Warehouse vs. Barn — What's the Difference?

A warehouse is a building for storing goods. Warehouses are used by manufacturers, importers, exporters, wholesalers, transport businesses, customs, etc.

A barn is an agricultural building usually on farms and used for various purposes. In North America, a barn refers to structures that house livestock, including cattle and horses, as well as equipment and fodder, and often grain.

A large building where raw materials or manufactured goods may be stored prior to their distribution for sale.

A large building for sheltering livestock, storing hay or other agricultural products, or housing equipment used for operating a farm.

Store (goods) in a warehouse

A large shed for the housing of vehicles, such as railroad cars.

Place (a prisoner or a psychiatric patient) in a large, impersonal institution in which their problems are not satisfactorily addressed

A particularly large, typically bare building

A place in which goods or merchandise are stored; a storehouse.

Abbr. b(Physics) A unit of area equal to 10-24 square centimeters, used to measure cross sections in nuclear physics.

A large, usually wholesale shop.

(agriculture) A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.

To place or store in a warehouse, especially in a bonded or government warehouse.

(nuclear physics) A unit of surface area equal to 10⁻²⁸ square metres.

To institutionalize (a person) in usually deficient housing and in conditions in which medical, educational, psychiatric, and social services are below par or absent

An arena.

A place for storing large amounts of products. In logistics, a place where products go to from the manufacturer before going to the retailer.

(slang) A warm and cozy place, especially a bedroom; a roost.

(transitive) To store in a warehouse or similar.

A child.

(transitive) To confine (a person) to an institution for a long period.

(transitive) To lay up in a barn.

To acquire and then shelve, simply to prevent competitors from acquiring it.

A covered building used chiefly for storing grain, hay, and other productions of a farm. In the United States a part of the barn is often used for stables.

A storehouse for wares, or goods.

A child. See Bairn.

To deposit or secure in a warehouse.

To lay up in a barn.

To place in the warehouse of the government or customhouse stores, to be kept until duties are paid.

An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals

A storehouse for goods and merchandise

(physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter

Store in a warehouse