silo
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
business
computing
engineering
government
informatics
lifestyle
management
mathematics
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
war
Etymology: From Spanish silo, of unclear origin. See Spanish silo for more.
Inflected forms:
form: silos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: siloes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: siloes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: silos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: siloing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: siloed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: siloed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A vertical building, usually cylindrical, used for the production of silage.
pos: noun
gloss: From the shape, a building used for the storage of grain.
pos: noun
gloss: An underground bunker used to hold missiles which may be launched.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: An organizational unit that has poor interaction with other units, negatively affecting overall performance.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
informal
examples: 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.
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.
"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.
gloss: A structure in the information system that is poorly networked with other structures, with data exchange hampered.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
informal
examples: Our networking is organized in silos, and employees lose time manually transferring data.
gloss: A group of like-minded individuals who are not exposed to outside opinions or input.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
gloss: In Microsoft Windows operating systems, a kernel object for isolating groups of threads.
pos: noun
gloss: To store in a silo.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To separate; to isolate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
Sheel Mohnot, a venture capitalist friend of Bi’s who has commissioned twiblings, said the problem is that information is siloed when “each agency has their own database of wombs.”
Derived words: bag silo
desilo
missile silo
sack silo
silo bag
siloisation
siloism
siloization
silolike
silometer
silo truck
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