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BARN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("barn" is a kind of...):
farm building (a building on a farm)
Meronyms (parts of "barn"):
hayloft; haymow; mow (a loft in a barn where hay is stored)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "barn"):
byre; cow barn; cowbarn; cowhouse; cowshed (a barn for cows)
tithe barn (barn originally built to hold tithes paid in kind and common in England)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("barn" is a kind of...):
area unit; square measure (a system of units used to measure areas)
Domain category:
atomic physics; nuclear physics; nucleonics (the branch of physics that studies the internal structure of atomic nuclei)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb barn
Context examples:
By the time she came back, Tom had slipped off into the barn; and when she had looked about and searched every hole and corner, and found nobody, she went to bed, thinking she must have been dreaming with her eyes open.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
When he passed Penerley, where were three cottages and a barn, he reached the edge of the tree country, and found the great barren heath of Blackdown stretching in front of him, all pink with heather and bronzed with the fading ferns.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
While I was overcome by these feelings, I left the spot where I had committed the murder, and seeking a more secluded hiding-place, I entered a barn which had appeared to me to be empty.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Every barn in the neighbourhood, every stone in the church, and every foot of the churchyard, had some association of its own, in my mind, connected with these books, and stood for some locality made famous in them.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
We had a famous set-to at rat-hunting all the morning in my father's great barns; and he played his part so well that I have liked him the better ever since.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
A regular menagerie appeared in barn and shed, for pet animals were allowed.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
"You should 'a' ben up at Riley's barn last night," Jim announced inconsequently.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Uncle Henry was milking the cows in the barnyard, and Toto had jumped out of her arms and was running toward the barn, barking furiously.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
That night the Company slept at St. Leonard's, in the great monastic barns and spicarium—ground well known both to Alleyne and to John, for they were almost within sight of the Abbey of Beaulieu.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She was alarmed by this account and passed several hours in looking for him, when the gates of Geneva were shut, and she was forced to remain several hours of the night in a barn belonging to a cottage, being unwilling to call up the inhabitants, to whom she was well known.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
