Barn

Word BARN
Character 4
Hyphenation barn
Pronunciations [baːn]

Definitions and meanings of "Barn"

What do we mean by barn?

A large farm building used for storing farm products and sheltering livestock. noun

A large shed for the housing of vehicles, such as railroad cars. noun

A particularly large, typically bare building. noun

A unit of area equal to 10−24 square centimeters, used to measure cross sections in nuclear physics. noun

To store up in a barn.

A child. noun

To lay up in a barn. transitive verb

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. noun

An owl of Europe and America (Aluco flammeus, or Strix flammea), which frequents barns and other buildings. noun

The common American swallow (Hirundo horreorum), which attaches its nest of mud to the beams and rafters of barns. noun

A child. See bairn. noun

A child. noun

A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle. noun

A unit of surface area equal to 10-28 square metres. noun

An arena. noun

An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals noun

(physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter noun

A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.

A unit of surface area equal to 10−28 square metres.

An arena.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Barn

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The word "barn" in example sentences

*pondurs combynin teh dairee barn an teh nawtee barn* ❋ Unknown (2010)

If you've lived in the West very long, you may be familiar with the term barn dance, but I'll bet you've never heard of this one - a riding demonstration, art show and sale, silent auction, live entertainment and a dinner / dance held in an indoor arena, all during the same evening. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And the work inside the barn is about bending the limitations of wood. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The idea of a poor family denied any kind of welfare and having to give birth in a barn is appealing to a bleeding-heart lefty like me. ❋ Lili (2008)

They are piled floor-to-ceiling in storage rooms, and fill up what he calls a "barn," though the structure was erected not for livestock and hay bales but for broken pinball games. ❋ Matthew Shechmeister (2011)

And I believe it's going to be what you call a barn-burner.

The barn is in working condition and is used by Brookrest Sod Farm of Marlboro for storage and to house various farming supplies, Fritz said. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The separate 15,000-square-foo t "sports barn" is a faithful reproduction of Assembly Hall, the basketball arena at Indiana University where the Hoosiers play. ❋ Erik Holm (2010)

My barn is a great shelter for the horses but not insulated and therefore it does not protect all of those horse products that I may need over the winter. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Set in an idyllic landscape that includes second-growth forest, pasture land and even a retired orchard, this converted dairy barn is sure to charm its inhabitants with its rustic character without robbing them of the conveniences of contemporary living. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Across the farmyard from his family's kitchen, inside an old barn, is the tiny workshop where James Swift and his two butchers are turning the finest free-range, rare breed Welsh pigs into the finest free-range, rare-breed charcuterie: sausages, salamis, saucisson, prosciutto, chorizo … the list goes on. ❋ Carole Cadwalladr (2010)

Just because they didn't keep the gutters cleaned out, the rain trickled down and dry-rotted the timbers, and the big stone barn is caved in. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Do you think keeping a teenage monster locked in a barn is going to end well? ❋ Unknown (2010)

But, you can't wait until your 'barn is on fire' before you look for the buckets of water to put it out!. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Quail on a covey rise and flocks of doves were always an invitation for someone whocouldn't hit the side of a barn from the inside to claim a bird that fell in your lap. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I could not hit the broad side of a barn from the inside with a pass. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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