Jar vs Bin - What's the difference?

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As an initialism jar

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jar

English

(wikipedia jar)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A small, approximately cylindrical container, normally made of glass or clay, for holding fruit, preserves, etc., or for ornamental purposes.

Synonyms

* pot

Derived terms

* cookie jar * jam jar, jamjar * mason jar * spice jar

Etymology 2

Unknown; perhaps imitative.

Verb

To knock or strike sharply.

He hit it with a hammer, hoping he could jar it loose.

To shock or surprise.

I think the accident jarred him, as he hasn't gotten back in a car since.

To look strangely different; to stand out awkwardly from its surroundings; to be incongruent.

To give forth a rudely quivering or tremulous sound; to sound harshly or discordantly.

The notes jarred on my ears.

* Shakespeare:

When such strings jar , what hope of harmony?

* Roscommon:

A string may jar in the best master's hand.

To act in opposition or disagreement; to clash; to interfere; to quarrel; to dispute.

* Spenser:

When those renowned noble peers Greece / Through stubborn pride among themselves did jar .

* Milton:

For orders and degrees / Jar not with liberty, but well consist.

Noun

(en noun)

A shake.

A sense of alarm or dismay.

Discord, contention; quarrelling.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.ii:

He maketh warre, he maketh peace againe, / And yet his peace is but continuall iarre [...].

* 1612 , John Smith, Proceedings , in Kupperman 1988, page 122:

To redresse those jarres and ill proceedings, the Councell in England altered the governement and devolved the authoritie to the Lord De-la-ware.

Synonyms

* (knock sharply) (l)

Derived terms

* (l)

Anagrams

* (l) ----

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

* * * ----