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See also: Appendix:Variations of "silo"
English
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.
- (informal, 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.
- (informal, derogatory, informatics) A structure in the information system that is poorly networked with other structures, with data exchange hampered.
- Synonym: information silo
- 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
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.
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Czech
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
- “silo”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “silo”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “silo”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025
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Dutch
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
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
silo m (plural silos)
Further reading
- “silo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Italian
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
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Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Noun
silo m (definite singular siloen, indefinite plural siloer, definite plural siloene)
- a silo
Derived terms
References
- “silo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
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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