The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bin \Bin\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Binned; p. pr. & vb. n. Binning.] To put into a bin; as, to bin wine.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of bin English)
WordNet
n. a container; usually has a lid
the quantity contained in a bin [syn: binful]
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 [syn: bank identification number, ABA transit number]
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Wikipedia
Binning may refer to:
In metagenomics, binning is the process of grouping reads or contigs and assigning them to operational taxonomic units. Binning methods can be based on either compositional features or alignment (similarity), or both.
Binning is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Bob Binning (1935–2005), New Zealand fencer
- B. C. Binning (1909–1976), Canadian painter
- Hugh Binning (1627–1653), Scottish philosopher
- Jimmy Binning (born 1927), Scottish soccer player
Usage examples of "binning".
English Strickland, who had been fishing, sat on the door-stone and talked to Mother Binning, sitting within with her wheel beside her.
Mother Binning looked at the dappling water and the June trees and the bright blue sky.
English Strickland laughed and said good-by to Mother Binning and went.
The tutor began to think again of Mother Binning, and, following this, of the stepping-stones at White Farm, and Elspeth and Gilian Barrow balanced above the stream of gold.
Mother Binning had been working in the garden, but when she saw the figures on the path below she took her distaff and sat on the bench in the sun.
He spoke in a wheedling, kindly voice, for he and Mother Binning were good friends.
CHAPTER VII Upon a quiet, gray December afternoon, nine years and more from the June day when he had fished in the glen and Mother Binning had told him of her vision of the Jacobite gathering at Braemar, English Strickland, walking for exercise to the village and back, found himself overtaken by Mr.
Mother Binning was yet in her cot, though an older woman now and somewhat broken.
Jock Binning came upon his crutches from the bench by the stream where he made a fishing-net.
And there was here Jock Binning, who, for all his lameness and his crutches, could go where he wished.
Jock Binning, crutched and with an elfish face and figure and voice, had pulled down upon himself the office of revelator.
Mother Binning pushed aside the pan of water and rubbed her hand across her eyes.