silos in English

noun

1

a tower or pit on a farm used to store grain.

Just as I imagined it, with cows everywhere and lots of farms, silos , grain elevators, lakes - the whole nine yards.

2

an underground chamber in which a guided missile is kept ready for firing.

This system allowed Looking Glass to transmit launch codes to the intercontinental ballistic missiles in their underground silos should ground launch control centers become disabled.

3

a system, process, department, etc. that operates in isolation from others.

it's vital that team members step out of their silos and start working together

verb

1

isolate (one system, process, department, etc.) from others.

most companies have expensive IT systems they have developed over the years, but they are siloed

Use "silos" in a sentence

1. Silos of metal

2. Silos, not of metal

3. Technology breaks silos.

4. Now, silos are understandable.

5. Schools can't be silos.

6. Cross-team collaboration impacted by silos

7. J&D Stanriv silos are 100% aluminium silos supported by a carbon steel support structure or skirt.

8. identify the silos or lots of storage

9. Feed silos, cattle boxes of metal

10. They look like floating grain silos.

11. We blend it in 50,000-lb. blending silos.

12. Obviously it is not completely in silos.

13. They're gonna detonate them in their silos.

14. 100 to 200 vessels lie directly by the silos.

15. Silos and storage structures, all being non-metallic

16. You know, it's a silo, people in silos.

17. In our silos, we can get things done.

18. Metal hot mix asphalt storage silos and aggregate storage bins

19. Suuronen also designed grain silos, sheds and town plans.

20. the unit of measurement of the quantities (lots, batches, vats/silos

21. Prefabricated and transportable silos of steel for agricultural and horticultural products

22. Now, this is often referred to as the problem of silos.

23. Claudius Peters stockyards, pneumatic conveyors, silos, clinker coolers, grinding mills, and packing

24. Pursuit of that strategy might inadvertently erect new geographical ‘silos’, or reinforce existing ones.

25. If you don't have enough silos or refineries the rest will go to waste.

26. Bocks can be used to buy common research, housing, silos, and vehicles

27. He reiterated the need to break silos among academic and research institutions.

28. We are still waiting, tweaking away, in silos rather than working together.

29. In silos, material is fed through the top and removed from the bottom.

30. He said that silos are a big bottleneck in the functioning of the Union Government.

31. But breaking of silos and information sharing among states can help make everyone more secure.

32. 11 Its system consists of two silos filled with a pulverised rock such as gravel.

33. There we saw the huge silos of a grain harbor that was built in 1840.

34. Thousands of these messengers of death hide beneath the ground in concrete silos.

35. He said these teams had successfully broken silos, and presented fresh ideas and suggestions.

36. If we don't unload it soon, the grain will start rotting in the silos.

37. Different departments tend to work in silos—each department seems to [be] a government in itself.

38. The way to break down the silos is to get inter- operability between social networking sites.

39. On the power sector, the Prime Minister emphasized the importance of breaking silos, and finding solutions.

40. Applications : Oil and chemical industries, grain silos, alcohol and spirits, sugar mills, paint shops, fertilizer plant.

41. The way to break down the silos is to get inter-operability between social networking sites.

42. More than 20 silos were uncovered from this era, included one with carbonized wheat.

43. The Prime Minister said that silos are now being replaced by an emphasis on solutions.

44. Artifacts found nearby enabled archaeologists to date the silos to between 1630 and 1520 B.C.E.

45. The new city had huge silos for storage of salt, containing up to 13,000 tons.

46. Fluidisation pads of metal for silos, cisterns, tanks, hoppers, packaging machines, dosing plants and material agitators

47. Approval of silos and warehouses as referred to in paragraph 1 shall be given only for:

48. Typically, this data exists in its own "information silo," unaffected and uninformed by the data in other silos.

49. Rental and management of storage space, warehouse space, silos, bulk storage units and storage areas for liquids

50. Microsoft's culture at the time was one of silos and internal competition -- not exactly conducive to learning.