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Drawer vs Bin - What's the difference?

drawer | bin |

As nouns the difference between drawer and bin

is that drawer is an open-topped box that can be slid in and out of the cabinet that contains it, used for storing clothing or other articles while bin is a box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.

As a verb 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.

drawer

English

(wikipedia drawer)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An open-topped box that can be slid in and out of the cabinet that contains it, used for storing clothing or other articles.
  • (non-gloss definition); one who draws.
  • * 2012 August 28, Manny Fernandez, “ Federal Court Finds Texas Voting Maps Discriminatory”, NYTimes.com :
  • Lawyers for Mr. Abbott argued that the maps were drawn to help Republicans maintain power but not to discriminate, and that drawers did not know where district offices were located.
  • * '>citation
  • An artist who primarily makes drawings.
  • (banking) One who writes a bank draft, check/cheque, or promissory note.
  • A barman; a man who draws the beer from the taps.
  • *
  • When the good lieutenant applied himself to the door, he applied himself likewise to the bell; and the drawer immediately attending, he dispatched him for a file of musqueteers and a surgeon.
  • Someone who taps palm sap for making toddy.(w)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
  • , chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer . He had disappeared.}}

    Derived terms

    * chest of drawers * not the sharpest knife in the drawer * top drawer

    See also

    * drawers

    Anagrams

    * * * * English heteronyms

    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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