different between bin vs bank

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: b?n, IPA^(key): /b?n/, /bin/
• (Canada, UK, General Australian) IPA^(key): /b?n/
• Homophone: bun (NZ), been (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b?n/

Etymology 1

From Middle English binne, from Old English binne (“crib, manger”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Gaulish benna (“four-wheeled cart; caisson”) (compare Old Irish buinne, Welsh benn (“cart”), Old Breton benn (“caisson”)).

Noun

bin (plural bins)

1. A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.

   Synonyms: container, receptacle

   • 1852-1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House

     Though a hard-grained man, close, dry, and silent, he can enjoy old wine with the best. He has a priceless bin of port in some artful cellar under the Fields, which is one of his many secrets.

2. A container for rubbish or waste.

   Synonyms: (British) dustbin, (British, Australian) rubbish bin, garbage can, (both US) trash can; see also Thesaurus:waste bin
3. (statistics) Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc

Derived terms

• binwidth

Translations

Verb

bin (third-person singular simple present bins, present participle binning, simple past and past participle binned)

1. (chiefly Britain, informal) To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.

   Synonyms: chuck, chuck away, discard, dump; see also Thesaurus:junk

   • 2008, Tom Holt, Falling Sideways, Orbit books, ?ISBN, p. 28

     He put the bank statement in the shoebox marked "Bank Statements" and binned the rest.

2. (Britain, informal) To throw away, reject, give up.
   • 2002, Christopher Harvie, Scotland: A Short History, Oxford University Press, ?ISBN, p. 59

     This splendid eloquence was promptly binned by the pope, […]

   • 2005, Ian Oliver, War and peace in the Balkans: the diplomacy of conflict in the former Yugoslavia, I.B. Tauris, ?ISBN, p. 238

     The CC [Co-ordinating Centre] had long since binned the idea of catching the regular shuttle service, […]

3. (statistics) To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
4. (transitive) To place into a bin for storage.

Translations

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Arabic ???? (bin, “son”).

Noun

bin

1. (in Arabic names) son of; equivalent to Hebrew ??? (ben).

Etymology 3

Contraction of being

Contraction

bin

1. (text messaging) Contraction of being.

Etymology 4

Contraction of been

Verb

bin

1. (obsolete, dialectal and text messaging) Alternative form of been
   • 1669, Christopher Merrett, letter to Thomas Browne

     Many of the lupus piscis I have seen, and have bin informed by the king's fishmonger they are taken on our coast […]

Etymology 5

Clipping of binary.

Noun

bin (uncountable)

1. (computing, informal) Clipping of binary.

Anagrams

• BNI, NBI, NIB, ibn, nib

Biak

Noun

bin

1. woman
   • [1]: FAFYAR BEKUR KORBEN MA BIN YOMGA : "THE STORY ABOUT DRAGON AND THE YOMGA WOMAN"

     Korben ine fyair bin berande ido bebaraprapen ro yaf narewara bo bebur mumra si. : This dragon usually watched the women who usually went landward and roasted (food) along the gardens and went home seaward.

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin bene. Compare Romanian bine, Italian bene, Spanish bien, French bien.

Adverb

bin

1. well

Noun

bin

1. good

Egyptian

Romanization

bin

1. Manuel de Codage transliteration of bjn.

French

Adverb

bin

1. Alternative spelling of bien

German

Etymology

From Middle High German, from Old High German bim (“am”), from Proto-Germanic *biumi (first-person singular present active indicative of Proto-Germanic *beun? (“to be”)), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ew- (“to be, become, appear”). Cognate with Dutch ben (“am”), Old English b?om (“am”). More at be.

German bin and Dutch ben have two sources:

• a form based on Proto-Indo-European *h?ésmi (“am”) like English am, Old Norse em
• an initial b- that was added to the word under influence of verb forms based on Proto-Germanic *beun? (as in Old English beon)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?n/

Verb

bin

1. first-person singular present of sein

References

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese vir. Cognate with Kabuverdianu ben.

Verb

bin

1. to come

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay bin, from Classical Malay bin, from Arabic ???? (bin, “son”).

Noun

bin (first-person possessive binku, second-person possessive binmu, third-person possessive binnya)

1. son (of)

Japanese

Romanization

bin

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Mandarin

Romanization

bin

1. Nonstandard spelling of b?n.
2. Nonstandard spelling of b?n.
3. Nonstandard spelling of bìn.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian binda, which derives from Proto-Germanic *bindan?.

Verb

bin

1. (Heligoland) to bind

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *b?ud?nás. Related to Ossetian ??? (byn), Persian ??? (bon).

Noun

bin ?

1. bottom

Preposition

bin

1. under

Papiamentu

Alternative forms

• bini (synonym)

Etymology

From Spanish venir and Kabuverdianu ben.

Verb

bin

1. to come

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ???? (bin, “son”).

Pronunciation

Noun

bin (n class, plural bin)

1. son of

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i?n

Noun

bin

1. indefinite plural of bi

Taivoan

Noun

bin

1. brother

Tok Pisin

Etymology 1

From English been.

Particle

bin

1. Marks the simple past tense.

See also

Tok Pisin tense markers:

• pinis (past perfect tense)
• bin (simple past tense)
• stap (progressive tense)
• bai/baimbai (future tense)

Etymology 2

From English bean.

Noun

bin

1. bean, beans

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bin/

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (bi?, “thousand”), from Proto-Turkic *bï? (“thousand”). Cognate with Old Turkic ????????????? (b¹i? /bï?/), ????????????? (b²i? /bi?/), Old Uyghur mynk (mï?, “thousand”), Bashkir ??? (meñ, “thousand”) and Mongolian ?????? (myangan, “thousand”) a Turkic borrowing.

Noun

bin (definite accusative bini, plural binler)

1. thousand

Declension

Etymology 2

Verb

bin

1. second-person singular imperative of binmek

Welsh

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English bin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?n/

Noun

bin m (plural biniau or bins)

1. bin, trashcan

Mutation

Etymology 2

Mutated form of pin (“pine trees”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi?n/

Noun

bin

1. Soft mutation of pin (“pine trees”).

Mutation

Zazaki

Etymology

Related to Northern Kurdish bin.

Noun

bin ?

1. bottom

Zoogocho Zapotec

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vena, from Latin v?na.

Noun

bin

1. vein

References

• Long C., Rebecca; Cruz M., Sofronio (2000) Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 38)?^[2] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 16

English

Alternative forms

• banck, bancke, banke (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæ?k/
• Rhymes: -æ?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English banke, from Middle French banque, from Old Italian banca (“counter, moneychanger's bench or table”), from Lombardic bank (“bench, counter”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench, counter”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?eg- (“to turn, curve, bend, bow”). Doublet of bench.

Noun

bank (countable and uncountable, plural banks)

1. (countable) An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
2. (countable) A branch office of such an institution.
3. (countable) An underwriter or controller of a card game.

   Synonyms: banker, banque

4. (countable) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
   • a. 1626, Francis Bacon, Of Usury

     Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be master of his own money.

5. (gambling, countable) The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
6. (slang, uncountable) Money; profit.
7. (countable) In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
8. (countable, chiefly in combination) A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.

9. (countable) A device used to store coins or currency.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Bislama: bang

Borrowings

Some may be via other European languages.

Translations

Verb

bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)

1. (intransitive) To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.

2. (transitive) To put into a bank.

3. (transitive, slang) To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.

Derived terms

• bankable
• banked
• banker
• banking
• bank on

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English bank, from Old English h?banca (“couch”) and Old English banc (“bank, hillock, embankment”), from Proto-Germanic *bankô. Akin to Old Norse bakki (“elevation, hill”), Norwegian bakke (“slope, hill”).

Noun

bank (plural banks)

2. (hydrology) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
   • 2014, Ian Jack, "Is this the end of Britishness", The Guardian, 16 September 2014:

     Just upstream of Dryburgh Abbey, a reproduction of a classical Greek temple stands at the top of a wooded hillock on the river’s north bank.

3. (nautical, hydrology) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth (for example, a sandbank or mudbank).

   the banks of Newfoundland

4. (geography) A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
5. (aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
6. (rail transport) An incline, a hill.
7. A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.

   The bank of clouds on the horizon announced the arrival of the predicted storm front.

8. (mining) The face of the coal at which miners are working.
9. (mining) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
10. (mining) The ground at the top of a shaft.

    Ores are brought to bank.

Derived terms

Related terms

• bench

Translations

Verb

bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)

1. (intransitive, aviation) To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
3. (transitive) To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
4. (transitive) To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.

5. (transitive) To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
6. (transitive) To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.

   • Aristoma?chus would haue them to be stript from their leaues in winter, & in any hand to be banked well about, that the water stand not there in any hollow furrow or hole lower than the other ground

7. (transitive, obsolete) To pass by the banks of.
8. (rail transport, Britain) To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.

Derived terms

• bank-and-turn indicator, turn-and-bank indicator

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English bank (“bank”), banke, from Old French banc (“bench”), from Frankish *bank. Akin to Old English benc (“bench”).

Noun

bank (plural banks)

1. A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
2. A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
3. (computing) A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap.
4. (pinball) A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.

Synonyms

• (row or panel of items): (row) line, rank, tier; (panel) block, grid, panel

Derived terms

• double-bank
• filter bank, filterbank
• optical bank
• phone bank

Translations

Verb

bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)

1. (transitive, order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.

Etymology 4

Probably from French banc. Of Germanic origin, and akin to English bench.

Noun

bank (plural banks)

1. A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
   • 1658, Edmund Waller, he Passion of Dido for Æneas

     Placed on their banks, the lusty Trojans sweep / Neptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep.

2. A bench or seat for judges in court.
3. The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Burrill to this entry?)

4. (archaic, printing) A kind of table used by printers.
5. (music) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

6. (uncountable) slang for money

Derived terms

• Bank Royal
• Common Bank

Related terms

• banc
• banquette
• frank bank

References

• “bank”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• Knab, knab, nabk

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?k/

Etymology 1

From Dutch bank, from Middle Dutch banc, from Old Dutch *bank, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

Noun

bank (plural banke, diminutive bankie)

1. bench, couch

Derived terms

• onder stoele of banke wegsteek
• toonbank

Etymology 2

From Dutch bank, from Middle Dutch banc, from Italian banco, from Old High German bank, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

Noun

bank (plural banke, diminutive bankie)

1. bank (financial institution)
2. (games, gambling) bank, a player who controls a deposit in some card games or board games and in gambling

Verb

bank (present bank, present participle bankende, past participle gebank)

1. (transitive) to deposit, to bank
2. (intransitive) to bank

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Ultimately from French banque.

Noun

bank (definite accusative bank?, plural banklar)

1. bank (financial institution)

Declension

Further reading

• “bank” in Obastan.com.

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Borrowed from French banque

Noun

bank

1. bank (financial institution)

Declension

Danish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French banque, from Italian banco (“bench”).

Noun

bank c (singular definite banken, plural indefinite banker)

1. bank (financial institution, branch office, controller of a game, a safe and guaranteed place of storage)

Declension

Derived terms

• bankanvisning
• bankier
• bankør

Descendants

• ? Faroese: banki
• ? Greenlandic: banki
• ? Icelandic: banki

Etymology 2

From German Bank (“bench”).

Noun

bank c

1. only used in certain expressions

Derived terms

• over en bank

Noun

bank n (singular definite banket, plural indefinite bank)

1. knock (an abrupt rapping sound)
2. (pl) a beating

Declension

Synonyms

• (beating): tæsk, tæv

Verb

bank

1. imperative of banke

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??k/
• Hyphenation: bank
• Rhymes: -??k

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch banc, from Old Dutch *bank, from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

Noun

bank f (plural banken, diminutive bankje n)

1. bench
2. (Netherlands) couch, sofa

   Synonym: sofa

3. place where seashells are found
4. shallow part of the sea near the coast

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: bank
• ? Sranan Tongo: bangi
  • ? Aukan: bangi
  • ? Caribbean Hindustani: bángi
  • ? Saramaccan: bángi

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch banc, from Italian banco, from Old High German bank, from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz, related to Etymology 1 above.

Noun

bank f (plural banken, diminutive bankje n)

1. A bank (financial institution)
2. (games, gambling) The bank, a player who controls a deposit in some card games or board games and in gambling
3. A banknote, especially 100 Dutch guilders (also in the diminutives bankie or bankje.)
4. A bank, collection and/or repository.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: bank
• ? Aukan: banku
• ? Caribbean Hindustani: bánk
• ? Malay: bank
  • Indonesian: bank
  • ? Central Dusun: bank
  • ? Central Melanau: bank
  • ? Makasar: bank
  • ? Javanese: bang
  • ? Sundanese: bank
• ? Saramaccan: bánku
• ? Sranan Tongo: bangi
• ? West Frisian: bank
• ? Dutch: bankje, bankie (diminutive)
  • ? Sranan Tongo: barki
    • ? Dutch: barkie

Hungarian

Etymology

From German Bank, from Italian banca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b??k]
• Rhymes: -??k

Noun

bank (plural bankok)

1. bank (financial institution)

   Synonym: pénzintézet

2. (gambling) bank (the sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses)

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• bank in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• bank in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2021)

Icelandic

Etymology

Back-formation from banka (“to knock, to beat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pau??k/
• Rhymes: -au??k

Noun

bank n (genitive singular banks, no plural)

1. knock, blow

Declension

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch bank (“bank”), from Middle Dutch banc, from Italian banco, from Old High German bank, from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz. Doublet of bangku.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?/
• Hyphenation: bank
• Homophone: bang

Noun

bank

1. bank:
   1. an institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
   2. a safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.

Derived terms

• perbankan

Compounds

Further reading

• “bank” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Maltese

Etymology

From French banque

Pronunciation

Noun

bank m (plural banek)

1. bank

Noun

bank m (plural bankijiet)

1. bench

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English h?banca (“couch”) and Old English banc (“bank, hillock, embankment”), from Proto-Germanic *bankô. Akin to Old Norse bakki (“elevation, hill”), Norwegian bakke (“slope, hill”).

Noun

bank (plural banks)

1. the bank of a river or lake

Descendants

• English: bank

References

• “bank(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??k/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French banque, from Italian banco (“bench”), banca

Noun

bank m (definite singular banken, indefinite plural banker, definite plural bankene)

1. a bank (financial institution)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From the verb banke

Noun

bank m (definite singular banken, indefinite plural banker, definite plural bankene)

1. a beat, knock, throb

Derived terms

• hjertebank

Etymology 3

Verb

bank

1. imperative of banke

References

• “bank” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “bank_4” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “bank_5” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from French banque, from Italian banco (“bench”), banca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??k/

Noun

bank m (definite singular banken, indefinite plural bankar, definite plural bankane)

1. a bank (financial institution)

Derived terms

References

• “bank” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old High German

Alternative forms

• panch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *banki.

Noun

bank f

1. bench

Descendants

• Middle High German: banc, bank
  • German: Bank
    • ? Danish: bank
    • ? Norwegian Bokmål: bank
  • Luxembourgish: Bänk
  • Pennsylvania German: Bank
• ? Old French: banc
  • French: banc (see there for further descendants)
  • Norman: banc
  • ? Middle English: bank, banke
    • English: bank
  • ? Galician: banco
  • ? Spanish: banco (see there for further descendants)
• ? Old Italian: banco, banca
  • Italian: banco, banca (see there for further descendants)
    • ? Italian: banchetto (see there for further descendants)
  • ? Byzantine Greek: ?????? (pánkos)
    • Greek: ?????? (págkos)
  • ? Middle French: banque (see there for further descendants)
  • ? German: Bank (see there for further descendants)
• ? Medieval Latin: bancus, banca

Polish

Etymology

From Italian banco via German Bank.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?k/

Noun

bank m inan

1. bank

Declension

Derived terms

• bankowy
• bankowo??
• bankier

Descendants

• ? Belarusian: bank (bank)
• ? Ukrainian: ???? (bank)

References

Further reading

• bank in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Slovene

Noun

bánk

1. inflection of bánka:
   1. genitive dual
   2. genitive plural

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ba??k/

Etymology

From Dutch bank, German Bank or Low German bank, all from Italian banco, from Old High German banc, from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

Noun

bank c

1. a bank (financial institution, branch of such an institution)
2. a bank (place of storage)
3. a bank (of a river of lake)
4. a sandbank

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Elfdalian: baunka
• ? Finnish: pankki

References

• bank in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French banc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??k/
• Hyphenation: bank

Noun

bank (definite accusative bank?, plural banklar)

1. bench (long seat)

Declension

Volapük

Noun

bank (nominative plural banks)

1. bank (financial institution)

Declension