(n.) A storehouse or repository for grain, esp. after it is thrashed or husked; a cornbouse; also (Fig.), a region fertile in grain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wheat, barley, and maize, each in 15-kg parcels at 15 and 19% initial moisture content (IMC), were kept in a Bavarian farm granary from June through November 1990.
(2) Eleven-kilogram parcels of 2-row and 6-row barley initially at 18% moisture content were implanted in dry bulk oats in a farm granary in Manitoba for 60 weeks between August 1983 and October 1984.
(3) In the São José market, once a slaves' quarter and granary, the stalls now host several bars, and this one, named after Fernando Botero, the Colombian artist known for painting roly-poly figures, is the most happening.
(4) The authors studied the commonest species of storage mites, living in granaries and in house dust.
(5) This study was performed in order to investigate the production of H2O2 by mitochondria isolated from granary weevil (Sitophilus granarius) and mouse liver on exposure to PH3.
(6) Similarly, cytogenetic methods were used to identify 349 adults collected from granaries and artificial pit-shelters.
(7) Ochratoxin A and citrinin developed in 11 kg parcels of amber durum wheat at 15% and 19% initial moisture content (MC) exposed to simulated bulk storage in a Manitoba granary for 60 weeks between July 1984 and September 1985.
(8) The granaries were pilfered with no account of why the stores were empty.
(9) Our granaries are full and we have ample food stock, but we are not able to transport supplies at a faster pace,” said Shrimani Raj Khanal, a manager at the Nepal Food Corp. Army helicopters have air-dropped instant noodles and biscuits to remote communities but people need rice and other ingredients to cook a proper meal, he said.
(10) Experiments are described for T-independent polyclonal activation of B cells in vitro by the immunoglobulin binding substance (IBS) from the granary weevil.
(11) On the 13th floor of a hotel in Leeds’s regenerated Granary Wharf area, men in suits sit around a long table.
(12) In the event of assault she can take refuge in a granary with a metal trap door.
(13) Relief maize is the only hope for subsistence farmers with little or no money, no food in the granary, and no prospect for improvement.
(14) Imagine several weeks without a Hovis granary loaf.
(15) "Our field staff are already reporting signs of distress in rural areas, including empty granaries and farmers selling off their livestock to make ends meet," said WFP country director Felix Bamezon.
(16) Eleven-kilogram parcels of HY-320 wheat, a cultivar of the new Canada Prairie Spring class, were kept at 15 and 19% initial moisture contents (IMC) in simulated storage in a Manitoba farm granary for 60 weeks to determine biotic and abiotic changes and mycotoxin production.
(17) Occupants living in a factory used previously as a granary and known to be contaminated by the rice weevil developed rhinitis and asthma.
(18) Perfectly situated within Shawlands is the Granary , a traditional pub serving hearty food and a choice of award-winning ales.
Silo
Definition:
(n.) A pit or vat for packing away green fodder for winter use so as to exclude air and outside moisture. See Ensilage.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is assumed that the dominant fungi may play a part in the etiopathogeny of the bronchial asthma of workers in such silos but investigations should be furthered before reaching a final conclusion.
(2) On the right-hand side of the SRT screen, which all moderators have, there is a menu of options to help them filter content into silos.
(3) Lung diseases in farmers attributable to their occupation include (a) farmer's lung, caused by exposure to mouldy hay, (b) the asthma caused by exposure to grain dust and (c) silo-filler's disease.
(4) But up to now the information gathered by those applications lives in silos.
(5) On Saturday, international activists and local sources said the US-led coalition attacking Isis in Syria had launched strikes on militants attacking Kobani, a town near the Turkish border, and on positions including wheat silos in the east of the country.
(6) Samples of fresh grass, wilted grass prior to and after ensiling in a stack silo and cut with either a cylinder-type forage harvester (11.3 mm of length cut) or a self-loading wagon (42.4 mm of length cut), wilted grass prior to and after ensiling in large round bales, and grass hay were obtained from the same field and used for determination of DM and CP degradability.
(7) Sally Chisholm of the NHS Technology Adoption Centre blamed "budget silos", as narrow funding streams often present financial disincentives to changing the way of working.
(8) Forage was ensiled in 10 900-kg concrete stave silos; 2 per year were assigned to one of five treatments consisting of control, treatment with an enzyme-chemical product, or treatment with one of three different types of lactic acid bacterial inoculants.
(9) A regionalization model based on silos is presented, including functions, strategies and policies.
(10) Alfalfa, red clover, orchardgrass and timothy were harvested in the vegetative stage, wilted and stored as hay, or ensiled in small batch silos (20 kg) at 60, 40 or 20% (direct cut) dry matter and were analyzed for compositional differences.
(11) The Local Coordination Committees, another activist group, said the strikes hit the eastern province of Deir el-Zour as well as Raqqa, and also said the coalition targeted wheat silos west of the eastern city of Deir el-Zour.
(12) Of all the parameters tested for in the questionnaire, those with positive serology differed significantly from the whole population only in that a higher proportion of the positives reported exposure to silo gas and illness after uncapping silos.
(13) Silo-fillers' disease was diagnosed because he had allegedly inhaled yellowish gas in the silo.
(14) But after reports of corruption and mismanagement, thousands of tonnes of unsold rice rotting in silos, and suicides among bankrupted farmers, the scheme fell out of favour.
(15) Construction of an external silo dressing over the intact omphalocele membrane allows complete reduction of the giant omphalocele with enlargement of the abdominal cavity before surgical intervention, so that primary closure of the abdominal wall can be achieved.
(16) To assess the relative merits of primary closure, skin flap coverage, and silo reduction, operative treatment of 106 consecutive infants with gastroschisis was reviewed.
(17) Previously, CERTs worked in a siloed fashion, with limited collaboration between them, McMurdie said.
(18) Established cohorts, such as those in Triana, Lake Michigan sportsfishers, the Michigan PBB cohort, residents of farms with PCB-lined silos, and occupational groups, could all be studied further with attention to these research questions.
(19) These things can’t be treated as if they are in silos.
(20) The BBC Trust chairman said Entwistle was undermined by "disparate silos and warring tribes" during his 54 days in charge at the corporation – some of the same management problems he had hoped to address after being appointed in July.