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barn
(mass) | barn
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barn
(encz) | barn,stodola |
Barn
(gcide) | Barn \Barn\ (b[aum]rn), n. [OE. bern, AS. berern, bern; bere
barley + ern, [ae]rn, a close place. [root]92. See Barley.]
A covered building used chiefly for storing grain, hay, and
other productions of a farm. In the United States a part of
the barn is often used for stables.
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Barn owl (Zool.), an owl of Europe and America ({Aluco
flammeus}, or Strix flammea), which frequents barns and
other buildings.
Barn swallow (Zool.), the common American swallow ({Hirundo
horreorum}), which attaches its nest of mud to the beams
and rafters of barns.
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Barn
(gcide) | Barn \Barn\, v. t.
To lay up in a barn. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Men . . . often barn up the chaff, and burn up the
grain. --Fuller.
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Barn
(gcide) | Barn \Barn\, n.
A child. See Bairn. [Obs.]
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barn
(wn) | barn
n 1: an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed
and housing farm animals
2: (physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective
circular area that one particle presents to another as a
target for an encounter [syn: barn, b] |
barn
(jargon) | barn
n.
[uncommon; prob. from the nuclear military] An unexpectedly large quantity
of something: a unit of measurement. “Why is /var/adm taking up so much
space?” “The logs have grown to several barns.” The source of this is
clear: when physicists were first studying nuclear interactions, the
probability was thought to be proportional to the cross-sectional area of
the nucleus (this probability is still called the cross-section). Upon
experimenting, they discovered the interactions were far more probable than
expected; the nuclei were “as big as a barn”. The units for cross-sections
were christened Barns, (10^-24 cm^2) and the book containing cross-sections
has a picture of a barn on the cover.
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BARN
(bouvier) | BARN, estates. A building on a farm used to receive the crop, the stabling
of animals, and other purposes.
2. The grant or demise of a barn, without words superadded to extend
its meaning, would pass no more than the barn itself, and as much land as
would be necessary for its complete enjoyment. 4 Serg. & Rawle, 342.
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barn
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