Word Finder - silo

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A vertical building, usually cylindrical, used for the production of silage.

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From the shape, a building used for the storage of grain.

synonyms

• grain elevator
• granary

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An underground bunker used to hold missiles which may be launched.

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An organizational unit that has poor interaction with other units, negatively affecting overall performance.

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(informatics) A structure in the information system that is poorly networked with other structures, with data exchange hampered.

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Our networking is organized in silos, and employees lose time manually transferring data.

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A self-enclosed group of like-minded individuals.

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To store in a silo.

synonyms

• ensile

Tang uses a steel silo of the type used by farmers to store grain.

No longer can any vestiges of the silo mentality be tolerated.

In this case we have shutdown of strategic nuclear missiles coincident with UFO sighting over a missile silo!

The final product is transported to the 50 ton capacity finished product silo by a dense phase pneumatic conveying system.

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However, above each silo in the west wall are blocked apertures that also contain silicates.

The strongly centralized decision-making process has tended to provide institutional reinforcement for this professional silo [27] .

Framatome will also look at how to treat the waste in the high-active waste silo at the site.

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The strongly centralized decision-making process has tended to provide institutional reinforcement for this professional silo [27 ].

This silo approach also applies at the European level.

Grain storage silo systems and in the north of the region maize driers are also important in the region.

Oats are often grown in fields adjacent to wheat fields where they might experience blow-by contamination, be harvested using the same machinery or housed in the same silo.

And no, making an explosive barrel the size of a grain silo doesn't count as innovative.

He ordered all heavy artillery not absolutely necessary for defensive purposes, and all stores beyond the minimum required for immediate supplies, to be withdrawn from the Isonzo front and brought south of Treviso, behind the Silo.

Mommsen (Unteritalische Dialekten, p. 345) pointed out that in the social war all the coins of Pompaedius Silo have the Latin legend "Italia," while the other leaders in all but one case used Oscan.

As confessor to Queen Adosinda, wife of King Silo of Oviedo (774-783), and as the master of Alcuin and Etherius of Osma, Beatus exercised wide influence.