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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
silo
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
missile
▪ Military officials may also be interested because at this resolution the craft can pick out features such as missile silos.
▪ Sixteen digesters rose sixty feet like a bank of missile silos.
▪ The first solution to this dilemma was to harden existing Minuteman missile silos.
▪ Wives of rocket forces troops in Siberia blocked the road to the missile silos in 1998 to protest unpaid wages.
▪ Vital strategic sites, such as fields of missile silos, would be protected by ground-based systems, which would hit incoming warheads.
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▪ Also, when decisions based on that analysis process are made, they get implemented rather than lost in the functional silos.
▪ In modern mills, grain is stored in silos which are often separate from the mill and near to a bulk intake point.
▪ It had a capacity of 20,000 tons in timber silos and was taken over by the Commissioners in 1906.
▪ Place in preheated oven and bake until silo is crisp and brown, about 30 minutes.
▪ Sixteen digesters rose sixty feet like a bank of missile silos.
▪ The first solution to this dilemma was to harden existing Minuteman missile silos.
▪ The same issues are worked more successfully by breaking up those functional silos.
▪ These homes were like an unsavoury silo, places to store people rather than house them.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Silo

Silo \Si"lo\, n. [F.] A pit or vat for packing away green fodder for winter use so as to exclude air and outside moisture. See Ensilage.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
silo

1835, from Spanish silo, traditionally derived from Latin sirum (nominative sirus), from Greek siros "a pit to keep corn in." "The change from r to l in Spanish is abnormal and Greek siros was a rare foreign term peculiar to regions of Asia Minor and not likely to emerge in Castilian Spain" [Barnhart]. Alternatively, the Spanish word is from a pre-Roman Iberian language word represented by Basque zilo, zulo "dugout, cave or shelter for keeping grain." Meaning "underground housing and launch tube for a guided missile" is attested from 1958.

Wiktionary
silo

n. 1 (context agriculture English) A vertical building, usually circular, used for the storage of grain. 2 (context military English) An underground bunker used to hold missiles which may be launched. 3 (context pejorative management English) An organizational unit that has poor interaction with other units, negatively affecting overall performance. 4 (context pejorative informatics English) A structure in the information system that is poorly networked with other structures, with data exchange hampered. vb. (context transitive English) To store in a silo.

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WordNet
silo

  1. n. a cylindrical tower used for storing silage

  2. military installation consisting of an underground structure where ballistic missiles can be stored and fired

Gazetteer
Silo, OK -- U.S. town in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 282
Housing Units (2000): 114
Land area (2000): 0.520196 sq. miles (1.347302 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.520196 sq. miles (1.347302 sq. km)
FIPS code: 67550
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 34.037219 N, 96.475645 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Silo, OK
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Wikipedia
Silo (disambiguation)

A silo is a structure for storing bulk materials.

Silo or SILO may refer to:

Šilo

'''Šilo ''' is a village in the north-east of the island of Krk, Croatia, population 384 (census 2011). It is one of the tourist centers of the Dobrinj municipality.

SILO (boot loader)

The SPARC Improved bootLOader (SILO) is the bootloader used by the SPARC port of the Linux operating system; it can also be used for Solaris as a replacement for the standard Solaris boot loader.

SILO generally looks similar to the basic version of LILO, giving a "boot:" prompt, at which the user can press the Tab key to see the available images to boot. The configuration file format is reasonably similar to LILO's, as well as some of the command-line options. However, SILO differs significantly from LILO because it reads and parses the configuration file at boot time, so it is not necessary to re-run it after every change to the file or to the installed kernel images. SILO is able to access ext2, ext3, ext4, UFS, romfs and ISO 9660 file systems, enabling it to boot arbitrary kernels from them (more similar to GRUB).

SILO also has support for transparent decompression of gzipped vmlinux images, making the bzImage format unnecessary on SPARC Linux.

SILO is loaded from the SPARC PROM.

Licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Silo (store)

Silo was an electronics retailer that opened in 1947 and operated throughout the United States, and closed in 1995. The western region stores were known for a number of years as "Downings" in Colorado and "Appliance-TV City" in Arizona and California.

Silo (software)

Silo is a polygon/ subdivision surfaces 3D modeling application created by Nevercenter. It has a focus on quick editing, a customizable interface (all mouse buttons and keyboard shortcuts can be assigned to any function), and a flexible workflow.

Silo 2, released in August 2007, added a high-polygon sculpting mode for creating normal maps and displacement maps, as well as improved texture mapping tools and scene management tools. Version 2.1 was released on August 13, 2008.

Silo (series)

Silo is a series of science fiction novellas, also available as a single novel, by American writer Hugh Howey.

Silo (library)

Silo is a computer data format and library developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) for storing rectilinear, curvilinear, unstructured, or point meshes in 2D and 3D. It supports data upon those meshes, including scalar, vector, and tensor variables; volume fraction-based materials; and mass fraction-based species. It fully supports block structured adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) meshes by way of mesh blocks structured in a hierarchy. Silo sits on top of other low-level storage libraries such as PDB, NetCDF, and HDF5.

Currently, VisIt, an open source software package with its start at LLNL, supports the Silo format for visualization and analysis, among many other formats.

As of Version 4.8, July, 2010, the Silo source code is now available under the standard BSD Open Source License.

The source code for two compression libraries which have been part of previous releases of the Silo library is not available under the terms of the BSD Open Source license. These are the Hzip and FPzip compression libraries.

For this reason, two different releases of the Silo source code are made available.

Usage examples of "silo".

It was built to exactly the same set of specifications used for the control capsules of Minuteman silos - easy enough, since Maclntyre had constructed most of those.

In class Major Staley lectured on the firststrike survival capability of our nuclear arsenal, ranging from the landbased Minuteman and Titan missile silos to the nuclearpowered Polaris submarine missilelaunching fleet to the more than five hundred combatready bombers of the Strategic Air Command.

In the deep violet shadow of some crumbling grain silos near Gridley the panzer sweeps out of the darkness and scares the bejesus out of the sleeping kid in the cab of the fuel truck.

The panzer hurls itself above the rise again and skates along the edge of the red glare cast by the scattered chopper, heading for the spire of a silo in the distance.

They issued the chits from their booth in the Porticus Metelli on the Campus Martius, but the grain itself was stored in huge silos lining the cliffs of the Aventine along the Vicus Portae Trigeminae at the Port of Rome.

Dead Sea, they found the sulphur extraction plant, a town-sized site encompassing hundreds of square miles of piping, chemical tanks, mineral silos, transport vehicles, all visible, and a nuclear reactor with a fissionable center under twenty feet of prestressed, reinforced concrete, buried invisibly deep beneath the desert sand.

It was entirely feasible that a missile aimed at, say, a missile silo in North Dakota might have strayed a few hundred miles and instead obliterated a grazing herd of pronghorn antelope in South Dakota.

All in all, it constituted a much safer refuge than most of the barns, silos, junkyards, burnt-out warehouses, pigsties, toolsheds, cemeteries, abandoned cars, freeway ramps, groves, thickets, culverts, and swamps where the quintet had rested days during its eighteen-month march from the Far West to the Atlantic.

After the debacle of the attempted storming of Silo Nine and the purges that followed, what remained of the underground lived from moment to moment, and tended to be even more paranoid than it used to.

Beyond that is a pine forest in which is hidden a very sophisticated phased-array radar site that is the command center for all the Soviet antiballistic missile silos around Moscow.

Ramon Korbuscek, desperate to retrieve the device he had planted inside Euterpe, threw open the door to the missile silo and stepped out onto the catwalk.

Silo in the planning of full Roman citizenship for the Italians, but it now appeared his complacence had been mistaken.

Perhaps, thought Silo sadly, this is one of the reasons why so many Romans say we Italians can never be Romans.

I glanced up and saw speckles of sunlight through what may have been a temporary wooden roof some thirty meters higher and realized that this tower was little more than a glorified grain silo -- a giant stone cylinder sixty meters tall.

I well remember the night the Governor told me he was going to announce his controversial demand that the federal government remove all Muscleman missile silos from Idaho and that the state be declared a nuclear-free zone.