Bin vs. Dump — What's the Difference?

A container or enclosed space for storage.

To release or throw down in a large mass.

To place or store in a bin.

To empty (material) out of a container or vehicle

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

To empty out (a container or vehicle), as by overturning or tilting.

A container for rubbish or waste.

To get rid of; discard

(statistics) Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc

(Informal) To discard or reject unceremoniously

Any of the fixed-size chunks into which airspace is divided for the purposes of radar.

To place (goods or stock, for example) on the market in large quantities and at a low price.

Jail or prison.

(Computers) To transfer (data stored internally in a computer) from one place to another, as from a memory to a printout, without processing.

(in Arabic names) son of; equivalent to Hebrew tr=ben.

(Slang) To knock down; beat.

(computing) binary

To fall or drop abruptly.

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

To discharge cargo or contents; unload.

To throw away, reject, give up.

(Slang) To criticize another severely

(statistics) To convert continuous data into discrete groups.

A place where refuse is dumped

(transitive) To place into a bin for storage.

A storage place for goods or supplies; a depot

Alternative form of been

An unordered accumulation; a pile.

A box, frame, crib, or inclosed place, used as a receptacle for any commodity; as, a corn bin; a wine bin; a coal bin.

(Computers) An instance or the result of dumping stored data.

To put into a bin; as, to bin wine.

(Slang) A poorly maintained or disreputable place.

An old form of Be and Been.

Vulgar Slang An act of defecating. Often used with take.

A container; usually has a lid

A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.

The quantity contained in a bin

A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.

An identification number consisting of a two-part code assigned to banks and savings associations; the first part shows the location and the second identifies the bank itself

That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.

Store in bins

(computing) An act of dumping, or its result.

(computing) A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.

A storage place for supplies, especially military.

(slang) An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place.

An act of defecation; a defecating.

A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency.

Absence of mind; reverie.

(mining) A pile of ore or rock.

(obsolete) A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.

(obsolete) An old kind of dance.

A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).

(marketing) A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.

A thick, ill-shapen piece.

A lead counter used in the game of chuck-farthing.

(Northern England) A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.

(transitive) To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.

(transitive) To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants.

(transitive) To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.

To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.

To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.

To end a romantic relationship with.

To knock heavily; to stump.

(transitive) To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it

To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.

Of a surf wave, to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards.

A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.

A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits or a mild depression; despondency; ill humor; - now used only in the plural.

Absence of mind; revery.

A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.

An old kind of dance.

A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.

A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.

That which is dumped.

A pile of ore or rock.

A coarse term for defecation.

To knock heavily; to stump.

To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it; as, to dump sand, coal, etc.

A coarse term for defecation;

A piece of land where waste materials are dumped

(computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs

Throw away as refuse;

Sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly;

Sell at artificially low prices

Drop in a heap or mass

Fall abruptly;

Knock down with force;