Barn vs. Workshop: What's the Difference?
Barn and Workshop Definitions
Barn
A large building for sheltering livestock, storing hay or other agricultural products, or housing equipment used for operating a farm.
Workshop
A room, area, or small establishment where manual or light industrial work is done.
Barn
A large shed for the housing of vehicles, such as railroad cars.
Workshop
An educational seminar or series of meetings emphasizing interaction and exchange of information among a usually small number of participants
A creative writing workshop.
Barn
A particularly large, typically bare building
Lived in a barn of a country house.
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Workshop
To create or revise (a drama or literary work) based on suggestions or criticism from a group of collaborators.
Barn
Abbr. b(Physics) A unit of area equal to 10-24 square centimeters, used to measure cross sections in nuclear physics.
Workshop
A room, especially one which is not particularly large, used for manufacturing or other light industrial work.
Barn
(agriculture) A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
Workshop
A brief, intensive course of education for a small group, emphasizing interaction and practical problem solving.
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Barn
(nuclear physics) A unit of surface area equal to 10−28 square metres.
Workshop
An academic conference.
Barn
An arena.
Maple Leaf Gardens was a grand old barn.
Workshop
(transitive) To help a playwright revise a draft of (a play) by rehearsing it with actors and critiquing the results.
Barn
(slang) A warm and cozy place, especially a bedroom; a roost.
Workshop
(transitive) To work on or revise something, especially collaboratively, in a workshop.
Barn
A child.
Workshop
To improve through collaboration.
Barn
(transitive) To lay up in a barn.
Workshop
A shop where any manufacture or handiwork is carried on.
Barn
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.
Workshop
Small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done
Barn
A child. See Bairn.
Workshop
A brief intensive course for a small group; emphasizes problem solving
Barn
To lay up in a barn.
Men . . . often barn up the chaff, and burn up the grain.
Barn
An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals
Barn
(physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter
