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barn
(bärn)n.
1. A large building for sheltering livestock, storing hay or other agricultural products, or housing equipment used for operating a farm.
2. A large shed for the housing of vehicles, such as railroad cars.
3. A particularly large, typically bare building: lived in a barn of a country house.
4. Abbr. b Physics A unit of area equal to 10-24 square centimeters, used to measure cross sections in nuclear physics.
[Middle English bern, from Old English berærn : bere, barley; see bhares- in Indo-European roots + ærn, house.]
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barn
(bɑːn)n
1. (Agriculture) a large farm outbuilding, used chiefly for storing hay, grain, etc, but also for housing livestock
2. (Railways) US and Canadian a large shed for sheltering railroad cars, trucks, etc
3. any large building, esp an unattractive one
4. (Agriculture) (modifier) relating to a system of poultry farming in which birds are allowed to move freely within a barn: barn eggs.
[Old English beren, from bere barley + ærn room; see barley1]
barn
(bɑːn)n
(Units) a unit of nuclear cross section equal to 10–28 square metre. Symbol: b
[C20: from barn1; so called because of the relatively large cross section]
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barn1
(bɑrn)n.
1. a building for storing hay, grain, etc., and often for housing livestock.
2. a very large garage for buses, trucks, etc.; carbarn.
v.t. 3. to store (hay, grain, etc.) in a barn.
[before 950; Middle English bern, Old English berern=bere (see barley) + ern, ǣrn house, c. Old Frisian fīaern cowhouse, Old Norse rann, Gothic razn house; compare ransack]
barn′like`, adj.
barn2
(bɑrn)n.
a unit of area equal to 10-24 square centimeter, used in measuring cross sections of atomic nuclei.
[1945–50; allegedly a facetious allusion to the phrase “as big as a barn”]
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Noun | 1. | barn - an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals farm building - a building on a farm tithe barn - barn originally built to hold tithes paid in kind and common in England |
2. | barn - (physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter atomic physics, nuclear physics, nucleonics - the branch of physics that studies the internal structure of atomic nuclei area unit, square measure - a system of units used to measure areas |
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barn
noun grainstore, store, shed, grange, outbuilding She's down at the barn.
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Translations
الهُري: مَخْزَن حُبوبهُرْي
stodola
ladestald
lato
ambar
csûrcsűristállópajta
hlaðahlaîalåve
納屋
헛간
daržinėklėtisūkinis pastatas
klētsšķūnis
stodola
hlevskedenjštala
ladugård
โรงนา
samanlıkçiftlik ambarı
kho thóc
barn
[bɑːn]Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
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barn
n
barn
:barn owl
n → Schleiereule f
barnstormer
barnstorming
adj (Brit) performance → hinreißend
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barn
(baːn) noun a building in which grain, hay etc are stored. The farmer keeps his tractor in the barn.
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barn
→ هُرْي stodola lade Scheune αχυρώνας granero lato grange ambar granaio 納屋 헛간 schuur låve stodoła celeiro амбар ladugård โรงนา samanlık kho thóc 谷仓Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009