What's the difference between barn and yarn?

Barn


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To lay up in a barn.
  • (n.) A child. [Obs.] See Bairn.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Angela Barnes As I understand it, dating websites are supposed to provide a confidential forum for the exchange of personal information between people who do not yet know each other but might like to.
  • (2) Matthew Fuller, 25, Rueben Barnes, 16, and Mitchell Sweeney, 22, died from electrocution and Marcus Wilson, 19, died after installing insulation batts in extreme heat.
  • (3) 1-1 2.15am GMT 48 mins Giles Barnes is down again, turning his ankle under a challenge (but not actually touched by the tackle).
  • (4) In October, Amazon announces a digital partnership with DC Comics, prompting Barnes & Noble to remove its comic books from its shelves.
  • (5) 7.13pm BST The starting XIs England: Hart (Oxford University), Walker (Barnes), Cahill (Harrow Chequers), Jagielka (Cambridge University), Baines (1st Surrey Rifles), Wilshere (Old Harrovians), Gerrard (Wanderers), Walcott (Swifts), Cleverley (Old Carthusians), Welbeck (Royal Engineers), Rooney (Old Etonians).
  • (6) The policies of zero tolerance equip local and federal law-enforcement with increasingly autocratic powers of coercion and surveillance (the right to invade anybody's privacy, bend the rules of evidence, search barns, stop motorists, inspect bank records, tap phones) and spread the stain of moral pestilence to ever larger numbers of people assumed to be infected with reefer madness – anarchists and cheap Chinese labour at the turn of the 20th century, known homosexuals and suspected communists in the 1920s, hippies and anti-Vietnam war protesters in the 1960s, nowadays young black men sentenced to long-term imprisonment for possession of a few grams of short-term disembodiment.
  • (7) Those against the changes include Crace, the 2011 winner Julian Barnes and Philip Hensher, who wrote in the Guardian: "It seems quite baffling to many writers that a major prize that has so successfully promoted them should move its terms so radically and for no good reason."
  • (8) Now, regeneration and changing fashion have combined to hugely expand the proportion of London viewed as desirable, according to Yolande Barnes, head of research at estate agent Savills.
  • (9) Matched, binocular displacing prisms were mounted over the eyes of 19 barn owls (Tyto alba) beginning at ages ranging from 10 to 272 d. In nearly all cases, the visual field was shifted 23 degrees to the right.
  • (10) In the grounds of his house, Jasper Johns has a studio, a huge converted barn in which the 74 year old does most of his work.
  • (11) Don’t they know Barnes’ wife was born in Thailand?
  • (12) Barnes said there was no evidence to suggest that "using the stick of benefit sanctions" would help people engage with treatment and aid recovery.
  • (13) "You can say after the event that it was because of Hillsborough but at the time we believed we'd do what we needed to that night," Barnes says.
  • (14) Ann Barnes, PCC for Kent, said it was not her intention to attract bad publicity to the county's police officers and staff.
  • (15) From Springsteen to Jimmy Barnes, is any rocker safe from rightwingers?
  • (16) Inside the first 10 minutes, Boyd hit the bar and Lukas Jutkiewicz saw a goal correctly chalked off for offside, while Danny Ings headed just wide at 2-1, and substitute Ashley Barnes struck the bar late on.
  • (17) The survival of a laboratory strain and a naturally occurring fecal strain of Escherichia coli, with and without a Tn5-containing derivative of ColE1, was examined after aerosol dispersal in a laboratory office and a barn under ambient temperature and humidity conditions.
  • (18) Barnes said Monis knew what he was doing and was not incapacitated by a psychiatric condition.
  • (19) Detection of interaural time differences underlies azimuthal sound localization in the barn owl Tyto alba.
  • (20) The momentum continued when Barnes played a perfect cross into Dawkins, who simply whiffed 12 yards from goal.

Yarn


Definition:

  • (n.) Spun wool; woolen thread; also, thread of other material, as of cotton, flax, hemp, or silk; material spun and prepared for use in weaving, knitting, manufacturing sewing thread, or the like.
  • (n.) One of the threads of which the strands of a rope are composed.
  • (n.) A story told by a sailor for the amusement of his companions; a story or tale; as, to spin a yarn.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The fabric protection factors (FPF) of 5 metal meshes, to simulate the weave pattern and yarn dimensions of typical fabrics, and 6 textiles with variable construction (woven and knitted), fibre type and dye were determined using a spectrophotometric assay and human skin testing.
  • (2) The 66 patients were subdivided into four groups according to the type of conduit harvested (single left internal thoracic artery or saphenous vein) and the type of material used for the sternal closure (steel wires or nylon yarns).
  • (3) Facts were mutable, and didn’t need to displace a good yarn.
  • (4) The Way Home, To Save a Life, and hoop-shooting nuns drama The Mighty Macs are, similarly, self-fulfilment yarns in which God is a bit of a backdrop.
  • (5) Finally we’d be in the hands of a pro, someone who knows how to tell a whiz-bang action yarn with a big budget.
  • (6) At first Sabry was just talking to his friends, posting idiosyncratic yarns or musings that gently push at social mores.
  • (7) The investigation was carried out in an asbestos plant producing yarn, cords, gaskets and frictional products.
  • (8) Grafts were woven from polypropylene yarn into conduits 4 mm I.D.
  • (9) • 370-372 Morningside Road, 0131-447 3042, loopylornas.com Slow down with a bit of knitting K1 Yarns, Edinburgh Fabulous knitting shop K1 Yarns is running workshops every Thursday, Saturday and Sunday in August, including Fair Isle knitting classes, beginners courses on knitting and crochet and a very handy class on how to knit socks (prices start from £15).
  • (10) Yarn preparation areas (opening through fine spinning) were studied at two cotton textile mills which had been studied 5 years previously in Shanghai.
  • (11) Raw cotton from 4 machine picked varieties and 2 machine stripped varieties is examined by stereomicroscope and bright-field microscopy for presence of plant trash(bract, leaf, stem, seed, boll, and weed fragments-size range 841-2000mum) that gives rise to cotton dust during yarn manufacturing operations.
  • (12) Also, interleaved between the numbered chapters of Shadow's adventures, are unnumbered chapters headed "Coming to America", in which we get yarns of how travellers to America might have brought their own peculiar spirits and legends to this new land.
  • (13) After decortication of the graft, posterior arches of C1 and 2, and microsurgical excision of the cartilage of the C1-2 lateral joints, the graft was imbedded into the entire C1-2 space, fixed, and tightened using a braid of "nylacap" yarn.
  • (14) Limited environmental sampling, performed using a vertical elutriator in yarn preparation and weaving areas, indicated that exposures were similar to those reported in other parts of the developing world.
  • (15) Risk increased significantly with duration of employment in: production of synthetic yarns, plastic packaging, and miscellaneous chemical compounds; fabricating structural metal and stationary tanks; body factories; electrical plants; and retail sale of paint and wallpaper.
  • (16) On Friday the hunt for these precious treats kicked off again – with a yarn explaining how this year’s production might be disrupted by 200 striking Cadbury workers.
  • (17) Complications such as thromboses, infections and false aneurysms appear to occur randomly after different lengths of implantation, thicker fibrous tissue capsules are associated with velour grafts with highly textured yarns, the incidence of mineralized tissue and of endothelialized luminal surfaces is rare, weft knitted textile prostheses appear less mechanically stable and more sensitive to iatrogenic trauma than warp knitted, and the incidences of lipid and cholesterol adsorption, bacterial colonization and sterile fluid loss need further investigation.
  • (18) An influenza-like illness appeared recently among workers in a plant processing synthetic yarn.
  • (19) You might prefer the story about rights to social security, or you might prefer a yarn about the duty to contribute to social insurance.
  • (20) It was a yarn worthy of Robert Louis Stevenson , an epic befitting of Homer, but the Italian immigration officer who deported him had no interest in the tale.

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