What does barn mean?
Definitions for barn
bɑrnbarn
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Princeton's WordNet
barnnoun
an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals
barn, bnoun
(physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Barnnoun
A place or house for laying up any sort of grain, hay, or straw, &c.
Etymology: bern, Sax.
In vain the barns expect their promis’d load,
Nor barns at home, nor reeks are heap’d abroad. Dryden.I took notice of the make of several barns here: after having laid a frame of wood, they place, at the four corners of it, four blocks, in such a shape as neither mice nor vermin can creep up. Joseph Addison, on Italy.
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barn
A barn is a large agricultural building typically used for storing farm products or housing livestock, such as cattle or horses. It may also be used for storing farming equipment or fodder. Barns are commonly found on farms and ranches.
Webster Dictionary
Barnnoun
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
Barnverb
to lay up in a barn
Barnnoun
a child. [Obs.] See Bairn
Wikidata
Barn
A barn is an agricultural building primarily located on farms and used for many purposes, notably for the housing of livestock and storage of crops. In addition, barns may be used for equipment storage, as a covered workplace, such as threshing. The word barn is also used to describe buildings used for uses such as a tobacco barn or dairy barn. An archaic word for one type of barn meant for keeping cattle was byre.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Barn
bärn, n. a building in which grain, hay, &c. are stored.—v.t. to store in a barn.—ns. and adjs. Barn′-door, Barn′-yard, as in barn-yard fowl.—n. Barn′-owl, the commonest of British owls.—Barn-door, in cricket, used of a player who blocks every ball: humorously, any large target. [A.S. bere-ern, contracted bern, from bere, barley, ern, a house.]
The New Hacker's Dictionary
barn
[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 cm2) and the book containing cross-sections has a picture of a barn on the cover.
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
BARN
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Barn is ranked #91625 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Barn surname appeared 201 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Barn.
47.7% or 96 total occurrences were White.
25.3% or 51 total occurrences were Asian.
20.4% or 41 total occurrences were Black.
3.4% or 7 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
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Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'barn' in Nouns Frequency: #2221
Anagrams for barn »
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of barn in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of barn in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of barn in a Sentence
Whenever you go to any of these fabulous stores, [like] Kmart, Ann Taylor, Domino’s Pizza, Chili’s Bar Grill and Best Buy … Pottery Barn, Williams Sonoma … they’re going to ask if you’d like to give a dollar or two to the children of St. Jude.
A little and a little, collected together, become a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop makes an inundation.
Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.
Asian males are not known to be forming cohesive groups that tolerate one another, so we're not going to be moving multiple males up here until we have multiple habitats and barn spaces ready for them.
A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
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- إسطبلArabic
- хамбар, плевняBulgarian
- stodolaCzech
- ysguborWelsh
- stald, ladeDanish
- Scheune, Stall, SchuppenGerman
- μπαρν, αχυρώναςGreek
- garbejoEsperanto
- establo, granero, galpónSpanish
- rehiEstonian
- karjasuojaFinnish
- grange, fenilFrench
- sabhalScottish Gaelic
- pajta, istálló, csűrHungarian
- փարախ, ախոռ, գոմArmenian
- lumbungIndonesian
- hlaðaIcelandic
- granaioItalian
- 納屋, 家畜小屋Japanese
- გომი, ბეღელი, გომურიGeorgian
- stadīleLatin
- ScheierLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- klēts, kūtsLatvian
- bangsalMalay
- låveNorwegian
- stodoła, barnPolish
- celeiroPortuguese
- hambarRomanian
- амбар, сарай, овин, барнRussian
- štagaljSerbo-Croatian
- stodolaSlovak
- štala, hlevSlovene
- lada, barn, ladugård, lagårdSwedish
- ahırTurkish
- lecek, jevodalecek, veteralecekVolapük
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