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Difference Between Bin and Tray

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Bin

A container or enclosed space for storage.

Tray

A tray is a shallow platform designed for the carrying of items. It can be fashioned from numerous materials, including silver, brass, sheet iron, paperboard, wood, melamine, and molded pulp.

Bin

To place or store in a bin.

Tray

A flat, shallow container with a raised rim, typically used for carrying food and drink, or for holding small items or loose material
Seed trays
A baking tray
They ate supper off a tray in front of the fire

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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Tray

A shallow flat receptacle with a raised edge or rim, used for carrying, holding, or displaying articles.

Bin

A container for rubbish or waste.
A rubbish bin
A wastepaper bin
An ashes bin

Tray

A shallow flat receptacle with its contents
Took the patient a dinner tray.

Bin

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

Tray

A small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried.
I carefully arranged the dishes on the tray and brought it upstairs.
Make sure that tray of eggs is properly loaded.
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Bin

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

Tray

(by extension) The items on a full tray.
Before long they had consumed a whole tray of shrimp cocktails and sent for another.

Bin

Jail or prison.

Tray

A component of a device into which an item is placed for use in the device's operations.
The CD tray will not open.
The loader is responsible for placing the work on the trays for the plating machines.
Baking tray

Bin

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

Tray

A notification area used for icons and alerts.

Bin

(computing) binary

Tray

A type of retail or wholesale packaging for CPUs where the processors are sold in bulk and/or with minimal packaging.

Bin

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

Tray

(Australia) The platform of a truck that supports the load to be hauled.

Bin

To throw away, reject, give up.

Tray

(obsolete) trouble; annoyance; anger

Bin

(statistics) To convert continuous data into discrete groups.

Tray

A gay trans person, particularly a man (a man who is both transgender and gay)

Bin

(transitive) To place into a bin for storage.
To bin wine

Tray

(transitive) to place (items) on a tray
Be sure to tray eggs with the large end up.

Bin

Alternative form of been

Tray

(intransitive) to slide down a snow-covered hill on a tray from a cafeteria.
Traying has provided collegiate fun and the occasional fatality for decades.

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.

Tray

To grieve; to annoy

Bin

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

Tray

To betray

Bin

An old form of Be and Been.

Tray

To betray; to deceive.

Bin

A container; usually has a lid

Tray

A small trough or wooden vessel, sometimes scooped out of a block of wood, for various domestic uses, as in making bread, chopping meat, etc.

Bin

The quantity contained in a bin

Tray

A flat, broad vessel on which dishes, glasses, etc., are carried; a waiter; a salver.

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

Tray

A shallow box, generally without a top, often used within a chest, trunk, box, etc., as a removable receptacle for small or light articles.

Bin

Store in bins

Tray

An open receptacle for holding or displaying or serving articles or food

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