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barn
has definitions from the fields of agriculture,nuclear physics
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[ noun ] (agriculture) an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals
Used in print (Clayton C. Barbeau, The Ikon....)Brittany , that stone-gray mystery through which he traveled for thirty days , sleeping in the barns of farmers or alongside roads , had worked some subtle change in him , he knew , and it was in Brittany that he had met Pierre . (Stephen Longstreet, Eagles Where I Walk....)Below in the open bay facing Manhattan was Staten_Island , gritty with clam_shells and mud_flats behind which nested farms , cattle barns , and berry thickets . (Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)Abel sat and regarded the farm country which , spreading_out from both sides of the road , rolled greenly up to where the silent white houses and long barns and silos nested into the tilled fields . (Arthur Miller, "The Prophecy," in The Best...)She went_into the living_room and turned_on three lamps , then back into the kitchen where she turned_on the ceiling light and the switch that lit the floods on the barn , illuminating the driveway . (Jane Gilmore Rushing, "Against the Moon,"...)The children had to play away from the house ( in the barn loft or the pasture behind the barn ) , to maintain a proper quietness . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (atomic or nuclear physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter
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