Bin vs Tub - What's the difference?
bin | tub |
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= (statistics) Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc.
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,
* 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,
(label) To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
(label) To place into a bin for storage.
(lb) son of; equivalent to Hebrew .
A flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in.
The contents or capacity of such a vessel.
A bathtub.
(nautical, informal) A slow-moving craft.
(humorous, or, derogatory) Any structure shaped like a tub, such as a certain old form of pulpit, a short broad boat, etc.
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A small cask.
Any of various historically designated quantities of goods to be sold by the tub (butter, oysters, etc).
(mining) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft.
(obsolete) A sweating in a tub; a tub fast.
(slang) A corpulent or obese person.
To plant, set, or store in a tub.
To bathe.
* London Spectator
In transitive terms the difference between bin and tub
is that bin is to place into a bin for storage while tub is to plant, set, or store in a tub.As nouns the difference between bin and tub
is that bin is a box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container while tub is a flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in.As verbs the difference between bin and tub
is that bin is to dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin while tub is to plant, set, or store in a tub.As a contraction bin
is contraction of being.bin
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ).Noun
(en noun)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.}}
Synonyms
* (container) container, receptacle * (container for waste) dustbin, rubbish bin (both British), garbage can, trash can (both US)Verb
(binn)p. 59:
p. 238:
Synonyms
* (dispose of in a bin) chuck, chuck away, chuck out, discard, ditch, dump, junk, scrap, throw away, throw out, toss, trash * See alsoDerived terms
{{der3, bin bag , bin liner , binman , bread bin , dustbin , rubbish bin , wheelie bin}}Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(head)Etymology 3
Contraction of beingEtymology 4
Contraction of beenVerb
(head)Etymology 5
Short for (binary).Noun
(-)Anagrams
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English
Noun
(en noun)- He bought a tub of lard to roast the potatoes in.
- He added a tub of margarine to the stew.
- All being took up and busied, some in pulpits and some in tubs , in the grand work of preaching and holding forth.
- a tub of gin
- (Shakespeare)
- Lars': You ready to help take down Gizmo?
'''Vault Dweller''': You bet. Let's nail that ' tub . [http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/LARS.MSG]
Derived terms
* bathtub * hot tub * tubbyVerb
(tubb)- to tub a plant
- Don't we all tub in England?