different between duck vs bin

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?k, IPA^(key): /d?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English *dukken, from Old English *ducan, *duccan (“to duck”). Related to Scots dulk (“to duck”), Middle Dutch ducken (“to duck”), Low German ducken (“to duck”), German ducken (“to duck”), Danish dukke, dykke (“to dive”); a secondary verb akin to Middle English duken, douken (“to duck, plunge under water, submerge”), from Old English *d?can (“to dip, dive, duck”), from Proto-Germanic *d?kan? (“to dip, dive, bend down, stoop, duck”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *d?ewb- (“deep, hollow”) (whence Proto-Germanic *d?ban? (“to dive”)). Related also to Scots dook, douk (“to bathe, drench, soak, baptise”), West Frisian dûke (“to plunge, dive”), Dutch duiken (“to dive, plunge, duck”), Low German duken (“to duck, dive, stoop”), German tauchen (“to dive, plunge, immerse, duck”), Swedish dyka (“to dive, submerge”).

Verb

duck (third-person singular simple present ducks, present participle ducking, simple past and past participle ducked)

1. (intransitive) To quickly lower the head or body in order to prevent it from being struck by something.

2. (transitive) To quickly lower (the head) in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
   • c. 1729, Jonathan Swift, To Dr. Delany on the Libels Written Against Him

     As some raw youth in country bred,
     To arms by thirst of honour led,
     When at a skirmish first he hears
     The bullets whistling round his ears,
     Will duck his head aside

3. (transitive) To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
   • 1742, Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews

     Adams, after ducking the squire twice or thrice, leaped out of the tub.

4. (intransitive) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.

   • In Tiber ducking thrice by break of day.

5. (intransitive) To bow.
   • c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens

     The learned pate / Ducks to the golden fool.

6. (transitive) To evade doing something.
7. (transitive) To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
8. (intransitive) To enter a place for a short moment.

Synonyms

• (to lower the head): duck down
• (to lower into the water): dip, dunk
• (to lower in order to prevent it from being struck by something): dip

Coordinate terms

• (to lower the head or body to prevent it from being struck): hit the deck

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English doke, ducke, dukke, dokke, douke, duke, from Old English duce, d?ce (“duck”, literally “dipper, diver, ducker”), from Old English *d?can (“to dip, dive, duck”), from Proto-Germanic *d?kan? (“to dive, bend down”). See verb above. Cognate with Scots duik, duke, dook (“duck”), Danish dukand, dykand (“sea-duck”), Swedish dykfågel (“a diver, diving bird, plungeon”), Middle Dutch duycker (“diver”), Low German düker (“diver”).

Alternative forms

• ducke (obsolete)

Noun

duck (countable and uncountable, plural ducks)

1. An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
2. Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.
3. (uncountable) The flesh of a duck used as food.
4. (cricket) A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (short for duck's egg, since the digit "0" is round like an egg.)
5. (slang) A playing card with the rank of two.
6. A partly-flooded cave passage with limited air space.
7. A building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related.

   A luncheonette in the shape of a coffee cup is particularly conspicuous, as is intended of an architectural duck or folly.

   • 2007, Cynthia Blair, "It Happened on Long Island: 1988—Suffolk County Adopts the Big Duck," Newsday, 21 Feb.:

     The Big Duck has influenced the world of architecture; any building that is shaped like its product is called a ‘duck’.

8. A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.
9. (US) A cairn used to mark a trail.
10. One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve.
11. (finance, slang, dated) Synonym of lame duck (“one who cannot fulfil their contracts”)
12. (medicine) A long-necked medical urinal for men.

Hyponyms

• (bird): Anas platyrhynchos (domesticus), Mallard-derived domestic breeds, including Pekin, Rouen, Campbell, Call, Runner; Cairina moschata, Muscovy duck

Derived terms

Translations

See also

References

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ?ISBN

Etymology 3

From Dutch doek, from Middle Dutch doeck, doec (“linen cloth”), from Old Dutch *d?c, from Proto-West Germanic *d?k, from Proto-Germanic *d?kaz (“cloth, rag”), from Proto-Indo-European *dw?g-, *dw?k-. Cognate with German Tuch (“cloth”), Swedish duk (“cloth, canvas”), Icelandic dúkur (“cloth, fabric”). Doublet of doek.

Alternative forms

• dook, doock (Scotland)

Noun

duck (plural ducks)

2. A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth.
   • 1912, Katherine Mansfield, "The Woman At The Store", from Selected Short Stories:

     He was dressed in a Jaeger vest—a pair of blue duck trousers, fastened round the waist with a plaited leather belt.

3. (in the plural) Trousers made of such material.
   • 1918, Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier, Virago 2014, page 56:

     And they would go up and find old Allington, in white ducks, standing in the fringe of long grasses and cow-parsley on the other edge of the island […].

   • 1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial 1995, p. 74:

     A native servant emerged, anonymous in his white ducks and red fez, to say My Player was wanted on the telephone.

Derived terms

• duck tape

Translations

Etymology 4

Potteries dialect, Black Country dialect and dialects of the former territory of Mercia (central England). Compare Danish dukke (“doll”), Swedish docka (“baby; doll”), dialectal English doxy (“sweetheart”).

Noun

duck (plural ducks)

1. A term of endearment; pet; darling.

   And hold-fast is the only dog, my duck (William Shakespeare - The Life of King Henry the Fifth, Act 2, Scene 3).

2. (Midlands) Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).

   Ay up duck, ow'a'tha?

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:friend

Derived terms

• ay up me duck
• duckie

References

• duck at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Birks, Steve (2005-01-26) , “The history of the Potteries dialect”, in BBC?^[2], retrieved 2014-11-19

German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?k

Verb

duck

1. singular imperative of ducken

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