Bin vs. Silo — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Bin and Silo
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Bin
A container or enclosed space for storage.
Silo
A silo (from the Greek σιρός – siros, "pit for holding grain") is a structure for storing bulk materials. Silos are used in agriculture to store grain (see grain elevators) or fermented feed known as silage.
Bin
To place or store in a bin.
Silo
A usually tall cylindrical structure, typically next to a barn, in which silage is produced and stored.
Bin
A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
A corn bin
A wine bin
A coal bin
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Silo
Any of several other structures or containers used for the same purpose, such as a covered trench or a polyethylene bag.
Bin
A container for rubbish or waste.
A rubbish bin
A wastepaper bin
An ashes bin
Silo
An underground shelter for a missile, usually equipped to launch the missile or to raise it into a launching position.
Bin
(statistics) Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc
Silo
Each of the various departments, groups, or processes within a business or organization where work is done in isolation apart from the others.
Bin
Any of the fixed-size chunks into which airspace is divided for the purposes of radar.
Silo
To store in a silo.
Bin
Jail or prison.
Silo
To isolate (a department, group, or process) within a business or organization from others
“Taking a cue from the finance world, he divided the company's departments into 30 distinct units, meaning that the shoe department was siloed from, say, the menswear department” (Gaby Del Valle).
Bin
(in Arabic names) son of; equivalent to Hebrew tr=ben.
Silo
(agriculture) A vertical building, usually cylindrical, used for the production of silage.
Bin
(computing) binary
Silo
(agriculture) from the shape, a building used for the storage of grain.
Bin
To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.
Silo
(military) An underground bunker used to hold missiles which may be launched.
Bin
To throw away, reject, give up.
Silo
An organizational unit that has poor interaction with other units, negatively affecting overall performance.
Bin
(statistics) To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
Silo
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.
Bin
(transitive) To place into a bin for storage.
To bin wine
Silo
A self-enclosed group of like-minded individuals.
Bin
Alternative form of been
Silo
(computing) In Microsoft Windows operating systems, a kernel object for isolating groups of threads.
Bin
A box, frame, crib, or inclosed place, used as a receptacle for any commodity; as, a corn bin; a wine bin; a coal bin.
Silo
(transitive) To store in a silo.
Bin
To put into a bin; as, to bin wine.
Silo
(transitive) To separate; to isolate.
Bin
An old form of Be and Been.
Silo
A pit or vat for packing away green fodder for winter use so as to exclude air and outside moisture. See Ensilage.
Bin
A container; usually has a lid
Silo
A cylindrical tower used for storing silage
Bin
The quantity contained in a bin
Silo
Military installation consisting of an underground structure where ballistic missiles can be stored and fired
Bin
An identification number consisting of a two-part code assigned to banks and savings associations; the first part shows the location and the second identifies the bank itself
Bin
Store in bins
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