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Yin vs Bin - What's the difference?

yin | bin |

As nouns the difference between yin and bin

is that yin is a principle in Chinese and related East Asian philosophies associated with dark, cool, female, etc. elements of the natural world while bin is a box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.

As a numeral yin

is the number one, primarily used in Scotland and Ulster.

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.

yin

English

Etymology 1

From early romanizations of Chinese , originally used in reference to shaded areas, as of a mountain or home. (yin)

Noun

(-)
  • (label) A principle in Chinese and related East Asian philosophies associated with dark, cool, female, elements of the natural world.
    • Related terms
    * (complement) yang * (unity) yin-yang

    Etymology 2

    From , (m) and (m).

    Numeral

    (head)
  • The number one, primarily used in Scotland and Ulster
    • English cardinal numbers ----

    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

    * * * ----