barn

Definition of barn in English English dictionary: 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; A person who latches on to another person (called the hull) and thinks he or she is somehow better because of his or her association with the hull; An arena
Maple Leaf Gardens was a grand old barn.; A child; {n} a storehouse used for corn, hay, stabling; child; {i} farm building used to house animals or store hay and grain; an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals (physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter; A unit of nuclear cross section (area) One barn equals 10-28 square meter; -an agricultural building with large, usually sliding doors, prominent roofs, and predominantly open spaces on the interior, primarily used as storage buildings for hay, grains, and farm equipment and shelters for livestock; A barn is a building on a farm in which crops or animal food can be kept. Farm building used for sheltering animals, their feed and other supplies, farm machinery, and farm products. Barns are named according to their purpose (e.g., hog barns, dairy barns, tobacco barns, and tractor barns). The principal type in the U.S. is the general-purpose barn, used for housing livestock and for storing hay and grain. Most North American and European farms have one or more barns. They usually consist of two stories, though one-story barns gained in popularity in the late 20th century; an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals; To lay up in a barn; A covered building used chiefly for storing grain, hay, and other productions of a farm; A unit of surface area equal to 10[-28] square metres; (physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter; In the United States a part of the barn is often used for stables; A unit of area for measuring a nuclear cross section One barn equals 10-24 square centimeter; A unit for measuring cross sections 1 barn = 1024 square centimeters The units appropriate in high energy physics are usually the millibarn (10-3 barn), the microbarn (10-6), or the nanobarn (10-9 barn); 10–24 cm2 A unit of measure for capture cross section; A barn is a large building on a farm for storage of grain, crops etc; What Canadian players call an arena; = children; n gudang
barn burner: Any successful or impressive event
barn burners: plural form of barn burner
barn dance: A type of set step routine dancing, such as square dance
barn dance: To take part in barn dancing
barn door: Falling from a climb by losing hold on one side of the body and swinging sideways like a door
barn doors: Four hinged metal slats that come (or are attachable) on the front of cinema lights. They are used for shaping light and fastening light gels
Clip the C-47 to the barn doors.
barn doors: The doors of a barn
barn find: A valuable item recovered from an undeserving storage, usually in the countryside, where it lay more or less forgotten, especially vintage automobiles (Ferrari, Porsche, etc.)
barn finds: plural form of barn find
barn owl: An owl of the genus Tyto, often having a white face and commonly found in barns and other farm buildings
barn owls: plural form of barn owl
barn swallow: The most widespread species of swallow in the world; a distinctive passerine bird with blue upperparts, a long, deeply forked tail and curved, pointed wings, is found in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas
barn swallows: plural form of barn swallow
barn-owl: Attributive form of barn owl, noun
My grandfather had a barn-owl look.
barn dance: a dance party featuring country dancing
barn dance: A barn dance is a social event people go to for country dancing. A social gathering, often held in a barn, with music and square dancing. a social event at which there is country dancing square dance
barn dance: American social dance originally held in a barn
barn door: the large sliding door of a barn
barn door: Are an accessory used on spotlights and flood lamps to control the direction of light and width of the beam
barn door: (n ) an off balance move that causes a climber to pivot on two points of contact making it more difficult to cling to the rock 2 (vb ) to perform a barn door
barn door: Occurs when a climber does not have an adequate grip with one side of the body and gravity forces a shift in balance that causes that part of the climber's body to swing away from the rock The side of the body that does have a firm grasp acts like a hinge, and the climber swings out from the rock like a barn door opening Good for a few chuckles for everyone except the aforementioned climber
barn door: n an off balance move that causes a climber to pivot on two points of contact making it more difficult to cling to the rock 2 (vb ) to perform a barn door
barn owl: mottled buff and white owl often inhabiting barns and other structures; important in rodent control
barn owl: A predatory nocturnal bird (Tyto alba) having a white, heart-shaped face, buff-brown upper plumage, and pale underparts, often nesting in barns and other buildings. Also called monkey-faced owl. Any of several species of nocturnal birds of prey (genus Tyto), sometimes called monkey-faced owls because of their heart-shaped facial disk and absence of ear tufts. Barn owls are about 12-16 in. (30-40 cm) long, white to gray or yellowish to brownish orange. Their dark eyes are smaller than those of other owls. They hunt mainly small rodents, often on cultivated land, and nest in hollow trees, buildings, towers, and old hawk nests. The common barn owl is found worldwide except in Antarctica and Micronesia. Other species occur only in the Old World
barn owl: type of owl which commonly frequents barns and preys on mice
barn raising: A social event in which members of a community assist in the building of a new barn
barn spider: an orange and tan spider with darkly banded legs that spins an orb web daily; "the barn spider was made famous in E
barn spider: White's book `Charlotte's Web'
barn swallow: common swallow of North America and Europe that nests in barns etc
barn swallow: A widely distributed bird (Hirundo rustica) that nests in barns and caves and has a deeply forked tail, a dark-blue back, and tan underparts
bank barn: A barn built into a hillside as protection against wind and cold, with a back entrance at the second-floor level
around Robin Hood's barn: all over the place
around Robin Hood's barn: the long way around; a roundabout or circuitous route
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barny: the barnacle goose
big house, little house, back house, barn: A style of architecture in New England, also called connected farm
bit by a barn mouse: tipsy
born in a barn: Lacking a sense of etiquette; ill-mannered
Phone at a symphony concert? I'd ask if these people were born in a barn, but that would disrespect the animals.
born in a barn: Of humble birth, especially when referring to Jesus Christ
No surprise really for followers of Jesus, who after all was a rural dweller himself, born in a barn.
born in a barn: Engaging in the annoying behavior of inappropriately, and usually neglectfully, leaving open a door or window
Neither bothered to lock or shut the house's front or back doors. It was like they had been born in a barn, she says.
pony in the barn: An exciting and real prospect, something to be legitimately excited about
show barn: A building for exhibiting cattle and other domestic animals, as at a county fairgrounds
The Okmulgee County Commissioners voted to award Bid #5 for a new show barn at the Okmulgee CountyFairgrounds. .10-19-04.
smell the barn: To experience heightened anticipation or to act with renewed speed or energy as one approaches a destination, goal, or other desired outcome, like a livestock animal at day's end returning to its barn
Smelling the barn can result in driving too fast, not clearing weapons properly, and bypassing ammunition-recovery procedures.
smelling the barn: Present participle of smell the barn
lock the barn door after the horse is gone: (Atasözü) Try to deal with something after it is too late
Now my friend wants to fix his house but it is like locking the barn door after the horse is gone. There was a flood and the damage is already done.
lock the barn door after the horse is gone: (Atasözü) To be careful or try to make something safe when it is too late
After Mary failed the examination, she said she would study hard after that. She wanted to lock the barn door after the horse was stolen.
Dutch barn: a farm building with a curved roof on a frame that has no walls, used for storing hay
barns: plural of barn
tithe barn: barn originally built to hold tithes paid in kind and common in England

Turkish - English

Definition of barn in Turkish English dictionary: barn

barn

Turkish pronunciation

bärn

Synonyms

bairn, limpet, farm building, outbuilding, shed

Pronunciation

/ˈbärn/ /ˈbɑːrn/

Etymology

[ bärn ] (noun.) before 12th century. Middle English bern, from Old English bereærn 'barn, granary', compound of bere 'barley' and ærn, ræn 'dwelling, barn', from Proto-Germanic *raznan (cf. Old High German erin, Old Norse rann), from pre-Germanic *rodh-sno, from Proto-Indo-European *erH- 'to rest'. More at rest and barley.