hayes, Love a Younger Man (page 165)

She'd like him jammed into her slot , like him to crank into her and she didn't think ignition would be far off if he did.

* 2006 , Rod Waleman, The Stepdaughters (page 20)

Valerie sighed with pleasure as her husband skillfully found her slot and inserted the head of his straining prick inside, then bucked its thick-stemmed length all the way up her sex-channel.

Derived terms

* slotwise

Verb

To put something (such as a coin) into a slot (narrow aperture)

To assign something or someone into a slot (gap in a schedule or sequence)

To put something where it belongs.

* {{quote-news

, year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Chris Whyatt , title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=And Stamford Bridge erupted with joy as Florent Malouda slotted in a cross from Drogba, who had stayed just onside. }}

Derived terms

* slot in

Etymology 3

From (etyl) esclot, from (etyl) . Compare (sleuth).

Noun

(en noun)

The track of an animal, especially a deer.

:* 1819': “One is from Hexamshire; he is wont to trace the Tynedale and Teviotdale thieves, as a bloodhound follows the '''slot of a hurt deer.” — Walter Scott, ''Ivanhoe

Derived terms

* slot-hound

Anagrams

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