What does Yard mean?
Definitions for Yard
yɑrdyard
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Yard.
Princeton's WordNet
yard, pacenoun
a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride
yard, grounds, curtilagenoun
the enclosed land around a house or other building
"it was a small house with almost no yard"
yardnoun
a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings)
"they opened a repair yard on the edge of town"
thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, thou, yardnoun
the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
cubic yard, yardnoun
a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)
yardnoun
a tract of land where logs are accumulated
yard, railway yard, railyardnoun
an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines
yardnoun
a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen
yardnoun
an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)
Wiktionary
Yardnoun
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Yardnoun
Jamaica
Etymology: gerd, from West. Cognate with Dutch gard, German Gerte.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Yardnoun
Etymology: geard , Saxon.
One of the lions leaped down into a neighbour’s yard, where, nothing regarding the crowing of the cocks, he eat them up. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours.
Xanthus one day sent Æsop into the yard, and bade him look well about him. Roger L'Estrange.
His wanton kids with budding horns prepar’d,
Fight harmless battles in his homely yard. Dryden.A peer, a counsellor, and a judge, are not to be measured by the common yard, but by the pole of special grace. Francis Bacon.
The arms, spread cross in a straight line, and measured from one end of the long finger on one hand, to that of the other; made a measure equal to the stature, and is named a fathom. Half of that, viz. from the end of the long finger of either arm, so spread, to the middle of the breast is, with us, called a yard. William Holder, on Time.
An aqueduct of a Gothick structure, that conveys water from mount St. Francis to Spoletto, from the foundation of the lowest arch to the top, is two hundred and thirty yards. Add.
A breeze from shore began to blow;
The sailors ship their oars, and cease to row;
Then hoist their yards a-trip, and all their sails
Let fall to court the wind. Dryden.
Wikipedia
Yard
The yard (symbol: yd) is an English unit of length in both the British imperial and US customary systems of measurement equalling 3 feet or 36 inches. Since 1959 it has been by international agreement standardized as exactly 0.9144 meter. A distance of 1,760 yards is equal to 1 mile. The US survey yard is very slightly longer.
Webster Dictionary
Yardverb
a rod; a stick; a staff
Yardverb
a branch; a twig
Yardverb
a long piece of timber, as a rafter, etc
Yardverb
a measure of length, equaling three feet, or thirty-six inches, being the standard of English and American measure
Yardverb
the penis
Yardverb
a long piece of timber, nearly cylindrical, tapering toward the ends, and designed to support and extend a square sail. A yard is usually hung by the center to the mast. See Illust. of Ship
Yardnoun
an inclosure; usually, a small inclosed place in front of, or around, a house or barn; as, a courtyard; a cowyard; a barnyard
Yardnoun
an inclosure within which any work or business is carried on; as, a dockyard; a shipyard
Yardverb
to confine (cattle) to the yard; to shut up, or keep, in a yard; as, to yard cows
Etymology: [OE. yerd, AS. gierd, gyrd, a rod, stick, a measure, a yard; akin to OFries. ierde, OS. gerda, D. garde, G. gerte, OHG. gartia, gerta, gart, Icel. gaddr a goad, sting, Goth. gazds, and probably to L. hasta a spear. Cf. Gad, n., Gird, n., Gride, v. i., Hastate.]
Wikidata
Yard
A yard is a unit of length in several different systems including United States customary units, Imperial units and the former English units. It is equal to 3 feet or 36 inches. Under an agreement in 1959 between Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States, the yard was legally defined to be exactly 0.9144 metres. Prior to that date, the legal definition of the yard when expressed in terms of metric units varied slightly from country to country.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Yard
yärd, n. an English measure of 3 feet or 36 inches: a long beam on a mast for spreading square sails: the penis.—ns. Yard′-arm, either half of a ship's yard (right or left) from the centre to the end; Yard′stick, a stick 3 feet long, any standard of measurement—also Yard′wand. [A.S. gyrd, gierd, a rod, measure; Dut. garde, Ger. gerte; further conn. with Goth. gazds, a stick, L. hasta, a spear.]
Yard
yärd, n. an enclosed place, esp. near a building, as 'prison-yard,' or where any special work is carried on, as 'brick-yard,' 'wood-yard,' 'dock-yard,' 'navy-yard:' a garden.—v.t. to enclose in a yard.—ns. Yard′age, the use of a yard, or the charge made for such: the cutting of coal at so much per yard; Yard′-land, the amount of land held by a tenant in villeinage, in older English usage, varying from 15 to 40 acres; Yard′man, the person having special charge of a farm-yard: one employed in a railway-yard in making up trains, &c.; Yard′-mas′ter, one who has the special oversight of a railway-yard. [A.S. geard, hedge, enclosure; Ger. garten; conn. with L. hortus, Gr. chortos.]
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
yard
A measure of length, consisting of 3 feet.
yard
[Anglo-Saxon gyrde]. A long cylindrical timber suspended upon the mast of a vessel to spread a sail. They are termed square, lateen, or lug: the first are suspended across the masts at right angles, and the two latter obliquely. The square yards taper from the middle, which is called the slings, towards the extremities, which are termed the yard-arms; and the distance between is divided by the artificers into quarters, called the first, second, third quarters, and yard-arms. The middle quarters are formed into eight sides, and each of the end parts is figured like the frustum of a cone: on the alternate sides of the octagon, in large spars, oak battens are brought on and hooped, so as to strengthen, and yet not greatly increase, the weight.--To brace the yards. To traverse them about the masts, so as to form greater or lesser angles with the ship's length. (See BRACE.)--To square the yards. (See SQUARE.)
Suggested Resources
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
YARD
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Yard is ranked #17159 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Yard surname appeared 1,651 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Yard.
74.2% or 1,225 total occurrences were White.
16.2% or 268 total occurrences were Black.
7% or 117 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1.2% or 21 total occurrences were of two or more races.
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Yard' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3216
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Yard' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2093
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Yard' in Nouns Frequency: #675
Anagrams for Yard »
adry
dray
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Yard in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Yard in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of Yard in a Sentence
A man was murdered, buried in his own back yard, had his property stolen and probably his bank accounts drained from somebody from what I understand was trying to help.
Germany Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel:
What's not going to happen is to follow a 'not-in-my-back yard' principle, that won't work. We'll try to use existing routes and underground cables. What we can't do is to move routes to Hesse and Baden-Wuerttenberg.
Someone had( stolen) my son's bicycle out of the front yard, and my husband said,' I'm going to get cameras for the house,'.
There are no coffins here, nothing, people would be wrapped in a piece of cloth and buried in the yard like dogs.
As more than 4,000 people in the state have been encouraged to self-quarantine, a Queens man who drives for taxi or ride-hailing services tested positive after showing up to a St. Johns Episcopal Hospital, which prompted 40 doctors and nurses to self-quarantine, meaning the staff will have to be replaced in the meantime, ABC 14 reports. MAJOR UNIVERSITIES CLOSE CLASSROOMS AMID CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK Cuomo complained, however, that many New Yorkers are not following the self-quarantine requirements, but hesays thestate of emergency declaration will free up $ 30 millionused for testing and the purchase of protective gear for healthcare workers. The governor warned storescould lose their licenses for price gouging items like hand sanitizer, one he said was selling it for $ 80 per bottle. Cuomo, who earlier described the virus as like a flu on steroids, also emphasized that more people are dying from the fluthan dying from coronavirus. In this March 3, 2020, file photo, Metropolitan Transportation Authority worker sanitizes surfaces at the Coney Island Yard, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. ( AP) Metropolitan Transportation Authority worker referenced a New Rochelle lawyer, who commuted to work in Midtown via Metro-North before Metropolitan Transportation Authority worker fell ill and became the states second case earlier in the week. Since then, the mans wife and two of his children, a 14-year-old daughterand 20-year-old son, have tested positive, as did a neighbor who drove him to the hospital. CLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE The patient is believed to have contracted the virus in Westchester County and not through travel. Multiple members of The Young Israel of New Rochelle synagogue, where the man worships, have also tested positive. CORONAVIRUS CONFIRMED CASES AND FATALITIES, STATE BY STATE Cuomo said the state is reconsidering how to address the quarantine period for people in Westchester County who are quarantined after coming in contact with people who have tested positive, to apply to their last contact with other people. The quarantine period is typically 14 days after last contact. WHAT STATES HAVE DECLARED CORONAVIRUS EMERGENCIES ? Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont announced a second New York state resident who works in the state testing positive for the virus. This most recent case of another New York resident who works in Connecticut testing positive for COVID-19 shows us what we already know coronavirus is here and viruses dont stop at state borders.
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- حديقةArabic
- двор, ярд, дворыкBelarusian
- двор, ярдBulgarian
- iardaCatalan, Valencian
- yard, dvorek, dvůrCzech
- gårdDanish
- HofGerman
- abɔEwe
- αυλή, γιάρδαGreek
- vergo, stango, korto, jardoEsperanto
- patio, yardaSpanish
- õuEstonian
- satku, huntti, jaardi, tarha, tanko, raaka, sauva, puomi, pihaFinnish
- jardin, cour, yard, vergeFrench
- clós, cleith, slatIrish
- גַּןHebrew
- udvarHungarian
- յարդ, բակArmenian
- yard, cortile, iardaItalian
- 置き場, ヤード, 庭Japanese
- იარდიGeorgian
- 울안, 뜰, 마당Korean
- āreaLatin
- kiemasLithuanian
- pagalmsLatvian
- дворMacedonian
- elaMalay
- ra, erfDutch
- yardNorwegian
- jard, reja, podwórze, podwórkoPolish
- jarda, quintal, pátio, cercadoPortuguese
- vergăRomanian
- дворик, ярд, рея, дворRussian
- а̀влија, dvòrīšte, àvlija, дво̀рӣштеSerbo-Croatian
- dvorSlovak
- dvoriščeSlovene
- gardhAlbanian
- gård, trädgård, tomt, råSwedish
- முற்றத்தில்Tamil
- గజంTelugu
- avluTurkish
- ярд, двір, дворикUkrainian
- sânVietnamese
- yadVolapük
- coûWalloon
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