silo

See also: šilo, silo-, Silo, siło, sílo, and шило

English

Grain silos.

Etymology

From Spanish silo, of unclear origin. See Spanish silo for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪloʊ/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɪləʊ
• Rhymes: -iːləʊ

Noun

silo (plural silos)

1. (agriculture) A vertical building, usually cylindrical, used for the storage of grain.
2. (military) An underground bunker used to hold missiles which may be launched.
3. (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.

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

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

5. (derogatory, slang) A self-enclosed group of like-minded individuals.

Derived terms

• bag silo
• sack silo
• siloization
• silolike

Translations

vertical building for storing grain

• Arabic: صَوْمَعَة f (ṣawmaʕa)
• Armenian: սիլոս (hy) (silos)
• Bulgarian: силоз m (siloz)
• Catalan: sitja (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 筒倉／筒仓 (tǒngcāng), 筒仓 (tǒngcāng), 糧倉／粮仓 (zh) (liángcāng), 粮仓 (zh) (liángcāng)

• Czech: silo (cs) n
• Finnish: siilo (fi), viljasiilo (fi)
• French: silo (fr) m
• Galician: silo m
• German: Silo (de) m, Kornspeicher (de) m
• Hungarian: siló (hu)
• Indonesian: silo (id)
• Japanese: サイロ (ja) (sairo)
• Korean: 사일로 (saillo)
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• Macedonian: силос m (silos)
• Malay: silo
• Maori: pātaka pata
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: silo m

  Nynorsk: silo m

• Persian: سیلو (fa) (silu)
• Portuguese: silo (pt) m
• Romanian: siloz (ro) n
• Russian: си́лос (ru) m (sílos), элева́тор (ru) m (elevátor), си́лосная ба́шня f (sílosnaja bášnja), зернохрани́лище (ru) n (zernoxranílišče) (granary)
• Serbo-Croatian: silos (sh) m
• Spanish: silo (es) m
• Swedish: silo (sv) c
• Turkish: görür (tr)

underground bunker

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 发射井 (zh) (fāshèjǐng)

• Czech: silo (cs) n
• German: Raketensilo (de) m or n
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• Hungarian: rakétasiló
• Russian: ста́ртовая ша́хта f (stártovaja šáxta), раке́тная ша́хта f (rakétnaja šáxta)
• Serbo-Croatian: podzemni silos m
• Spanish: silo (es) m

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• French: ^{(please verify)} silo (fr)
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Verb

silo (third-person singular simple present silos, present participle siloing, simple past and past participle siloed)

1. (transitive) To store in a silo.

Synonyms

• ensile

See also

• grain elevator
• granary

Anagrams

• LOIs, Lois, Sol I, oils, soil, soli

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Czech

Etymology

From Spanish silo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɪlo]

Noun

silo n

1. silo (vertical building for storing grain)

Verb

silo

1. neuter singular past participle of sít

   Synonym: selo

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French

Etymology

From Spanish silo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.lo/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

silo m (plural silos)

1. silo (vertical building for storing grain)
2. silo (underground missile facility)

Further reading

• “silo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• lois

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Italian

Etymology

From Spanish silo.

Noun

silo m (plural sili)

1. silo (vertical building for storing grain)
2. silo (underground missile facility)

Anagrams

• liso, lisò, soli

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Spanish silo.

Noun

silo m (definite singular siloen, indefinite plural siloer, definite plural siloene)

1. a silo

Derived terms

• kornsilo

References

• “silo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Spanish silo.

Noun

silo m (definite singular siloen, indefinite plural siloar, definite plural siloane)

1. a silo

Derived terms

• kornsilo

References

• “silo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Spanish silo.

Noun

silo m (plural silos)

1. (agriculture) silo (vertical building for storing grain)
2. (military) silo (underground missile facility)

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

silo (Cyrillic spelling сило)

1. vocative singular of sila

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Spanish

Etymology

Of unclear origin. Perhaps from Latin sirum, the accusative form of sirus (“pit for corn, underground granary”) (compare Latin sīromastes (“pit-searcher”), from Ancient Greek σειρομάστης (seiromástēs)), from Ancient Greek σιρός (sirós, “pit for holding grain”). Alternatively, perhaps from Basque zilo, zulo (“grain cellar”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi.lo/

Noun

silo m (plural silos)

1. (agriculture, military) silo

Descendants

• English: silo

See also

• cilla
• granero
• hórreo
• pósito
• troj

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Swazi

Noun

sílo class 7 (plural tílo class 8)

1. lion

Inflection

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