silo
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "silo"
Etymology
From Spanish silo, of unclear origin. See Spanish silo for more.
Pronunciation
Noun
- (agriculture) A vertical building, usually cylindrical, used for the production of silage.
- (agriculture) From the shape, a building used for the storage of grain.
- Synonyms: granary, grain elevator
- (military) An underground bunker used to hold missiles which may be launched.
- 1987, Michio Kaku, Daniel Axelrod, To Win a Nuclear War: The Pentagon's Secret War Plans, Black Rose Books Ltd., →ISBN, page 203:
- As a rule of thumb, to reliably destroy a hardened missile silo or communications bunker, a one megaton warhead should land within a 600 foot radius of its target. This will ensure that the enemy silo lies within the crater gouged out by the nuclear blast.
- (derogatory, management) An organizational unit that has poor interaction with other units, negatively affecting overall performance.
- 2006, Albert J. Mills, Jean C. Helms Mills, John Bratton, Organizational Behaviour in a Global Context, page 116:
- A silo is created when members in one department or function do not interact with those in another department, even though there might be operational benefits to the interaction.
- 2021 May 5, Tony Streeter, “Network News: Disused structures "assets to be preserved", say MPs”, in RAIL, number 930, page 23:
- Graeme Bickerdike, a member of campaign organisation The HRE Group, told RAIL: "This infilling and demolition programme - costing much more than repair - has been conceived with no thought for its impact beyond the silos where distant, unaccountable officials manage their spreadsheets.
- 2024 February 7, Lee Waters tells Conrad Landin, “A mission to improve transport for Wales”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 34:
- "And the mindset of a silo of rail engineers, and a silo of highway engineers, and a silo of bus experts, and a silo of active travel people, you're not going to integrate just because you put them in one organisation.
"You have to actively look at ways to cross-fertilise that thinking, to get multi-modal projects hard-wired in. And from our view, I see TfW as a behaviour change organisation.
- (derogatory, informatics) A structure in the information system that is poorly networked with other structures, with data exchange hampered.
- Our networking is organized in silos, and employees lose time manually transferring data.
- (derogatory, slang) A group of like-minded individuals who are not exposed to outside opinions or input.
- Synonym: echo chamber
- (computing) In Microsoft Windows operating systems, a kernel object for isolating groups of threads.
Derived terms
- bag silo
- missile silo
- sack silo
- siloism
- siloization, siloisation
- silolike
- silo truck
Translations
vertical building for storing grain
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underground bunker
Verb
silo (third-person singular simple present siloes or silos, present participle siloing, simple past and past participle siloed)
- (transitive) To store in a silo.
- Synonym: ensile
- (transitive) To separate; to isolate.
- 2024 June 26, Stephanie McNeal, “Influencers Aren’t Getting Famous Like They Used To”, in Glamour:
- Then there’s the fact that platforms like TikTok tend to silo users based on interests. Niche communities (insert hobby here plus Tok) are thriving, and so a person who may be famous on FarmTok or BookTok may have trouble breaking out of the mold.
Further reading
Anagrams
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
silo n
- silo (vertical building for storing grain)
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Participle
silo
Further reading
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish silo or French silo (itself from Spanish), perhaps from Latin sirus, from Ancient Greek σιρός (sirós); alternatively from Basque zilo, zulo.
Pronunciation
Noun
silo m (plural silo's, diminutive silootje n)
- a silo (building for storage)
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Caribbean Hindustani: silo
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
silo m (plural silos)
Further reading
- “silo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
- (agriculture) silo (vertical building for storing grain)
- (transferred sense, military) silo (underground missile facility)
References
- silo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
Etymology
Noun
silo m (definite singular siloen, indefinite plural siloer, definite plural siloene)
- a silo
Derived terms
References
- “silo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Etymology
Noun
silo m (definite singular siloen, indefinite plural siloar, definite plural siloane)
- a silo
Derived terms
References
- “silo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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