bin

«bin» in Mova's judaism dictionary: A container for rubbish (UK, Australia, NZ: bin, rubbish… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a bin, bins); verb (bin, bins, binned, binning — informal UK: to throw away)

meaning for a pupil

1) A container for rubbish (UK, Australia, NZ: bin, rubbish bin, wheelie bin; US: trash can, garbage can). tree →

2) A container for storing things: a bread bin, a storage bin. tree →

3) Verb (informal UK): to throw something away. tree →

4) In some storybook speech, bin is written for been, as in "I bin doin' it." tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life and the environment: put litter in the bin; sort rubbish into recycling bins (paper, plastic, glass, food waste); bin day when the rubbish is collected. In safety: don't climb into bins or skips; broken glass goes in the bin carefully wrapped. In hygiene: wash hands after taking out the bin. Phrases: put it in the bin, recycling bin, wheelie bin, bin bag, bin day, litter bin, pedal bin.

examples

• Put your wrapper in the bin. tree →
• Plastic bottles go in the recycling bin. tree →
• It's bin day, so put the wheelie bin out. tree →
• The bin is full — can you empty it? tree →
• We keep the bread in a bread bin. tree →
• In America a bin is often called a trash can. tree →
• Wash your hands after taking out the bin. tree →
• I binned my old drawings. tree →

note

Countable: bins. Words for it change by country: bin (UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ), trash can or garbage can (US, Canada). Verb: binned (double n).

In the corpora

• It fixes roads, empties bins, runs parks and libraries, and decides on planning: whether people may build big extensions.
• The council is the local government that looks after roads, parks, bins, libraries and planning, run by elected councillors.
• Councils have recycling rules about which bin takes plastic, paper, glass or food, and the rules differ from place to place.
• If the wrong things go in a recycling bin, a whole load can be spoiled.
• Picture a city garden at midnight: a fox trots past the bins and somewhere a rabbit freezes, then zigzags away.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «bin» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.