The word "silo" is an accepted and usable word in written English and can be used to refer to a cylindrical structure designed to store large amounts of grain and other items.
For example, "The farmer built a silo to store the grain he harvested that year."
The owners of the hotel – property developer Remo Stoffel and local quarry entrepreneur Pius Truffer – have today unveiled plans to build the tallest building in Europe right next door, an 80-storey silo stuffed with luxury bedrooms.
"We're all interconnected, we're no longer in a silo," says Malik.
This is often referred to as a vertical silo.
But, partly because Europe's exchanges are becoming publicly quoted companies, the transition from silo to hourglass will be hard.Don Cruickshank, chairman of the London Stock Exchange, hopes that the European competition authorities might look into the subject to ensure not just interoperability but fully equal access.
It is no great surprise that this year's monstrous farm bill was largely the work of Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa.Yet, in one respect, Iowa towers above the rest of America like a silo above the cornfields: democracy.
The exchange shrugs off, and even seems to relish, general hostility to the silo model.
First, some terrible mistakes were made because of the blinkers imposed by the old product-silo approach.
The debate is somewhat redundant, although long-frustrated merger talks between anti-silo London Clearing House and Paris-based Clearnet may hinge on whether Clearnet ceases to be part of a continental silo.The Giovannini group recommends a mixture of market forces and regulation to create open access whether to silos or horizontal systems.
Unlike China's older silo-based strategic missiles, which would have been relatively easy to destroy before launch, the DF-31 can be concealed on the back of a lorry.In this section The law in whose hands?
In the late 20th century, Russia maintained numerous major silo-launched ICBM systems, with the U.S. designations of SS-11, SS-16, SS-17, SS-18, SS-19, SS-20, SS-23, SS-24, and SS-25.
Boeing's work on missiles, which began in 1945, resulted in such weapons as the silo-launched Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile (deployed in 1962) and the AGM-86B/C air-launched cruise missile (deployed in 1982).
