Granary vs Warehouse - What's the difference?
granary | warehouse |
(agriculture) A storage facility for grain or sometimes animal feed.
(figuratively) A fertile, grain-growing region.
A place for storing large amounts of products (wares). In logistics, a place where products go to from the manufacturer before going to the retailer.
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* 1894 , United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance, Opinions of Collectors of Customs Concerning Ad Valorem and Specific Rates of Duty on Imports
To confine people to institutions for long-term periods.
As nouns the difference between granary and warehouse
is that granary is a storage facility for grain or sometimes animal feed while warehouse is a place for storing large amounts of products (wares). In logistics, a place where products go to from the manufacturer before going to the retailer.As a verb warehouse is
to store, as in a warehouse.granary
English
(wikipedia granary)Noun
(en-noun)Derived terms
* granary breadSee also
* silo * grain elevatorwarehouse
English
(wikipedia warehouse)Noun
(en noun)Revenge of the nerds, passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}
Derived terms
* warehousemanVerb
(warehous)- Tobacco, for instance, shrinks materially by frequent reshippings, and as all goods are warehoused as a convenience to importers, duties should be paid on what the importer receives.
