barn
part of speech
noun (barn, barns)
meaning for a pupil
1) A barn is a big farm building for animals, hay, crops or tools. tree →
2) «Barn owls» often live in barns. tree →
3) «Barn dance» is a party with country dancing. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: A storehouse for grain and crops. Interpretation: The blessing in the barns is read as a promise that God will bless the work of one's hands. Rabbis taught that blessing rests on what is hidden from the eye and not counted. In the primary lessons: In school maths: a place where animals or bales are counted; animals going in and out of the barn add and take away. In everyday life and stories: farm visits, «Charlotte's Web» is set in a barn, a red barn. Phrases: «in the barn», «barn owl», «barn dance», «hay barn», «couldn't hit a barn door» (very bad at aiming).
examples
- The LORD will command the blessing with thee in thy barns, and in all that thou puttest thy hand unto; and He will bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. (Torah DEU.28.8, JPS 1917) tree →
- So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy vats shall overflow with new wine. (Writings PRO.3.10, JPS 1917) tree →
- The grains shrivel under their hoes; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered. (Prophets JOL.1.17, JPS 1917) tree →
- is the seed yet in the barn? yea, the vine, and the fig-tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive-tree hath not brought forth — from this day will I bless you.' (Prophets HAG.2.19, JPS 1917) tree →
- There are 24 cows in the barn. tree →
- The barn holds 300 bales of hay. tree →
- 5 horses left the barn. tree →
- How many animals are in the barn? tree →
- The cows sleep in the barn in winter. tree →
- A barn owl lives in the old barn. tree →
- Wilbur the pig lived in a barn in «Charlotte's Web». tree →
- We went to a barn dance at the farm. tree →
- He went out to the barn and got hold of a flail. tree →
note
Countable: «a barn». Maths: a place of the story; animals in = start + came in − left. Trap: legs in the barn depend on which animals.
In the corpora
- The grains shrivel under their hoes; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
- So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy vats shall overflow with new wine.
- Real farm cats are useful mousers that keep mice and rats away from barns full of grain.
- Farmers have other helpers too: ladybirds that eat aphids and barn owls that hunt mice.
- A barn owl family can eat thousands of mice and voles in a year, so farmers put up owl boxes.
Trees and pragmatics
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