Trash vs Bin - What's the difference?

Bin is a synonym of trash.

As nouns the difference between trash and bin

is that trash is useless things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse while bin is a box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.

As verbs the difference between trash and bin

is that trash is to discard 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.

trash

English

Noun

(-)

(chiefly, US) Useless things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.

* Landor

A haunch of venison would be trash to a Brahmin.

A container into which things are discarded.

Something worthless or of poor quality.

(slang, derogatory) People of low social status or class.

(computing) Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.

A collar, leash, or halter used to restrain a dog in pursuing game.

(Markham)

Synonyms

* garbage (1-3), junk (1,3), refuse (1), rubbish, waste * (container) trash can * See also

Derived terms

* trailer trash * trash bag * trash can * trashed * trashery * trash fish * trashman * trashmover * trashy * white trash

Verb

(es)

(US) To discard.

* 1989 , InfoWorld (18 December 1989, page 66)

Fatcat also fails to warn you that unformatting will trash any files copied to the unintentionally formatted disk.

(US) To make into a mess.

The burglars trashed the house.

(US) To beat soundly in a game.

(US) To disrespect someone or something

To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.

to trash the rattoons of sugar cane

To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush.

To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously.

(Beaumont and Fletcher)

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* trash out

Anagrams

* *

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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