Bin vs. Receptacle — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Bin and Receptacle
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Bin
A container or enclosed space for storage.
Receptacle
A container that holds items or matter.
Bin
To place or store in a bin.
Receptacle
(Botany) The expanded tip of a flower stalk or axis that bears the floral parts or the florets of the flower head.
Bin
A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
A corn bin
A wine bin
A coal bin
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Receptacle
(Electronics) A fitting connected to a power supply and equipped to receive a plug.
Bin
A container for rubbish or waste.
A rubbish bin
A wastepaper bin
An ashes bin
Receptacle
A container.
Bin
(statistics) Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc
Receptacle
(botany) The part of the flower stalk (peduncle or pedicel) to which the floral parts are attached; a thalamus, a torus.
Bin
Any of the fixed-size chunks into which airspace is divided for the purposes of radar.
Receptacle
In the Asteraceae (aster or sunflower family), the end of the peduncle to which all of the florets of the flower head are attached.
Bin
Jail or prison.
Receptacle
(phycology) A structure at the end of a branch of an alga containing conceptacles (reproductive organs).
Bin
(in Arabic names) son of; equivalent to Hebrew tr=ben.
Receptacle
(zoology) An organ that receives and holds a secretion.
Bin
(computing) binary
Receptacle
A contact device installed at an outlet for the connection of an attachment plug (typically by receiving the plug's prongs) to supply portable appliances or equipment.
Bin
To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.
Receptacle
That which serves, or is used, for receiving and containing something, as for examople, a basket, a vase, a bag, a reservoir; a repository.
O sacred receptacle of my joys!
Bin
To throw away, reject, give up.
Receptacle
The apex of the flower stalk, from which the organs of the flower grow, or into which they are inserted. See Illust. of Flower, and Ovary.
Bin
(statistics) To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
Receptacle
A container that is used to put or keep things in
Bin
(transitive) To place into a bin for storage.
To bin wine
Receptacle
Enlarged tip of a stem that bears the floral parts
Bin
Alternative form of been
Receptacle
An electrical (or electronic) fitting that is connected to a source of power and equipped to receive an insert
Bin
A box, frame, crib, or inclosed place, used as a receptacle for any commodity; as, a corn bin; a wine bin; a coal bin.
Bin
To put into a bin; as, to bin wine.
Bin
An old form of Be and Been.
Bin
A container; usually has a lid
Bin
The quantity contained in a bin
Bin
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
Bin
Store in bins
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