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Silo vs Splo - What's the difference?

silo | splo |

As nouns the difference between silo and splo

is that silo is silo while splo is (slang) illegally produced liquor; moonshine.

silo

English

(wikipedia silo)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (agriculture) A vertical building, usually circular, used for the storage of grain.
  • (military) An underground bunker used to hold missiles which may be launched.
  • (pejorative, management) An organizational unit that has poor interaction with other units, negatively affecting overall performance.
  • * 2006 , Albert J. Mills, Jean C. Helms Mills, John Bratton, Organizational Behaviour in a Global Context , Page 116
    • A silo is created when members in one department or function do not interact with those in another department, even though there might be operational benefits to the interaction.
  • (pejorative, informatics) A structure in the information system that is poorly networked with other structures, with data exchange hampered.
    • Our networking is organized in silos, and employees lose time manually transferring data.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To store in a silo.

    • Synonyms

    * ensile

    See also

    * grain elevator * granary

    Anagrams

    * ----

    splo

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (slang) Illegally produced liquor; moonshine.
  • * 2007 , Matthew B. Rowley, Moonshine! , Sterling Publishing Company, page 70:
    • Packed in one-gallon plastic milk jugs, it's shipped to eastern cities such as Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Miami and New York. Once there, the splo (short for the explosion in one's head after drinking some) sells in shot houses by the glass at enormous profit.
  • * 2003 , Amberjack Rice, New Roots , Album notes from the CD:
    • He originally learned to play music in a splo house (an illegal bar with a still in the basement) spending many weekends playing till the sun came up or the cops came, whatever happened first.
  • * 1999 , Jack Neely, Not So Tall Tales , Weekly Wire, http://weeklywire.com/ww/01-25-99/knox_cover.html:
    • Maybe two or three times a month we get a call from someone who says they've heard there's a secret subterranean city beneath Gay Street, that it's perfectly preserved with turn-of-the-century storefronts, that homeless people, drug dealers, and sundry gnomes live down there and drink splo and shoot dice, and that Metro Pulse should look into it.