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Cabin vs Bin - What's the difference?

cabin | bin |

As nouns the difference between cabin and bin

is that cabin is a small dwelling characteristic of the frontier, especially when built from logs with simple tools and not constructed by professional builders, but by those who meant to live in it while bin is a box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.

As verbs the difference between cabin and bin

is that cabin is to place in a cabin while bin is to dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.

As a contraction bin is

contraction of being.

cabin

English

(wikipedia cabin)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (lb) A small dwelling characteristic of the frontier, especially when built from logs with simple tools and not constructed by professional builders, but by those who meant to live in it.
  • :
  • *1994 , Michael Grumley, "Life Drawing" in Violet Quill
  • *:And that was how long we stayed in the cabin , pressed together, pulling the future out of each other, sweating and groaning and making sure each of us remembered.
  • (lb) A chalet or lodge, especially one that can hold large groups of people.
  • A compartment on land, usually comprised of logs.
  • A private room on a ship.
  • :
  • *
  • *:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.
  • The interior of a boat, enclosed to create a small room, particularly for sleeping.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10 , passage=Mr. Cooke had had a sloop?yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin , which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.}}
  • The passenger area of an airplane.
  • The section of a passenger plane having the same class of service.
  • A signal box.
  • A small room; an enclosed place.
  • *(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
  • *:So long in secret cabin there he held her captive.
  • Synonyms

    * cell * chamber * hut * pod * shack * shed

    Antonyms

    * hall * palace * villa

    See also

    * cabana

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To place in a cabin.
  • (obsolete) To live in, or as if in, a cabin; to lodge.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I'll make you cabin in a cave.

    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

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