barn : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: barn	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for barn
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
barn n 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 Synonym(s): barn, b
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Barn \Barn\, n. A child. [Obs.] See {Bairn}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Barn \Barn\, n. [OE. bern, AS. berern, bern; bere barley + ern, [91]rn, a close place. [?]92. See {Barley}.] 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. {Barn owl} (Zo[94]l.), an owl of Europe and America ({Aluco flammeus}, or {Strix flammea}), which frequents barns and other buildings. {Barn swallow} (Zo[94]l.), the common American swallow ({Hirundo horreorum}), which attaches its nest of mud to the beams and rafters of barns.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Barn \Barn\, v. t. To lay up in a barn. [Obs.] --Shak. Men . . . often barn up the chaff, and burn up the grain. --Fuller.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
barn n. [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 cm^2) and the book containing cross-sections has a picture of a barn on the cover.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Barn a storehouse (Deut. 28:8; Job 39:12; Hag. 2:19) for grain, which was usually under ground, although also sometimes above ground (Luke 12:18).