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barn1

noun bɑːnbɑrn
  • 1A large farm building used for storing grain, hay, or straw or for housing livestock.

    (用于存放谷物、干草、稻草或安顿家畜的)仓库

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This configuration recalls the form of traditional livestock barns with a center walkway and animal stalls to each side.
    • At that time it was a conventional row-crop farm with an unused barn and silos.
    • His statement about building livestock barns in swampy areas is particularly insulting.
    • The hogs are farrowed outdoors or in barns or hoop buildings with bedding.
    • Clean livestock barns have fewer fly problems.
    • Initially the birds vanished from the countryside, as farmers learnt how to farm more efficiently and tougher hygiene rules led to the sealing of barns and grain stores.
    • The study site at Badajoz consists of open farmland with pastures, cereals, and fruit plantations, and most barn swallows breed in barns and other farm buildings.
    • We remodeled part of a barn on Colin's farm into a wire-floored nursery with pull-plug flush gutters and an outside pit.
    • He talked to a group of Canadian Forces reservists, visited the livestock barns and posed for several pictures.
    • A small main house sat in front of a larger feed shed, a tool shed, and a pair of large barns emitting intermittent livestock noises.
    • The traditional farm buildings are located behind the farmhouse and include a bothy, stores, barn and livestock accommodation.
    • It is understood that she was working in a hay barn when two large straw bales fell from a stack onto her.
    • Windows were opened, livestock rustled in their barns, children's voices began to mingle with those of their parents.
    • An enclosed stone-built courtyard houses a range of farm buildings, a hay barn and a secure workshop.
    • In the US, tornadoes twisting at 300 mph sometimes sweep a path a mile wide over 50 miles, lifting and dumping trucks, barns, livestock and people.
    • He confirmed that his prior letter requesting permission for a barn and livestock was ‘inaccurate’.
    • On the way to the working farm, they marvel at the bucolic scene - rolling hills with acres of corn and soybean fields, the green pastures interspersed with barns and farm houses.
    • Instead of him hauling silage into the barn and manure out, the cows do it now, he says.
    • The livestock pens and barns held little interest for her, although she took the time to check out the horse barn, filled with stalls.
    • Also within the wall would have been a well, latrines, a chapel, workshops, barns, pens for livestock, hen houses and perhaps other outbuildings.
    Synonyms
    outbuilding, shed, outhouse, shelter
    stable, mews, stall, pound, sty, coop
    Dutch barn, byre
    British dialect linhay
    archaic grange, garner
    1. 1.1North American A large shed used for storing road or railway vehicles.
      〈北美〉(停放汽车、火车等的)大车库
      Example sentencesExamples
      • One barn featured rapid transit cars that were awaiting some restoration.
      • In the car barn we saw numbers 2002 through 6 in various stages of build.
      • The quake and resulting fire destroyed the power houses and car barns of both the Cal Cable and the URR's Powell Street lines, together with the 117 cable cars stored within them.
      • ALL Santa wants for Christmas is a new barn, shed or stable for his sleigh.
      • Build your ideal garage, coach house style car barn, workshop or storage barn with these blueprints
    2. 1.2 A large and uninviting building.
      空荡荡的大建筑
      a great barn of a pub

      一家大谷仓似的空落落的酒馆。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • London's Olympia exhibition hall is a vast barn of a place, home for everything from sporting events to antiques fairs.
      • The reference is to the enormous gray barn of a food market covering 125000 square feet on Route 1 in Norwalk.
      • They wandered up and down the same stretch of dusty white road, attended the same church and the same grog-shop, and slept in the same lime-washed barn of a barrack for two long years.
      • It was a great barn of a place with a cement floor, fibreboard partitions and windows only at the extreme river end.
      • If you're not enlightened, Savemart is this big second-hand barn of a store nestled in the industrial sprawl of northern Te Rapa.
      • I ran into the first barn of a tavern I could reach.
      • My family was able to offer practical support in the shape of hospitality in our then vast barn of a place in St Andrews.
      • The Palestra is a fantastic old barn of a basketball arena.
      • Borley Rectory, a rambling, ramshackle Victorian barn of a house, sprawled on an Essex hillside, had little to offer.
      • He had a whole room of metal-working equipment, a room full of wood-working equipment, and this huge barn of a room for electronics.
      • I will never return to this barn of a restaurant, and would frankly rather eat roaches.
      • Anyway from what I know, it'll probably be a cross between my friends barn and the show barn of a stable I used to board at.

Origin

Old English bern, berern, from bere 'barley' + ern, ærn 'house'.

  • A barn was originally a place for storing barley (Old English), the word coming from Old English from bere ‘barley’ and ern ‘house’. In the 1940s barn started to be used in particle physics as a unit of areas. It is apparently from the phrase as big as a barn door, a long established measure of size.

Rhymes

Abadan, Abidjan, adhan, Amman, Antoine, Arne, Aswan, Avon, Azerbaijan, Baltistan, Baluchistan, Bantustan, Bhutan, Dagestan, darn, dewan, Farne, guan, Hahn, Hanuman, Hindustan, Huascarán, Iban, Iran, Isfahan, Juan, Kazakhstan, khan, Koran, Kurdistan, Kurgan, Kyrgyzstan, macédoine, Mahon, maidan, Marne, Michoacán, Oman, Pakistan, pan, Pathan, Qumran, Rajasthan, Shan, Siân, Sichuan, skarn, soutane, Sudan, Tai'an, t'ai chi ch'uan, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Taklimakan, tarn, Tatarstan, Tehran, Tenochtitlán, Turkestan, Turkmenistan, tzigane, Uzbekistan, Vientiane, yarn, Yinchuan, yuan, Yucatán

barn2

(also b)
nounbɑːnbɑrn
Physics
  • A unit of area, 10⁻²⁸ square metres, used especially in particle physics.

    〔物理〕(尤用于粒子物理学)靶(恩)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The barn is typically used to measure the cross section for nuclear reactions.
    • Cross-sections are measured in barns, 10-28 m2.
    • While the barn is not an SI unit, it is accepted (although discouraged) for use with the SI.

Origin

1940s: apparently from the phrase as big as a barn door.

barn1

nounbärnbɑrn
  • 1A large farm building used for storing grain, hay, or straw or for housing livestock.

    (用于存放谷物、干草、稻草或安顿家畜的)仓库

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Windows were opened, livestock rustled in their barns, children's voices began to mingle with those of their parents.
    • Instead of him hauling silage into the barn and manure out, the cows do it now, he says.
    • It is understood that she was working in a hay barn when two large straw bales fell from a stack onto her.
    • The traditional farm buildings are located behind the farmhouse and include a bothy, stores, barn and livestock accommodation.
    • An enclosed stone-built courtyard houses a range of farm buildings, a hay barn and a secure workshop.
    • He confirmed that his prior letter requesting permission for a barn and livestock was ‘inaccurate’.
    • In the US, tornadoes twisting at 300 mph sometimes sweep a path a mile wide over 50 miles, lifting and dumping trucks, barns, livestock and people.
    • On the way to the working farm, they marvel at the bucolic scene - rolling hills with acres of corn and soybean fields, the green pastures interspersed with barns and farm houses.
    • A small main house sat in front of a larger feed shed, a tool shed, and a pair of large barns emitting intermittent livestock noises.
    • Initially the birds vanished from the countryside, as farmers learnt how to farm more efficiently and tougher hygiene rules led to the sealing of barns and grain stores.
    • The livestock pens and barns held little interest for her, although she took the time to check out the horse barn, filled with stalls.
    • This configuration recalls the form of traditional livestock barns with a center walkway and animal stalls to each side.
    • Also within the wall would have been a well, latrines, a chapel, workshops, barns, pens for livestock, hen houses and perhaps other outbuildings.
    • We remodeled part of a barn on Colin's farm into a wire-floored nursery with pull-plug flush gutters and an outside pit.
    • His statement about building livestock barns in swampy areas is particularly insulting.
    • He talked to a group of Canadian Forces reservists, visited the livestock barns and posed for several pictures.
    • Clean livestock barns have fewer fly problems.
    • The hogs are farrowed outdoors or in barns or hoop buildings with bedding.
    • The study site at Badajoz consists of open farmland with pastures, cereals, and fruit plantations, and most barn swallows breed in barns and other farm buildings.
    • At that time it was a conventional row-crop farm with an unused barn and silos.
    Synonyms
    outbuilding, shed, outhouse, shelter
    1. 1.1North American A large shed used for storing vehicles.
      〈北美〉(停放汽车、火车等的)大车库
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In the car barn we saw numbers 2002 through 6 in various stages of build.
      • ALL Santa wants for Christmas is a new barn, shed or stable for his sleigh.
      • One barn featured rapid transit cars that were awaiting some restoration.
      • Build your ideal garage, coach house style car barn, workshop or storage barn with these blueprints
      • The quake and resulting fire destroyed the power houses and car barns of both the Cal Cable and the URR's Powell Street lines, together with the 117 cable cars stored within them.
    2. 1.2 A large and unattractive building.
      空荡荡的大建筑
      moved into that barn of a house
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I ran into the first barn of a tavern I could reach.
      • The Palestra is a fantastic old barn of a basketball arena.
      • Borley Rectory, a rambling, ramshackle Victorian barn of a house, sprawled on an Essex hillside, had little to offer.
      • They wandered up and down the same stretch of dusty white road, attended the same church and the same grog-shop, and slept in the same lime-washed barn of a barrack for two long years.
      • Anyway from what I know, it'll probably be a cross between my friends barn and the show barn of a stable I used to board at.
      • It was a great barn of a place with a cement floor, fibreboard partitions and windows only at the extreme river end.
      • London's Olympia exhibition hall is a vast barn of a place, home for everything from sporting events to antiques fairs.
      • I will never return to this barn of a restaurant, and would frankly rather eat roaches.
      • He had a whole room of metal-working equipment, a room full of wood-working equipment, and this huge barn of a room for electronics.
      • If you're not enlightened, Savemart is this big second-hand barn of a store nestled in the industrial sprawl of northern Te Rapa.
      • My family was able to offer practical support in the shape of hospitality in our then vast barn of a place in St Andrews.
      • The reference is to the enormous gray barn of a food market covering 125000 square feet on Route 1 in Norwalk.

Origin

Old English bern, berern, from bere ‘barley’ + ern, ærn ‘house’.

barn2

(also b)
nounbärnbɑrn
Physics
  • A unit of area, 10⁻²⁸ square meters, used especially in particle physics.

    〔物理〕(尤用于粒子物理学)靶(恩)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Cross-sections are measured in barns, 10-28 m2.
    • The barn is typically used to measure the cross section for nuclear reactions.
    • While the barn is not an SI unit, it is accepted (although discouraged) for use with the SI.

Origin

1940s: apparently from the phrase as big as a barn door.

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