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barn

bɑrn
WordNet
Two women raise silkworms in a barn
Two women raise silkworms in a barn
  1. (n) barn
    an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals
  2. (n) barn
    (physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter
Illustrations
Barn Swallow. Numbered top right: 21. Part of the second album with drawings of birds. Fourth of twelve albums with drawings of animals, birds and plants known around 1600, commissioned by Emperor Rudolf II. With explanation in Dutch, Latin and French.
Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica)
The straw cutter. In a hay barn, a farmhand cuts straw on a bench.
The straw cutter
A barn on the banks of a river in Gelderland. Sheets are bleaching on the grass. In the foreground a man is walking with a broom over his shoulder, in the background cattle is grazing between trees.
A barn on the banks of a river in Gelderland. Sheets are bleaching on the grass. In the foreground a man is walking with a broom over his shoulder, in the background cattle is grazing between trees.
Hilly landscape with a goatherd near a barn, seen from the back. In the barn is a woman who directs the goats outside.
Hilly landscape with a goatherd near a barn, seen from the back. In the barn is a woman who directs the goats outside.
Landscape with farm and barn under trees, on the right a seated man with dogs drinking from a pond. Pendant of a painting in the Mauritshuis.
Landscape with farm
Three women sort silkworms in a barn
Landscape with barns along a stream
The card players. Three men are playing cards around a table in front of a barn. On the left a woman with a man carrying a basket of eggs.
The card players. Three men are playing cards around a table in front of a barn. On the left a woman with a man carrying a basket of eggs.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
The barn owl has one ear higher than the other. The left ear is higher and points downward to hear sounds from below it, while the right ear is lower and pointed upward to pick up sounds from above.
  1. Barn
    A child. See Bairn.
  2. Barn
    bärn 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.
  3. Barn
    To lay up in a barn. "Men . . . often barn up the chaff, and burn up the grain."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. barn
    To store up in a barn.
  2. (n) barn
    A child.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Barn
    bärn a building in which grain, hay, &c. are stored
  2. (v.t) Barn
    to store in a barn
  3. (ns) Barn
    and adjs. Barn′-door, Barn′-yard, as in barn-yard fowl
Quotations
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
Bill Vaughan
Sam Rayburn
Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.
Sam Rayburn
H. Ross Perot
If someone is blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?
H. Ross Perot
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.
Saadi
Sam Rayburn
A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
Sam Rayburn
Idioms

Were you born in a barn? - If someone asks you this, it means that you forgot to close the door when you came in.

Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary OE. bern, AS. berern, bern,; bere, barley + ern, ærn, a close place. √92. See Barley

Usage in the news

Reviewed by Mark Sarvas for The Barnes & Noble Review. csmonitor.com

Restored barn could be ' crown jewel ' of new fairgrounds. the-daily-record.com

The reception followed at Diamond H Party Barn. dentonrc.com

Dona Ana County sheriff's spokeswoman Kelly Jameson says 72-year-old Wayne Barnes of Las Cruces was pronounced dead at the scene of the incident Sunday morning. 770kkob.com

Cub Scout Camp was held July 26-29 at Wilder Field in Irvine, under the leadership of Camp Director Ruth Barnes-Shaw. timesobserver.com

Barn Dance to benefit Menifee Valley Community Cupboard . pe.com

A Community Barn Dance and Food Drive to help support the Menifee Valley Community Cupboard will take place Saturday, Nov 17. pe.com

Partygoers will enjoy catered finger foods and fine desserts, door prizes, live music by Veronika Barnes and Vintage Two, and a cash wine bar. demingheadlight.com

U-Cut gardens open at Dahlia Barn. valleyrecord.com

The Dahlia Barn in North Bend has opened its U-Cut Gardens, 10 am to 5 pm on Saturdays and Sundays, through September. valleyrecord.com

Established on an old horse farm in 2002, The Dahlia Barn is a family owned dahlia farm located at 13110 446th Ave S.E. valleyrecord.com

If Daiquiris aren't for you, the barn also offers a selection of beer and wine. kbtx.com

Barnes Foundation and The Dandelion Restaurant. travelandleisure.com

When you're in Philadelphia to check out the opening of the gleaming 4 1/2-acre city campus of the Barnes Foundation, home to 181 Renoirs—the largest collection in the world. travelandleisure.com

Student volunteers build barn on Dartmouth's Organic Farm. ptz.com

Usage in scientific papers

Barnes function (or as the inverse of a di-gamma function).
Characteristic polynomials of random matrices at edge singularities

SS00 observations, fully evolved elliptical galaxies, or well-evolved ma jor mergers which are evolving into elliptical galaxies (see simulations by Barnes & Hernquist 1996).
Molecular Gas in Infrared-Excess, Optically-Selected QSOs and the Connection with Infrared Luminous Galaxies

Thus, while Amazon may make better book recommendations than Barnes and Noble, if they arrive at connected user components in the same manner, then in this survey they would be considered equivalent.
A Connection-Centric Survey of Recommender Systems Research

T → ∞, uniformly in α for |α| ≤ L, where L = 1 2π is the density of zeros of height T . G(·) is the Barnes G–function, a(k) is given by (1.1), and Fk (2πα) is given in theorem 3.
Random matrix theory and discrete moments of the Riemann zeta function

Galaxy–galaxy interactions could also provide a mechanism for the morphological transformation of spirals into ellipticals or lenticulars (Toomre & Toomre 1972; Barnes & Hernquist 1991) and enhance star formation (Lavery & Henry 1988; Lavery, Pierce, & McClure 1992; Rakos, Maindl, & Schombert 1996).
At the Vigintennial of the Butcher-Oemler Effect

Usage in literature

As the sleigh swept past the house on its way to the barn. "The Silver Maple" by Marian Keith

As soon as his frock was on, he hastened down stairs and went out to the barn in search of Beechnut. "Stuyvesant" by Jacob Abbott

Unhitching my team, with eager haste I climbed upon old Queen, and rode at ease toward the barn. "A Son of the Middle Border" by Hamlin Garland

I had given up sleeping in the house, with its squirrel-cage rooms, preferring the soft prairie hay of the barn. "Track's End" by Hayden Carruth

It buried the low, broad, log barn almost to the eaves. "The Backwoodsmen" by Charles G. D. Roberts

The big brothers, hurrying from the barn-yard, crowded one another to share in the triumph. "The Biography of a Prairie Girl" by Eleanor Gates

One day he stole Curly, and led him out of sight behind the barn, and mounting him rode down to the spring. "Valley of Wild Horses" by Zane Grey

The prospective scene of our slumbers was a barn at the back of the tavern. "Adventures and Recollections" by Bill o'th' Hoylus End

He was a privileged character at the Curry barn. "Old Man Curry" by Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan

So the big barn that belongs to Ignacz Goldstein, the Jew, is thrown open for a night's dancing and music and jollification. "A Bride of the Plains" by Baroness Emmuska Orczy

Usage in poetry
Nan's off a-churnin';
Dick's gone to th' barn;
Lap little Billy up,
To keep him warm.
"Cradle Song" by Edwin Waugh Author object (171)
Then the great down in the west
Grew into sight,
A barn stored full to the ridge
With black of night;
"The Barn and the Down" by Edward Thomas Author object (166)
But far down and near barn and I
Since then have smiled,
Having seen my new cautiousness
By itself beguiled
"The Barn and the Down" by Edward Thomas Author object (166)
Mr. Finney had a turnip,
And it grew, and it grew,
And it grew behind the barn,
And the turnip did no harm.
"Mr. Finney's Turnip" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Author object (294)
The Lord's bin hard on me, Sir,
He's stown my barn away.
O, dowly, dowly was that neet
He stole lile Doad away!
"Lile Dode" by F W Moorman
The little Boy in the Barn,
Lay down on some hay.
The Owl came out,
And flew about,
And the little Boy ran away.
"Dame Fidget And Her Silver Penny" by Clara Doty Bates Author object (117)